A former teacher who rorted $93,000 in carer s payments from Centrelink over four years claimed she didn t know her husband was actually still working.
Madonna Maria De Vries received the cash between 2014 to 2018 while her sick husband Dylan De Vries was working as a maths and science teacher at a $7,738-a- term private school on the Gold Coast.
She pleaded guilty to two counts of obtaining a financial advantage by deception when she faced Brisbane District Court on Tuesday, but maintained she had no idea her husband was heading off to The Southport School for 35 hours a week, The Courier Mail reported.
Tradie victim of a violent road rage trowel attack A man who attacked a tradie during a violent road rage melee causing a compound leg fracture and a fractured skull will spend only 20 months in jail.
Crime by Kay Dibben
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Subscriber only A man who bashed a tradie in the head with a metal trowel in an M1 road rage assault, leaving him with a life-threatening brain injury, will spend only 20 months in jail. And another man who punched victim Brock Prime, then 29, in the head at least three times, while he lay on the ground, has been ordered to do 100 hours of community service.
Tradie Brock Prime was the victim of a road rage incident in February of 2018
Jonathan Christopher Lawerence, 29, will serve just 20 months behind bars
Co-accused Jordan Baklas, 30, was handed 100 hours of community service
The pair attacked Mr Prime in a vicious attack involving a concreting trowel
Mr Prime was left with a fractured skull and his brain exposed after attack
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Subscriber only A ROSEWOOD man who climbed onto a roof of a stranger s house and began throwing down roof tiles also took part in service station break-ins that netted in excess of $25,000 in cigarettes. Appearing for sentence from jail via video-link, Troy John Currey, 33, pleaded guilty in Ipswich Magistrates Court to 16 offences including enter premises and stealing, serious assault; receiving; going armed in public; wilful damage; driving when disqualified; and unlawful use of a motor vehicle. Prosecutor Sergeant Molinaro said Currey was serving a jail sentence but was set for release in July. Sgt Molinaro said there were nine pages of written facts and she tended nine photographs relating to the offences.
The shocking moment a Woolworths employee violently attacked his colleague after being provoked by a smug look has been caught on camera.
Xaden Berryman, 19, launched himself at his 18-year-old coworker as he left the Woolworths Forest Lakes store in Brisbane at 5pm on April 26, 2020.
CCTV footage from inside the busy shopping centre shows Berryman sprinting over to the younger teenager wearing an orange high-visibility vest.
Xaden Berryman, 19, is seen sprinting towards his younger colleague and knocking him to the ground, before unleashing a series of violent blows
The Boronia Heights teenager then unleashes a series of violent blows at his unsuspecting co-worker, knocking the 18-year-old to the ground.