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Subscriber only A BLUE tongue lizard was the apparent trigger for a domestic dispute in which a toddler was accidentally injured after being caught up in an argument between the parents. The child s father was warned by a clearly unimpressed Ipswich magistrate how close he had come to going into jail as a result of his behaviour towards his then-heavily pregnant wife. The 29-year-old man pleaded guilty in Ipswich Magistrates Court to breaching a domestic violence protection order at Collingwood Park on February 21. Prosecutor Senior Constable Narelle Lowe said police were called to a home at 3.30pm following a report of an argument between the pair regarding the catching of a blue-tongue lizard.
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WHEN a police patrol pulled over a vehicle just before 3am they did not count on getting some free legal advice from a tradie who had left an Ipswich hotel.
The tradesman told the police he âknew the Australian constitutionâ during a drunken tirade that resulted in him being arrested.
An Ipswich court heard that Dylan Hearps walked towards the police at the stopped car yelling, âstop those f ing c ts. Get those c ts.â
Prosecutor Sergeant Paul Caldwell said Hearps then ran towards the police calling out: âLeave them alone. They havenât done anything. Just leave them alone.â
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Subscriber only A man was caught drink driving at more than three times the normal limit while subject to having an interlock device fitted to his car for previous offending. An Ipswich court heard Sukhdev Singh was pulled over at 1am on April 2 in Gatton, blowing 0.172. Sukhdev Singh, 29, from Gatton, pleaded guilty in Ipswich Magistrates Court to driving under the influence of alcohol; and driving without an interlock device fitted. Prosecutor Sergeant Paul Caldwell said police intercepted Singh on Golf Links Drive. Checks revealed the driver was subject to a licence condition that he must have an ignition interlock device fitted from February 3, 2021 until February 2, 2023.
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A prisoner who lashed out at corrections officers while being led back to his cell has faced sentence this week, with CCTV footage of the attack played in court.
Appearing from jail at Woodford via video-link before Ipswich Magistrates Court, Bradley John Brooks, 30, pleaded guilty to committing a serious assault on a corrective services officer at Ironbark on May 28 last year.
Brooks was an inmate at the Borallon Correctional Centre at the time of the offence.
Prosecutor Sergeant Nicholas Turnbull said Brooks had been in jail since July 2019 with his sentence due to end in January 2023.
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A WOMAN who attacked her former boyfriend and tried to take money was accompanied by a friend who was armed with a bow and arrow, an Ipswich court heard this week.
Details of the incident were revealed when Teina Iona Muliaga, 26, from Redbank Plains, went before Ipswich Magistrates Court for sentence.
She appeared from jail via video-link on Thursday.
Muliaga pleaded guilty to 12 charges that included burglary (enter dwelling) on October 16; unlicensed driving; unlicensed driving â repeat offender; driving when under the influence (0.167) on March 21; possessing cocaine; common assault; wilful damage; two counts of contravening a domestic violence protection order; possession of drug utensils; and failing to appear at court.