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Premium Content   A MAN grabbed his girlfriend by the neck, pushed her against a wall and slapped her on the leg in an attempt to stop her arguing. The argumentative couple had been drinking heavily at the time. But when he went before an Ipswich court, he readily agreed his behaviour had been wrong when the magistrate criticised his actions The 57-year-old man pleaded guilty in Ipswich Magistrates Court to one count of common assault - domestic violence related - on March 26. Prosecutor Senior Constable Narelle Lowe said police received the 000 calls at 4.30pm from the woman. The man...

A man threw a plastic box containing his belongings at his partner’s car after she started an argument with him about his lack of effort to do housework.

Premium Content Subscriber only The victim of an assault outside a courtroom made threats to his aggressor's daughter and was set to be sentenced for kidnapping and torturing the aggressor's nephew. A man, 43, approached the victim outside Rockhampton's District courtroom on March 13 after the victim had been communicating with his daughter and making threats. The man, who has a history of violence, pleaded guilty on April 13 in Rockhampton Magistrates Court to one count of common assault. The man shook the victim's hand, then pulled the victim towards him and grabbed him by the throat, o...

Premium Content Subscriber only A Cannonvale man has been charged after he allegedly grabbed a fire twirler from a performer and then punched a cyclist multiple times. Police allege the man was refused entry to a licensed venue on Shute Harbour Rd in Airlie Beach about 12.15am on Saturday. The 25-year-old man then approached a nearby crowd watching a street performer who was using fire sticks. Police allege the man rushed towards the fire twirler and took a fire stick before running down the street with it towards a taxi rank. He then allegedly threw the stick over his shoulder into the air...

Among 191 stations and across 18 crime classifications, Makhanda appears in the top 30 eleven times in the South African Police Service’s third-quarter crime report. Alarming figures for the violent crimes of rape and assault emerge in the town, along with an average of around 30 residential burglaries a month. Provincial Commissioner Lt-Gen Liziwe Ntshinga and the MEC for Transport, Safety and Liaison, Weziwe Tikana, released the Eastern Cape crime statistics for the third quarter at Cala on Friday 26 February 2021. The crime reporting periods follow the financial year, so Quarter 1 is Apr...