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News by Hayden Johnson Premium Content   Paedophile safety is being prioritised above community concerns while the State Government stands firm on its refusal to sign up to a National Child Sex Offenders Register, a Coalition MP has declared. The Queensland Government is yet to throw its support behind the Morrison Governments $7.8m register - which would reveal an offenders name, photograph, nature of offending and general locality - citing a lack of e...

Premium Content Subscriber only It is part of human nature to protect children from the evils that lurk in the shadows. Perhaps that is why acts of violence against children hit us the hardest. Over the course of the past 50 years, Queenslanders have been deeply shocked and suffered lasting consequences as a result of predators who target the most vulnerable members of our community. Some of the children who have been taken under the most violent and degrading circumstances have been either...

Jason Humberstone, Banglaow My 13-year-old daughter and her 13-year-old friend tried to catch the bus from Bangalow to Byron Bay on Saturday morning at about 10am. The driver refused to take them on the bus because they had no shoes. They were left abandoned in Bangalow with no other way to get about. If you cast your minds back to 2003 you might remember that a 13-year-old boy by the name of Daniel Morcombe was abducted, sexually abused and murdered after the bus he was waiting for, on the si...

These violent, sick murderers and child sex monsters are out on our streets after being paroled in the past two years. One took part in a gruesome killing where their victims head was severed with a tomahawk and used as a bowling ball and a puppet. Another was caught on hospital CCTV smothering her baby in its cot, and one is a notorious former bikie involved in a shopping centre shootout. We look at six of our most notorious killers and paedophiles released onto southeast Queensland street...

19th Feb 2021 7:18 PM Premium Content Subscriber only It was pre-pandemic days, when the crowds at lush Fortitude Valley cocktail bars stood shoulder-to-shoulder to shout their drink orders over the din of a DJ soundtrack. Mr Mista was one such bar, and high-profile party-boy criminal defence lawyer Adam Magill one such punter. A man about town, known for knowing everyone, Magill was on familiar terms with part-owner Kwan Leigh Fong. As the top-shelf cocktails fl...

Sunshine Coast CIB officer-in-charge Detective Senior Sergeant Daren Edwards congratulating his retired colleague Detective Sergeant Graeme Farlow. Picture: Matty Holdsworth "To put a result to the end of an investigation, a result for the Morcombes," Sgt Farlow said of one of his most memorable career moments. "My job is to satisfy the victims. "Myself and Daren, we were there in the bushes when they took him out. The result was 100 per cent positive. "Theres a few others, a murder up at...

Inquest for missing mum after heartbroken family’s plea A coronial inquest will finally be held for missing mother Allison Bernard who vanished in 2013. It comes after her family and advocates pleaded for answers. Crime by Thomas Chamberlin Premium Content Subscriber only A coronial inquest will be held for missing mother Allison Bernard who disappeared in Far North Queensland almost eight years ago. Ms Bernard, a young mother from Kowanyama, 23,�...

Crime by Thomas Chamberlin Premium Content   QUEENSLANDS most notorious paedophile Douglas Brian Jackway was a predator in jail and "picked on the weak people" but pleaded to be segregated to the detention unit whenever he faced being transferred to live with stronger prisoners, an officer says. The jail has the states worst sex offenders and high-profile murderers such as wife killer Gerard Baden-Clay, Brett Cowan who killed schoolboy Daniel Morcombe an...

Crime by Thomas Chamberlin Premium Content   QUEENSLANDS most notorious paedophile Douglas Brian Jackway was a predator in jail and "picked on the weak people" but pleaded to be segregated to the detention unit whenever he faced being transferred to live with stronger prisoners, an officer says. The jail has the states worst sex offenders and high-profile murderers such as wife killer Gerard Baden-Clay, Brett Cowan who killed schoolboy Daniel Morcombe an...

Crime by Thomas Chamberlin Premium Content   QUEENSLANDS most notorious paedophile Douglas Brian Jackway was a predator in jail and "picked on the weak people" but pleaded to be segregated to the detention unit whenever he faced being transferred to live with stronger prisoners, an officer says. The jail has the states worst sex offenders and high-profile murderers such as wife killer Gerard Baden-Clay, Brett Cowan who killed schoolboy Daniel Morcombe an...