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Subscriber only A Noosa Heads man who punched a man unconscious during a night out drinking was just trying to break up a fight, a court has heard. Zaviar Alexander Scott, 26, pleaded guilty to assault causing bodily harm to another person and was convicted in Maroochydore District Court on Monday. Scott had been out drinking with a friend in Noosa in the early hours of April 1, 2018, when two other men started arguing with his friend, the court heard. The victim and his friend had allegedly told Scott s friend he stunk . Crown prosecutor Gerry Elmore said while Scott wasn t the instigator of the fight, he did step in to try to break it up when the argument escalated.
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Subscriber only From a man who was caught stocking up with hundreds of illegal Viagra pills to a man who threw a used vibrator at a staff member, here are some of the most unusual crimes to come before Coast courts this year alone.
Woman throws dog at victim Donna Maree Shailer leaving Caloundra Magistrates Court on March 3 after being sentenced for assault. A woman who threw her dog at another woman before hitting her with a laptop was fined $500 for the unusual assault. Donna Maree Shailer, 54, was charged with assault causing bodily harm after she attacked another woman, who was known to her, on August 9 in 2020.
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Subscriber only A convicted Sunshine Coast synthetic cannabis trafficker has had her life ruined due to seven year delay in the court proceedings. Phaedra Joy Barrett, 49, pleaded guilty on Monday to trafficking and producing dangerous drugs from April 2013 to August 2014, and possessing cash and other items used to run her synthetics cannabis business on the Sunshine Coast. The mother of two had previously appealed a court ruling after she was found guilty by a judge-only trial and sentenced to two years imprisonment in 2020. Barrett had served 198 days in prison before winning her appeal and was released on bail.
WEATHER REPORT AND TIDES It ll be a partly cloudy Friday on the Coast but the weather bureau says there s a zero per cent chance of rain for the region. Maximum temperatures will be slightly higher today, with Maleny expected to reach a top of 23C, Caloundra on 25C and Maroochydore, Noosa Heads and Nambour on 26C. High tide was at 5.18am at 1.67m and low tide will be at 11.46am at 0.47m. The next high tide will reach 1.54m at 5.55pm and low tide is scheduled for 11.53pm at 0.61m.
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A 20-year-old man who was caught with more than 2000 images and videos of child pornography has breached the terms of his suspended sentence by failing to report a new Snapchat account on time.
Rhys Jaden Friend was sentenced in September last year after pleading guilty to possessing and distributing child exploitation material, the Maroochydore District Court heard on Tuesday.
He was sentenced to three years probation for possessing child exploitation material and was given one year in jail, wholly suspended for three years for distributing child exploitation material.
A conviction was recorded for the distribution of the material but not the possessing.