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A man who claims he grew up around horses, used his whole arm to aggressively slap the hind quarter of a horse towing a carriage and then mooned patrons of a pub who chastised him for his actions.
He was then illuminated by police torches as he urinated in public before fleeing to the riverbank where he was arrested.
Ryan Martin Hayes, 38, pleaded guilty on June 3 in Rockhampton Magistrates Court to one count each of animal cruelty, public nuisance near a licensed premises and urinating in public. Ryan Martin Hayes, 38, claims he grew up around horses, used his whole arm to aggressively slap the hind quarter of a clydesdale horse towing a carriage and then mooned patrons of the Oxford Hotel who chastised him for his actions. He was then illuminated by police torches as he urinated in public before fleeing to the riverbank where he was then arrested.
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Subscriber only Four months pre-sentence custody was deemed time enough for a 50-year-old man who had supplied methamphetamine to others over a nine month period. If you hadn t done four months you d be going to jail, Judge Deborah Richards told Beven Wayne Combarngo. Police had seized Combarngo s mobile phone during a search on May 23, 2019, and found a number of drug supply messages, Toowoomba District Court heard. He conceded that he referred to meth in the messages as speed or rock , Crown prosecutor Mel Wilson said. The evidence pointed to the then 48 and 49-year-old having arranged to supply meth on about 22 occasions to about nine people between March and December 2019 in St George, she said.