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Subscriber only Horrendous, unnerving and cowardly were just some of the words a magistrate used to describe an attack on three teenagers in an Ocean St carpark late last year. Nambour man Mathew Phillip Bridges was jailed on Thursday for the assaults, which left one man in hospital with a non-life threatening head injury, and two others with minor injuries. Bridges, 36, antagonised a group of young men and women, which included the three victims, as he essentially stalked them to the carpark of the Big Top Shopping Centre, Magistrate Maxine Baldwin told the court. The court heard when Bridges approached the group he punched a 19-year-old man in the face, causing him to hit his head on the car he was standing next to.
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Subscriber only Horrendous, unnerving and cowardly were just some of the words a magistrate used to describe an attack on three teenagers in an Ocean St carpark late last year. Nambour man Mathew Phillip Bridges was jailed on Thursday for the assaults, which left one man in hospital with a non-life threatening head injury, and two others with minor injuries. Bridges, 36, antagonised a group of young men and women, which included the three victims, as he essentially stalked them to the carpark of the Big Top Shopping Centre, Magistrate Maxine Baldwin told the court. The court heard when Bridges approached the group he punched a 19-year-old man in the face, causing him to hit his head on the car he was standing next to.
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Subscriber only A woman whose car was stolen and involved in a crash that killed a teen has send a heartfelt message to the young man s family. DeAnne Pokarier is $4500 out of pocket after her white Mitsubishi Outlander was stolen from her Nambour property and written off in the crash. But it wasn t the money that concerned the mother-of-four the most. I wasn t thinking about anything except for an 18-year-old boy has lost his life and his family have lost him and I didn t really care about anything else, she said. I was just devastated for the fact that a few days after Christmas a family is going to be grieving the loss of a young man who has obviously made some mistakes.