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Premium Content Subscriber only A MAN meant to protect the daughter of a woman he loved instead allegedly subjected her to the most "heinous" of crimes, by raping her, recording the acts and sharing it online. The Burdell boilermaker, who cannot be named to protect his victim, was arrested on Tuesday for more than 32 offences he allegedly committed against a six-year-old girl in 2016. Police will allege the man raped and sexually abused the girl almost every month for a year. The young victim was the daughter of a woman the 35-year-old was seeing at the time. Police will allege that the ...

Premium Content Subscriber only A SERIAL offender with an "atrocious" criminal history has again been jailed after he attempted to enter a woman's car while she was refuelling at a Townsville service station. Frank James Bowman Shepard faced the Townsville Magistrates Court from prison and pleaded guilty to 11 serious offences including attempt to unlawfully enter a vehicle, evasion, obstruct police, driving without a licence, driving unregistered, uninsured and with number plates suspected of being stolen. He further pleaded guilty to several drug offences including possessing property su...

Premium Content Subscriber only A TOWNSVILLE panel beater told police he had "given it a bit" when he crashed his car into an industrial estate in Garbutt. Magistrate Steven Mosch slammed Travis Cameron Stengel's "foolish behaviour" when the father-of-two fronted the Townsville Magistrates Court on Thursday. The court heard police were called to a single-vehicle crash on Hamill St where Stengel had driven into a block wall and roller door at an industrial site. Travis Cameron Stengel appeared in the Townsville Magistrates Court on April 15, 2021. Photo: Facebook. The 29-year-old pleaded...

Premium Content Subscriber only A Townsville businessman has faced court after he was charged with a string of serious offences. Townsville Showgrounds secretary-manager Christopher Condon fronted court on Monday where an additional charge was added to the list of offences. Chris Condon leaving the Townsville Courthouse. Picture: Alix Sweeney He faced one commonwealth charge of general dishonesty causing a loss, two state charges of unlawful possession of a weapon and one state charge of authority required to possess explosives. Condon's defence lawyer Victoria Twivey asked Magistrate S...