Crime by Luke Mortimer
Premium Content  A Labrador ice addict bit his partner s face, stalked the woman from inside the roof of her home and caused her to leap from a moving car in terror during a manic trip on the M1. Marko Lipovac also smashed all windows in the younger woman s home, bombarded her with calls and texts and threatened to shoot her family. Marko Lipovac, 38, of Labrador outside Southport Courthouse. Croatian-born Lipovac, who was addicted to methamphetamines (ice) during the offending in February and March last year, faced Southport District Court for sentencing on Monday. The 38-year-old pleaded guilty to unlawful stalking, assault occasioning bodily harm, wilful damage (domestic violence offences) and possessing drug utensils - an ice pipe.
New unit and Audi for worker who took $284k from employer A woman has been jailed after stealing more than $280,000 from the major mining company she worked for, using it to buy an inner-city apartment and new car.
Crime by Kay Dibben
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Subscriber only A woman who defrauded her mining company employer of $284,000, spending some of it on an inner-city Brisbane apartment and a luxury car she could not afford, has been jailed. Nicole Rani Gunthorpe, 43, had worked for Kestrel Coal as a lead accounts payment clerk for only weeks when she began siphoning company money into her bank accounts.