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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 vehicle causing death and grievous bodily harm, along with one count each of drug driving while being a provisional licence holder and possessing a dangerous drug.
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Subscriber only He ended a 36-year marriage to be with her, but the new relationship only lasted five years before she moved onto a new partner and jealousy took over. Douglas Peter Beath, 64, pleaded guilty on May 14 in Rockhampton District Court to three counts of stalking - one with threats of violence. Crown prosecutor Samantha O Rourke said the stalking offending took place over two years and five months (August 1, 2015 - January 20, 2018), stalking his former partner, her colleague and her new partner. She said Beath s criminal record included two convictions related to the stalking offending. Ms O Rourke said the facts of the prior convictions involved Beath sending flowers to his former partner five times, calling her 1313 times and then driving to her house.
Premium Content Bruce Highway motorists witnessed an alarming act of domestic violence in Central Queensland recently. The assailant, a 46-year-old Innisfail man, pleaded guilty on May 5 in Rockhampton District Court to one count of breaching a domestic violence order. Police prosecutor Senior Constable Michelle Welch said the first witness was standing on the side of the road at Miriam Vale at 1.46pm on April 30 when a female victim yelled out of a passing motor vehicle after opening the passenger door, headed in a northerly direction, for the witness to call the police. She said the car kept driving north and pulled over about 3.55pm, east of Gladstone, for unknown reasons.
Bruce Highway motorists witnessed an alarming act of domestic violence in Central Queensland last week with witnesses stopping to assist the victim who was being punched and dragged in front of her child.
A man contacted 11 male strangers on the internet, asking them to rape his partner and carry out other sadistic, degrading and disturbing acts upon her.