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Subscriber only A YOUNG man with an intellectual disability has been refused bail after an Ipswich magistrate found his behaviour poses too much of a risk to the community. In the problematic case of what exactly the court should do given his special circumstances, the young man is under the care of the Public Guardian but it is alleged that he continues to abscond from his designated carers and behave aggressively. In recent weeks he has appeared in custody before Ipswich Magistrates Court charged with offences of violence. After being granted bail last week and released into the care of a supervised residential facility, he was rearrested by police within hours and charged with new offences.
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Subscriber only A RESIDENT of the City View Hotel in Ipswich has been granted bail following an Easter Monday incident that resulted in a man suffering a broken ankle. Rodney Arthur Clements, 38, from West Ipswich, appeared via watch-house video-link before Ipswich Magistrates Court on Tuesday charged with committing an assault causing grievous bodily harm at Brisbane St on Monday, April 5. Prosecutor Senior Constable Bridie O Shea said police opposed bail. Written police facts were handed up to Magistrate David Shepherd to read. Nothing of the allegation was read onto the public record. In making the bail application, lawyer Matthew Fairclough said Clements resided at the hotel and would abide by any curfew if bail was granted.
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Subscriber only AN Ipswich woman busted driving a stolen car also helped herself to premium fuel along the way, a court heard this week. The law caught up with Katelyn Aldred, who blamed a former boyfriend for stealing the car when she faced Ipswich Magistrates Court on Tuesday. Katelyn Rose Aldred, 22, a disability pensioner from Sadliers Crossing, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to unlawful use of a stolen motor vehicle on February 15; and stealing premium petrol worth $72 at Caboolture Puma service station on February 15. Prosecutor Senior Constable Bridie O Shea said the car was reported stolen by a woman at 3.20pm on February 14.
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Alarm bells went off when police noticed a car being driven suspiciously slowly through a car park at Redbank Plains.
Ipswich Magistrates Court heard the driver, Daniel Pauley, was breath tested and confirmed police suspicions, registering 0.112 – more than double the normal alcohol limit.
Daniel Blair Pauley, 42, from Redbank Plains, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to drink driving when on a probationary licence in Redbank Plains on March 17.
His alcohol reading should have been zero because of his licence status.
Prosecutor Senior Constable Bride O’Shea said it was just after 6pm when police saw a black Holden Cruze sedan being driven “in an excessively slow manner” in the carpark.
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Subscriber only A PREDATOR who spotted a woman he had seen previously at a hotel sexually assaulted her in the yard of her own home. A court this week heard Rory O Brien was already on bail for three counts of rape relating to another woman at the time. Both the victims were strangers to him. Appearing from jail before Ipswich District Court on Thursday, Rory Henry O Brien, 28, was convicted and sentenced for one count of sexually assaulting a 63-year-old woman on May 9, 2019. The offence occurred in the Lockyer Valley. Crown prosecutor Amanda Robinson said O Brien was convicted of the three rapes and a related burglary offence and received an eight-year jail term. The sentence was imposed by Judge Dennis Lynch QC in the Ipswich District Court last September.