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Subscriber only A court order suppressing all details of a troubling North Coast court case has been eased. Mystery had surrounded the case against three people charged with taking or detaining schoolteacher Anthony Stott at a Cudgera Creek property on the Tweed Coast, since a non-publication order covering all details of the case was imposed last May. Police will allege Mr Stott was detained at a rural property before he was fatally struck by a truck on the Pacific Highway nearby on the morning of February 10 last year. Mr Stott was allegedly struck by the semi-trailer about 7am.
Brisbane Broncos star Payne Haas has been fined $50,000 by the NRL and suspended from the first three matches of the season following his ugly clash with NSW police last month.
The NRL handed down its penalty after Haas avoided a conviction and was placed on a two-year good behaviour bond after pleading guilty to charges of intimidating police and offensive language in Tweed Heads Local Court on Thursday.
He later issued a public apology for his abusive rant at two police officers after being asked for his ID late on the night of January 16 in the northern NSW town.
The 21-year-old said he was committed to learning from the incident and would be a better person in the future.
LATEST: A social media prankster convicted of negligent boat use and environmental crimes will consult a lawyer for future stunts, a court has heard. Willem Ian Ungermann, 35, from Coolangatta, has amassed some 315,000 followers on Instagram for his outrageous pranks, mostly on Tweed waterways. Over a 2019 prank at a Fingal Head boat ramp which resulted in a car and trailer sinking into the Tweed River, Ungermann pleaded guilty to not reversing a vehicle safely, driving without proper control of a vehicle, negligently disposing of waste causing harm to the environment, polluting waters and contravening a section of the Protection of Environment Operations Act.
LATEST: A social media prankster convicted of negligent boat use and environmental crimes will consult a lawyer for future stunts, a court has heard. Willem Ian Ungermann, 35, from Coolangatta, has amassed some 315,000 followers on Instagram for his outrageous pranks, mostly on Tweed waterways. Over a 2019 prank at a Fingal Head boat ramp which resulted in a car and trailer sinking into the Tweed River, Ungermann pleaded guilty to not reversing a vehicle safely, driving without proper control of a vehicle, negligently disposing of waste causing harm to the environment, polluting waters and contravening a section of the Protection of Environment Operations Act.