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Premium Content Subscriber only A five-year-old girl and her parents are lucky to be alive after a drink driver crashed into their car head on, leaving the girl with a collapsed lung and a brain injury. Police found two 600ml plastic bottles with wine in Stephen Benjamin Hayess car after the crash on December 14 in 2019. Hayes was more than twice the legal limit when he crashed into the victim familys car about 8.15pm on Diddillibah Road. The girls mother managed to drag herself out of the ...

A man squeezed a woman in a “bear hug” to stop her calling police when he refused to leave her apartment.

The man had been caring for his sick wife when he sexually touched his stepdaughter almost every day for three years.

The man had been caring for his sick wife when he sexually touched his stepdaughter almost every day for three years.

Premium Content Subscriber only A Gympie man will have the threat of jail hanging over his head for five years after organising a group of people to terrorise another man at his Mapleton home in 2019. Maroochydore District Court heard on Wednesday that Lewis Charles Bellerby, 36, hatched a plan to send the group to his victim’s Mapleton home armed with a baseball bat. Crown prosecutor Will Slack said Bellarby’s partner at the time took her child to her ex partner’s house (the vic...

January 6, 2021 was — to borrow a line from a famous speech by former president Franklin Roosevelt — a day which will live in infamy. Two days later, Twitter announced that it had permanently banned @realDonaldTrump’s Twitter account due to violations of its “Glorification of Violence” policy. Other social media companies were quick to follow suit. Within a matter of days, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Twitch, TikTok, Snapchat, Shopify and YouTube all either banned Trump’s accounts ...

Premium Content Subscriber only From a “clown on a moped” who made it only 100m to a man who led dozens of officers on a high speed chase across the Coast, here are seven people who tried to outrun the law. ‘Disgraced’ dad jailed for high on ice police chase A father who led police on a wild chase across the Coast was armed and high on ice. Gary Anthony Barker, then 38, was jailed for more than three years in June last year, after pleading guilty to 10 charges including dangerously oper...

Premium Content Subscriber only A friend of child killer Matthew Scown says she accepted death when she was subjected to horrific torture by a woman high on meth. Tyniell Jade Brand, 26, was on Wednesday sentenced to jail for torturing Sophie Whiteley who in 2019 had been "involved with" Scown- the stepfather convicted of manslaughter over Tyrell Cobbs death. Maroochydore District Court heard Brand carried out the torture with a co-accused who allegedly scorned Ms Whiteley, 29, for "bringing...

Premium Content Subscriber only A friend of child killer Matthew Scown says she accepted death when she was subjected to horrific torture by a woman high on meth. Tyniell Jade Brand, 26, was on Wednesday sentenced to jail for torturing Sophie Whiteley who in 2019 had been "involved with" Scown- the stepfather convicted of manslaughter over Tyrell Cobbs death. Maroochydore District Court heard Brand carried out the torture with a co-accused who allegedly scorned Ms Whiteley, 29, for "bringing...