Courts
Star Entertainment slapped with $140k fine
Star pleaded guilty to 11 charges, including helping gamblers to buy chips using a credit card.
- by Cloe Read
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Brisbane grandmother to be sentenced after poisoning husband’s soup
Judith Ann Venn has been in custody for more than three years over the killing.
- by Cloe Read
Phone call details female cop’s claim she was raped by fellow officer: court
One of the state’s most senior serving officers will be called as a witness in the historical case.
- by Cloe Read
Coins and punches thrown in SEQ road rage attack
Cut off by another motorist, Karen Amaketo Matautia pursued the vehicle along a highway while her passenger threw coins.
- by Laine Clark
Murder-accused has bail revoked over charges of animal cruelty, violence
The 20-year-old is one of 13 men charged over the stabbing death of a teenager who died on the railway line near a baseball field in Zillmere.
- by Cloe Read
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Brisbane
Duo accused of smuggling $61m in cocaine inside yacht
Police say one of the men threw a backpack containing $290,000 cash in a vacuum-sealed bag from the apartment balcony when officers knocked on the front door.
- by Rex Martinich
Man begged for help before he was allegedly killed and put in concrete, court hears
Minutes before Andrew Christopher Walsh was killed, he said “help me”. Months later, his body was found encased in concrete.
- by Cloe Read
Cop says he feared life was in danger before shooting
At 6am on December 17, 2020, first-year police officer Constable Drew Lavery began his shift responding to a traffic hazard. A court has heard why it resulted in the shooting of a ‘radicalised’ alleged murderer.
- by Laine Clark
Counter-terrorism case officer ‘not told of Abdi bail breach’
Raghe Abdi’s case officer, who asked to be notified if the 22-year-old breached bail, never received the call. That night, two people were killed.
- by Laine Clark
In jail, he feared going to hell. He was later linked to two killings
A young man shot dead by police had been detained months earlier over counterterrorism fears. After his release, his mental health deteriorated, his father has told an inquest.
- by Cloe Read
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Brisbane
‘Leave me alone’: The moment ‘radicalised’ man was shot on motorway
Raghe Mohamed Abdi yelled “Allahu akbar” more than 10 times as he moved towards officers with a knife. It was hours after the bodies of an elderly couple were found in their home.
- by Cloe Read