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Premium Content Subscriber only A petition calling for mandatory minimum actual time in custody sentences for motorists convicted of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing death, following a fatal crash which killed four-year-old Taylen Swanson, continues to gain attention with more than 3400 signatures. The petition was started by Taylen’s aunt Jody Swanson following the sentencing of at-fault driver Michelle Lee Newton in Rockhampton District Court on March 19 to 3.5 years prison, wholly suspended and operational for five years for one count of dangerous operation of a motor vehic...

Premium Content Subscriber only A petition calling for mandatory minimum actual time in custody sentences for motorists convicted of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing death, following a fatal crash which killed four-year-old Taylen Swanson, continues to gain attention with more than 3400 signatures. The petition was started by Taylen’s aunt Jody Swanson following the sentencing of at-fault driver Michelle Lee Newton in Rockhampton District Court on March 19 to 3.5 years prison, wholly suspended and operational for five years for one count of dangerous operation of a motor vehic...

Premium Content Subscriber only The Liberal National Party's Tim Nicholls has described the sentence of a Rockhampton woman for dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing death and grievous bodily harm as "manifestly inadequate". Mr Nicholls, the justice spokesman for the LNP, spoke with The Morning Bulletin on Thursday about the sentence of Michelle Lee Newton. Newton, 30, was sentenced on March 19 to 3.5 years prison, wholly suspended and operational for five years for one count of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing death and grievous bodily harm, along with one count eac...

Premium Content Subscriber only The family of a little boy killed in a crash at Bouldercombe in 2016 will have to wait weeks to find out if Queensland's Attorney-General will appeal the wholly suspended prison sentence the driver who caused the crash received last month. The family of four-year-old Taylen Swanson has asked Attorney-General Shannon Fentiman for the appeal, saying they are appalled by the lenience of the sentence for Michelle Lee Newton who received a wholly suspended 3.5 year prison term for the charge of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing death on March 19 in Ro...

Premium Content Subscriber only Queensland’s Attorney-General has sought advice from the Director of Public Prosecutions about the wholly suspended prison term handed to a Rockhampton woman convicted of killing a four-year-old boy in a car crash. The Morning Bulletin requested Attorney-General Shannon Fentiman answer questions in relation to the sentence Michelle Lee Newton, 30, received for dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing death and grievous bodily harm on March 19. Michelle Lee Newton, 30, leaving Rockhampton courthouse on March 19, 2021, after being sentenced to 3.5 yea...