Criminal charges laid over Japanese exchange student drownings at Fraser Island s Lake McKenzie
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An extensive air and water search located the bodies of two teenage Japanese exchange students at Lake McKenzie on Fraser Island in 2019.
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A school teacher and tour company have been charged with workplace health and safety offences almost two years after two Japanese school students drowned at a lake on Queensland s Fraser Island (K gari).
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A study tour company, company director and school teacher have been charged with exposing students to a risk of death or serious injury
Queensland woman accused of lying over Melbourne coronavirus hotspot visit has one charge dropped
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Haja Timbo was not in court for Wednesday s hearing.
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One of three women accused of breaching the state s strict border controls last year and sparking a major COVID-19 emergency in South-East Queensland has had one charge against her dropped.
In July, police charged Diana Lasu, Olivia Winnie Muranga and Haja Timbo with providing false and misleading border documents, after the group allegedly lied about travelling to Melbourne, which was a known hotspot at the time.
All three were also charged with fraud in relation to allegedly dodging mandatory hotel quarantine requirements.
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Subscriber only The pair were found dead beside Lake McKenzie on March 30 having become separated from their group the day before. They had been participants in the Australian Overseas Exchange Program and the visit to Fraser Island was for an eco-tour. They had arrived in Brisbane on March 25 and had travelled to Fraser Island three days later. Tourists Anthony Stave and Andrew Foreman at Lake McKenzie after the bodies of two boys were found. The pair had become separated from their tour group on March 29 and failed to turn up for a head count.
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Zlatko Sikorsky, 37, (pictured) was allegedly bashed to death by a fellow inmate at Wolston Correctional Centre in November
The maximum security prisoner who allegedly bashed a teenage girl s suspected killer to death in jail has been revealed for the first time.
Isaac James Martin, 26, was charged with one count of unlawful striking over the death of fellow inmate Zlatko Sikorsky during an alleged altercation at Queensland s Wolston Correctional Centre in November.
At the time of his death, Sikorsky, 37, was awaiting trial for the alleged torture and murder of his 16-year-old girlfriend Larissa Beilby south of Brisbane in June 2018.