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Mother jailed over helping son flee Australia to avoid drug trafficking charges
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Sentencing was delayed in November due to Elizabeth Turner s request for a medical and psychological examination.
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A central Queensland mother has been sentenced to four years in jail for her role in helping her son flee Australia to avoid facing court over serious drug trafficking charges.
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Elizabeth Turner s son Markis disappeared a month before his trial over drug charges was due to start in 2015
The court heard she was involved in her son s escape from Australia
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A jury believed she bought and prepared a $75,000 yacht so her son, Markis Scott Turner, could abscond from Australia, and then lied to the supreme court about her actions. Mr Turner is accused of importing about $20 million worth of cocaine from Colombia into Australia after the Australian Federal Police uncovered more than 71 kilograms of the drug concealed inside barrels of hydraulic oil at Mackay railway yards in 2011. He had been on bail when the case was set down for trial in September 2015, but he failed to appear. Mr Turner was later arrested in the Philippines in September 2017, where he has remained in custody.
A jury believed she bought and prepared a $75,000 yacht so her son, Markis Scott Turner, could abscond from Australia, and then lied to the supreme court about her actions. Mr Turner is accused of importing about $20 million worth of cocaine from Colombia into Australia after the Australian Federal Police uncovered more than 71 kilograms of the drug concealed inside barrels of hydraulic oil at Mackay railway yards in 2011. He had been on bail when the case was set down for trial in September 2015, but he failed to appear. Mr Turner was later arrested in the Philippines in September 2017, where he has remained in custody.