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âIt was fortunate the police arrived when they did,â magistrate Haydn Stjernqvist said.
Mr Stjernqvist said Gunn had âterrorisedâ the young girl.
âWeâve had a few conversations, havenât we,â he said, referring to Gunnâs criminal history.
âIf anyone who knew anything about law looked at the last four pages of your criminal history, theyâd see the court is trying to keep you out (of jail), and youâre trying to get yourself in there.â
Mr Stjernqvist said Gunn had previously been given suspended sentences and terms of parole, rather than being ordered to serve time.
He said it was either drugs or alcohol that led to Gunn ending up in court.
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Subscriber only From a wild Snapchat brawl where a teenage girl s neck was slashed and a police chase through suburban Maroochydore to $12,000 in fines handed out at a COVID-19 related party - in a year where headlines where dominated by the pandemic, the
Sunshine Coast Daily has taken a look back on 2020 to find the stories you may have missed. Here are 20 yarns that stood out in 2020.
1. SNAPCHAT SLASHING A war of words which erupted on social media sparked a violent teenage brawl at Kawana Shoppingworld which ended in a girl s throat being slashed by a box cutter.
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Subscriber only From a wild Snapchat brawl where a teenage girl s neck was slashed and a police chase through suburban Maroochydore to $12,000 in fines handed out at a COVID-19 related party - in a year where headlines where dominated by the pandemic, the
Sunshine Coast Daily has taken a look back on 2020 to find the stories you may have missed. Here are 20 yarns that stood out in 2020.
1. SNAPCHAT SLASHING A war of words which erupted on social media sparked a violent teenage brawl at Kawana Shoppingworld which ended in a girl s throat being slashed by a box cutter.