Premium Content
Subscriber only A Southern Downs man has exploded into a violent rage in court, throwing himself against the glass dock an destroying property until he was forcibly removed by police. Craig Lewin Sharpley appeared in Warwick Magistrates Court on Wednesday afternoon to make an application for bail. The 26-year-old faces 10 charges including assault occasioning bodily harm, common assault, attempted assault, enter dwelling with intent, threatening violence and wilful damage. Defence lawyer Peter Sloane argued for the Goondiwindi man to be released on bail so he could return to work, but the application was opposed by police prosecutor Steve de Lissa.