Camp Hill Brisbane mother Hannah Clarke was on the morning school run with her three children, Aaliyah, 6, Laianah, 4 and three-year-old Trey, when her ex-husband flung open her car door and jumped inside. Hannah Clarke with her children Aaliyah, Laianah and Trey. Rowan Baxter threatened the terrified mother with a knife and told her to drive. But soon after, he doused her and the children with petrol and set them all on fire. The children burned to death strapped into their child seats. Frantic onlookers tried to douse Hannah with water while Baxter screamed at them to let his family burn.
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Subscriber only The cogs of justice had to keep spinning throughout the worst of the coronavirus restrictions and courts adapted in 2020, ramping up video and telephone appearances for lawyers and defendants and turning to judge alone trials when a jury was not possible. Thousands of cases came before the court this year from the tragic to the peculiar and the scandalous. These were some of the biggest court cases this year:
HEIDI STRBAK RELEASED Tyrell Cobb. Justice David Boddice ordered that Heidi Strbak s be sentenced to five years imprisonment with the sentence to be suspended after the 1148 days - just over three years - she had already spent in custody.