Basically, the victim was just sitting there and gets belted, unprovoked. He (the accused) just laid into him, punching him in the head. Sergeant Edwards said the accused had been involved in an earlier incident that had nothing to do with the victim and that he got the wrong person . He said the French national is believed to be on a working visa. Sergeant Edwards said it was another example of a spike in severe incidents of violence within the Coast s safe night precincts. The accused was released on bail with conditions and is due to face the Maroochydore Magistrates Court on May 5.
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Subscriber only A 28-year-old Yandina man who allegedly kicked down a door and attacked a man during a violent home invasion claims he didn t know his co-offender had a 40cm firearm. Frank Neucom was refused bail in Maroochydore Magistrates Court on Monday after he was identified as one of two men who allegedly used a gun to force entry into a Yandina house at 8:30pm on Sunday. Sunshine Coast CIB officer-in-charge Daren Edwards previously told the Sunshine Coast Daily a 56-year-old man was allegedly belted around the head and sustained serious facial injuries. Police prosecutor Brendan Newman told the court Neucom inflicted the injuries when he punched the victim multiple times .
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Subscriber only A dispute over forgotten bananas spiralled into threats to kill and extensive property damage at a Byron Shire property. Roger Glenn Cameron Clarke, 50, was staying with his brother, Ivan, and his brother s partner, Rhonda Rooklyn, at their Nashua property when the incident broke out on the evening of February 16 this year. According to court documents, Clarke began staying in a caravan and using an adjacent shed on the property late last year. On the morning on February 16, Clarke asked his brother to pick up some bananas for him while he was in town. Shortly before 1pm, Ivan returned and said he d forgotten the bananas, court documents said.
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Subscriber only Anger over a noisy bike and an excessive response to a perceived threat landed a Suffolk Park man in trouble with the law. Leon Geoffrey Murray, 41, faced Byron Bay Local Court on Monday to be sentenced for a charge of assault occasioning actual bodily harm. The court heard Murray took issue with another man s loud revving of a motorbike at the Shell service station in Suffolk Park on the afternoon of July 26 last year. The court heard he verbally conftonted the man before punching him twice. The motorcyclist suffered a cut lip, sore jaw, chipped teeth and soreness to his spine.