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Your round-up of drink and drug drivers sentenced in Proserpine and Bowen Magistrates courts on Monday, May 10 and Tuesday, May 11, 2021.
1. Gavin Keith Price appeared at Proserpine Magistrates Court, pleading guilty to drink-driving on Wrights Road, Strathdickie on April 25.
The court heard a member of the public contacted police about 9.30pm when they observed Price’s vehicle driving onto private property, before stopping in the middle of the road with its lights turned off.
Police attended and observed the vehicle had a flat tyre, and that the driver appeared to be intoxicated.
He had a 0.109 blood alcohol content.
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Subscriber only A 46-year-old Collinsville man involved in a wild pub outing that involved drinking hand sanitiser after being refused service at the bar has been sentenced. Kenneth William Martin appeared at Proserpine Magistrates Court this week, pleading guilty to public nuisance and fail to leave licensed premises charges resulting from offences at Ravenshoe Hotel on April 10. The court heard bar staff stopped serving Martin alcohol when he reached an excessive level of intoxication, after drinking at the venue all afternoon. Instead of going back to his hotel room, Martin went to the pub s upstairs balcony, where he proceeded to drink an entire bottle of alcohol-based hand sanitiser liquid the pub had supplied for patrons use.
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Subscriber only A 23-year-old Airlie Beach woman has narrowly avoided a prison sentence after teaming up with her sister in a vicious, totally unprovoked assault at a CBD taxi rank. Asia Marie Otway faced Proserpine Magistrates Court this week, pleading guilty to charges of assaults occasioning bodily harm, commit public nuisance, and common assault, stemming from an incident near Magnums bar in November last year. The court heard Otway attacked a woman lying down on a public bench waiting for a taxi about 12.50am on November 25, leaving her with multiple cuts and abrasions to her face. Without warning, Otway grabbed the woman by the hair, pulled her off the bench, and punched her in the face.
A 63-year-old environmental activist has defended her role in a blockade at a Bravus construction site, saying her actions were necessary in the face of an imminent climate breakdown . Carine Marie Visschers, from Cairns, appeared at Bowen Magistrates Court on Tuesday, pleading guilty to one charge of trespassing and one charge of contravening directions from police at Bravus Carmichael Rail Project construction site on April 9. The court heard a group of protesters attended at the Mount Coolon site about 6am, erecting anti-Adani signs and banners which blocked workers access to the site. At the time of her arrest about 9.30am, Ms Visschers was inside the construction site, sitting on a camping chair blocking the path of vehicles attempting to work on the coal exporting rail line.
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Here’s the list of the drink and drug drivers who appeared at Bowen Magistrates Court on Tuesday.
1. Thomas John Bradbury pleaded guilty to operating a commercial fishing dory with marijuana in his system on March 20.
The court heard water police conducting patrols on the Coral Sea intercepted Mr Bradbury at 8.15am and conducted a saliva drug test, which returned a positive result.
Bradbury told the court he had used marijuana because he suffered from back pain and had thought it “better to have a smoke than take all these pills”.
He said losing his boat licence would mean losing his job.