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Crime by Bianca Hrovat Premium Content   The scourge of domestic violence is worsening across the state as statistics from the Queensland Courts' reveal frightening increases in domestic violence orders (DVOs) made. More than 38,000 DVOs have been made by the Queensland Courts over the last year, the majority of which were lodged at Southport, Beenleigh and Brisbane. Women are, more often than not, the victims of domestic violence in Queensland, representing 77 per cent of those who require court protection. The orders can include conditions that lim...

Premium Content Subscriber only A young Logan woman facing 16 serious charges including an alleged gunpoint robbery, possessing a slamfire shotgun, dangerous operation of a vehicle and five unlawful uses of a vehicle faces the loss of her housing commission home after her bail was refused. Woodridge woman Darnika Corrina Plumstead, 22, cried in the glass dock at Beenleigh Magistrates Court on Friday as Magistrate Michael O'Driscoll ruled she was an unacceptable risk to the community in light of her lengthy criminal history, which was littered with convictions for unlawful use of a motor veh...

A young woman is facing 16 charges, including armed robbery, shotgun possession and five unlawful uses of a vehicle.