Toowoomba
Daughter left to die: This is the unseen footage
Questioned for hours by homicide detectives, a devout mother said she hoped her lifeless daughter would stand up in front of the paramedics and say, “What are you doing here?”
- Cloe Read
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Lehrmann’s lawyers to seek judge-only trial in Queensland rape case
Bruce Lehrmann was last year committed to stand trial over allegations he raped a woman he met at a Toowoomba nightclub on a drug-fuelled night in 2021.
- Cloe Read
RNA fights back as Toowoomba makes bid to host Olympic sport
The RNA Showgrounds has launched its bid to prevent Toowoomba claiming hosting rights for Olympic equestrian events in 2032, after the Darling Downs city formally sought an upgrade of its showgrounds.
- Cameron Atfield
Man jailed for life over toddler’s torture and murder
A man who murdered a two-year-old girl after inflicting severe physical abuse and punishments has been jailed for life.
- Rex Martinich
Father cries as church group accused of killing girl gives closing submissions
On Friday the congregation, known as “the Saints”, told a judge the allegations against the members were false, and that they believed the girl would be healed by God.
- Cloe Read
Church group on trial had ‘common’ goal to stop girl’s insulin, judge rules
The justice was shown thousands of text messages and emails exchanged between two or more of the defendants in the months leading up to the eight-year-old’s death.
- Rex Martinich
Prosecution rests in church trial over child’s death
Prosecutors have completed presenting evidence after nearly seven weeks of hearings. All 14 defendants are self-represented and have refused to enter pleas.
- Rex Martinich
‘Great pain’ not enough to require help for dying girl
A woman accused of killing eight-year-old Elizabeth Struhs by withholding her medication would not have called an ambulance even if the girl was in obvious pain, a judge has heard.
- Rex Martinich
‘Just Satan having his last go’: Text messages as girl lay dying
Crown prosecutors have taken Justice Martin Burns through more than 5400 text messages exchanged by members of a religious group as Elizabeth Struhs died.
- Rex Martinich
Church group in girl’s death trial claims ‘persecution’
“This isn’t really a trial about murder of a child as it is religious persecution.”
- Rex Martinich
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