An urgent danger to life warning has been issued as floodwaters submerge the city of Lismore on the northern NSW coast on Monday and more rain expected for Tuesday..
  The sisters stood trial on charges alleging they attempted to enter a dwelling with intent at night/threatening violence when armed with a knife at Lower Tenthill on April 17, 2019; and two charges of common assault. After completion of prosecution evidence, Judge Alexander Horneman-Wren SC instructed the jury that it must find both sisters not guilty of the attempted burglary charge because the case was not made out in the evidence heard by the court in the Crown prosecution case.   The jury formally found them not guilty of that more serious charge. For the offence of common assault, Judge Horneman-Wren sentenced Melanie Middleton to an 18-month supervised probation order.
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Subscriber only TWO sisters on trial for assault say they did not have a hunting knife when they went to a rural home near Gatton late at night. Natalie and Melanie Middleton say they were punched by homeowner Gavin Sutton when they went to his home to talk to his daughter Kelly Sutton. In his earlier evidence at their jury trial at Ipswich District Court, Mr Sutton said one of the sisters took a hunting knife from behind her back when he spoke to them outside his front door at Lower Tenthill, near Gatton. Melanie Maree Middleton, 33, and her sister Natalie Ann Middleton, 36, from Helidon went to trial after pleading not guilty to Crown prosecution charges that they attempted to enter a dwelling with intent at night/threaten violence when armed with a knife at Lower Tenthill on April 17, 2019; and one charge each of common assault.
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Subscriber only TWO Lockyer Valley sisters are denying allegations at trial they threatened violence at a rural property while armed with a hunting knife. A jury heard the confrontation was triggered by a love triangle involving one of the accused. In his evidence on Monday, the alleged victim said he was able to push the bigger girl over causing her to fall on pebbles outside the front door and drop the knife, after being confronted by the women who tried to push past him into the family house. Appearing before a jury in Ipswich District Court, Melanie Maree Middleton, 33, and her sister Natalie Ann Middleton, 36, from Helidon, pleaded not guilty to Crown prosecution charges of attempting to enter a rural dwelling with intent at night/threaten violence when armed with a knife at Lower Tenthill on April 17, 2019; and one charge each of doing common assault to Gavin Sutton.