'Arrogant' company boss fined $400k for sewage leak
The worst case of environmental contamination from leaking sewage has attracted massive fines for an “arrogant”, unrepentant director.
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The worst case of environmental contamination from leaking sewage has attracted massive fines for an “arrogant”, unrepentant director.
Premium Content It's any business owner's nightmare: employees who seem outwardly trustworthy but under the sweet exterior they are stealing from out under you. The hairdresser who plundered cash to feed his drug addiction; the payroll manager who gobbled up hundreds of thousands of dollars to gamble; the duty manager who stole thousands as revenge for a row with management - these 18 people below wanted more than was their due, and paid the price for it. Plundered $1300 to feed cocaine and methamphetamine addiction. Ellen Grove man Clarence Hyacinth Joseph, a former employee of ha...
Drunk driverâs âappallingâ hit-and-run with elderly woman A drunk driver nearly six times the limit has agreed to community service after hooning, crashing head-on into an elderly driver and fleeing the scene. Crime by Marcel Baum Premium Content Subscriber only A police prosecutor shocked at a 41-year-old driver's "absolutely appalling" head-on crash into a 78-year-old victim while nearly six times the alcohol limit, urged a court for a jail sentence after the man raced away from the scene of the accident. Redland Bay man Robert Lesli...
“Only a handjob, not sex”: A “down the food chain” Chinese national was busted mid-act at a massage parlour offering illegal acts of prostitution.
News by Marcel Baum Premium Content  A southeast Queensland man will have to live with "shame and humiliation" after two children had to be flown to hospital while hallucinating from LSD found in the form of sweets in his fridge. Described by a police prosecutor as an "extremely serious matter" Cleveland Magistrates Court on February 11 heard how bystanders had to intervene when two children at a Moreton Bay island resort in November became ill while playing at a pool area. Appearing at the court this afternoon the man, who can't be named for legal r...