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Subscriber only A Cairns mum who was shopping around methylamphetamine to people on Facebook Messenger was given an ultimatum in the Cairns District Court on Monday. In sentencing Brooke Candace Lee Brundell on three charges of supplying the drug ice, Judge Paul Smith told her she had two options. There s ice out there all over the place - it d be out the front of the courthouse I imagine, Mr Smith said. So you can go and take it if you want. You do that, you ll be back here. Or alternatively, you can say, I want to be a decent mother.
News by Rebekah Scanlan  A British backpacker who was kidnapped and raped in the Australian outback has vowed to return to Australia to start a new life. Elisha Greer, now 27, drove 1600km through the wilderness with a gun to her head after being kidnapped by Marcus Martin during a backpacking trip in 2017. The pair hit it off at an Australia Day party in Cairns and decided to go on a road trip together. But it turned into a holiday from hell after Martin, who was 23 at the time of the attack, after meeting, abducted Elisha and subjected her to a month of terrifying beatings and sex abuse.
News by Rebekah Scanlan  A British backpacker who was kidnapped and raped in the Australian outback has vowed to return to Australia to start a new life. Elisha Greer, now 27, drove 1600km through the wilderness with a gun to her head after being kidnapped by Marcus Martin during a backpacking trip in 2017. The pair hit it off at an Australia Day party in Cairns and decided to go on a road trip together. But it turned into a holiday from hell after Martin, who was 23 at the time of the attack, after meeting, abducted Elisha and subjected her to a month of terrifying beatings and sex abuse.