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Premium Content Subscriber only The family of a little boy killed in a crash at Bouldercombe in 2016 will have to wait weeks to find out if Queenslands Attorney-General will appeal the wholly suspended prison sentence the driver who caused the crash received last month. The family of four-year-old Taylen Swanson has asked Attorney-General Shannon Fentiman for the appeal, saying they are appalled by the lenience of the sentence for Michelle Lee Newton who received a wholly suspended 3.5 year p...

Premium Content Subscriber only Queensland’s Attorney-General has sought advice from the Director of Public Prosecutions about the wholly suspended prison term handed to a Rockhampton woman convicted of killing a four-year-old boy in a car crash. The Morning Bulletin requested Attorney-General Shannon Fentiman answer questions in relation to the sentence Michelle Lee Newton, 30, received for dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing death and grievous bodily harm on March 19. Michell...