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An outspoken freedom of speech advocate says being held in custody is causing him problems in defending police charges alleging he stalked three police officers and a senior registrar of the Ipswich court.
Russell Gordon Haig Mathews, 71, appeared from jail via video-link when the four charges of unlawful stalking were mentioned before Ipswich Magistrates Court.
The disability pensioner is known for the large signs erected in the front yard of his home on Brisbane Rd, Booval that are critical of the courts, politicians, and cite his belief that he is being targeted by a Catholic mafia conspiracy.
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Subscriber only WHEN a neighbour s friendly chocolate brown labrador wandered into the yard, Daniel Myers decided he would claim it as his own. By coincidence, Myers was moving out of his rented house that day, and he took the dog with him. Several days later the worried owner was shown photographs posted on a social media site and recognised her missing dog. Police were contacted and when officers went to Myers new house the labrador was found there too, an Ipswich court heard this week. Going before Ipswich Magistrates Court for sentence Daniel John Myers, 32, of Raceview, pleaded guilty to stealing the labrador at Redbank Plains between January 8 and January 21.
Wayne Read, 37, of Dalham Place in Haverhill, has been sentenced to 16 weeks in prison. Read appeared before Ipswich Magistrates Court on Wednesday, April 28, where he pleaded guilty to one count of burglary and for being in breach of a community order. It follows an incident on Monday, April 26 when a property in Rosefinch Close was broken into and jewellery disturbed, but not taken. CCTV captured a male walking towards the property and Read was identified as a former occupant. Officers from the Haverhill Safer Neighbourhood team arrested Read the following day, Tuesday, April 27, in connection with the incident and he was taken to Bury St Edmunds Police Investigation Centre for questioning, where he was subsequently charged.
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Subscriber only A CONVICTED child sex offender has been fined $800 for failing to report her use of social media. The 22-year-old woman went before Ipswich Magistrates Court and pleaded guilty to three charges that she failed to comply with reporting obligations in 2020. Her lawyer David Rawnsley argued that there had been nothing of concern and she was only keeping in contact with friends, which was important to her. He said the woman had been cooperative with police and provided access to her computer. She had forgotten that she needed to report it. She says she has short-term memory loss, Mr Rawnsley said.
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Two men and one teenage boy are due in court today following a burglary in Bury St Edmunds yesterday morning.
Police were called at approximately 2:15am on Thursday 29 April to reports of a burglary in progress where three males were seen in possession of a hammer breaking into the O2 store at Buttermarket.
Officers attended and the suspects fled the scene. Two were arrested by police shortly afterwards.
18-year-old Eremia Mirea of no fixed abode and a 14-year-old boy from Leeds were arrested on suspicion of burglary and have subsequently been charged in connection with the incident.
A third suspect was arrested yesterday evening.