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Governor presents Australian honours and awards (2) Latest News A selection of recent media releases, and news stories is available in the database below and can be searched for by year and month.  Media enquiries Friday 07 May 2021 His Excellency the Honourable Paul de Jersey AC, Governor of Queensland, today presented Australian Honours and Awards to the following Queenslanders: MR GARRY WILLIAM LOCKHART Group Bravery Citation Mr Lockhart is recognised with the award of the Group Bravery Citation for his actions during a prison riot at Long Bay Gaol in New South Wales. On the evening of 2...

    Chief Superintendent Brian Swan later confirmed that the call was made, saying the incident was being treated as deaths 'in relation to a police operation'. "Inquiries indicate that on the night before the fire there was a phone call made to police. Police did attend the unit at least a couple of hours before the fire," he said at the time. Deputy Coroner Jane Bentley is probing the adequacy of the police response to Ms Langham's Triple 0 call the night before the fire.       She is also examining the adequacy of the police response to Ms Langham's complaints about...

A man made multiple domestic violence order breaches before he and his former partner were found dead after her house was set alight in Brisbane's south, a court has heard. Doreen Langham's body was found inside her Browns Plains unit after it was "engulfed" in flames in the early hours of on February 22 - a day before she'd called police and asked for protection against her ex-partner Gary Hely. Hely was also found dead in the charred unit. Counsel assisting the coroner Kathryn McMahon told Southport Court today he'd made multiple breaches of a domestic violence order (DVO) implemented on Fe...

17:32 EDT, 5 May 2021 Kelly Wilkinson and Brian Johnston on their wedding day. He had been arrested earlier in April An investigation into the death of a young mother's death has been launched, while the coroner will probe police's actions in the lead up to her alleged murder. Kelly Wilkinson's badly burnt body was found on April 20 in the backyard of her home in Arundel on the Gold Coast, after neighbours reported hearing screams and the sound of an explosion. Her estranged husband Brian Earl Johnston, 35, was found two blocks away on a front lawn in a 'semiconscious state' and was later c...

Crime by Jeremy Pierce Premium Content   The Queensland Coroner has called in the police internal affairs division as part of an investigation into the death of Gold Coast mum Kelly Wilkinson. The 27-year-old died after she was allegedly set alight by her estranged husband Brian Earl Johnston in the backyard of an Arundel home in front of the couple's horrified children last month. Johnston, who was also badly burnt, spent 10 days in a coma and only regained consciousness last Friday. While detectives are still waiting to speak to the former US Marin...