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Apprentice electrician Timothy John England, who delivered a fatal blow to 32-year-old Brett Thomson outside a bar in Cairns, is found not guilty of unlawful striking causing death by a Supreme Court jury.
A pedicab driver tells a court he heard a "sickening thud" moments after a scuffle broke out between two men outside a Cairns pub, leaving a 32-year-old man dead.
A court has heard sad details of the two minutes that led to the death of tradie Brett Thomson outside a bar.
Premium Content Subscriber only A TEENAGE boy who killed two young sweethearts in a horrific crash north of Townsville is believed to have fallen asleep at the wheel before his vehicle slammed head on into the couple. The Gulliver boy, who cannot be identified legally, was driving from Cairns to Townsville after attending a music festival the day before. Sleep-deprived after a night of revelry and drug taking the then-17-year-old made the fatal decision to embark on the four-hour journey home. He pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing two deaths but the teenager who will turn 19 in j...
Premium Content Subscriber only THE chilling final words of a Townsville woman killed in her own front yard by a man she employed to build her a new wardrobe have been heard in court. Pamela Frances Corless was struck on the back of her head with a one-and-a-half metre piece of timber after Mark Daniel Ferguson confronted her about money. On September 3, 2018, Ms Corless was found lying lifeless on her back by her son-in-law, three metres from her front door. In his opening statement, Crown Prosecutor Nigel Rees said Mr Ferguson admitted killing Ms Corless when he pleaded guilty to her ma...