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Subscriber only Gympie Magistrate Chris Callaghan did not buy the excuses a 19-year-ld gave in court this week for failing to return a Blue Card that was cancelled. Riley Colin Carkeet, 19, was required to return the card last January after something in his criminal history led to a cancellation. After ignoring several requests by authorities for the card s return, the Gympie man was charged with failing to return it. Carkeet s lawyer told Gympie magistrates Court on Monday that her client believed his card was lost when it was in a car that was stolen and burnt out.
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Shotgun killer jailed after driving rampage ends in Gympie A CONVICTED killer who was given parole in 2019 for threatening two men with loaded pistols, lighting 11 fires and evading police was given another three years in jail for another terrifying rampage that ended in Gympie. John Allan Black served 12 years for the shooting manslaughter of a Mt Isa man. John Allan Black, 45, repeatedly evaded police and drove on the wrong side of the road on a meth-addled getaway that ended when he crashed on a dead-end road in Gympie last September. Black appeared via videolink in the Gympie District Court last December, pleading guilty to two counts each of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle with prior convictions and dangerous operation of a motor vehicle while adversely affected with prior convictions as well as nine summary offences.
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The message was simple from Gympie Magistrate Chris Callaghan to a young P-plater caught driving on a licence that had been taken off him for too many demerit points: âDo the mathsâ.
Christopher James Gallaher, 19, pleaded guilty to driving on a disqualified licence in court on Thursday, after he was caught behind the wheel by police on November 18 last year.
The court heard Gallaher had been driving on that occasion because he wasnât aware his licence was suspended. Magistrate Chris Callaghan.
âYouâre a P plater and youâve racked up seven points. How many points do you get on your P plates? Four. Do the maths,â Mr Callaghan told Gallaher while sentencing him.
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Gympie Magistrate Chris Callaghan has blasted an âappalling, racist and sexistâ attack on staff and police officers by a young man who was refused a beer on a train.
Dylan Peter Kelly, 21, faced court on Thursday after launching a tirade on board a Queensland Rail train in Bundaberg on November 27 last year.
Prosecuting Sergeant Melissa Campbell told the court Kelly attempted to purchase a beer at some point on the trainâs journey to Rockhampton but was refused when he could not provide any identification.
Kelly then had someone else purchase the beer for him, but was soon approached by staff members for consuming alcohol on the train without I.D.