However Thackray was placed on two years probation and a conviction was not recorded. He will, however, be a registered sex offender. Defence barrister Stephen Byrne said his 49-year-old client relapsed into ice use following a relationship breakdown. He has completed extensive drug rehabilitation, which he considers the catalyst for his offending, Mr Byrne said. Judge Dick noted a number of recent cases while sitting in Mackay District Court where there had been a connection between ice and really quite deviant sexual behaviour . It s starting to occur to me that in some people it s a trigger for really strange sexual (behaviour), Judge Dick said, before adding, I m not saying this man.
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From skinned crocodiles to major drug busts, these were the biggest crimes that rocked the Whitsundays in 2020.
Absolute croc
A man took a crocodile to a motel, skinned it, chopped it up and then ate it.
For that he copped fines amounting to almost $10,000.
Paul Andrew Isaacson, from Cannonvale, pleaded guilty in Proserpine Magistrates Court to taking a protected animal and making a false or misleading statement to a conservation officer, after he lied about it.
The court heard the Islands Inn Motel owner, in Mandalay, saw the 47-year-old cutting up the body of a crocodile, on September 18, 2018.