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Subscriber only A TEENAGE boy who killed two young sweethearts in a horrific crash north of Townsville is believed to have fallen asleep at the wheel before his vehicle slammed head on into the couple. The Gulliver boy, who cannot be identified legally, was driving from Cairns to Townsville after attending a music festival the day before. Sleep-deprived after a night of revelry and drug taking the then-17-year-old made the fatal decision to embark on the four-hour journey home. He pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing two deaths but the teenager who will turn 19 in just a number of months won t spend any time behind bars.
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Subscriber only THE chilling final words of a Townsville woman killed in her own front yard by a man she employed to build her a new wardrobe have been heard in court. Pamela Frances Corless was struck on the back of her head with a one-and-a-half metre piece of timber after Mark Daniel Ferguson confronted her about money. On September 3, 2018, Ms Corless was found lying lifeless on her back by her son-in-law, three metres from her front door. In his opening statement, Crown Prosecutor Nigel Rees said Mr Ferguson admitted killing Ms Corless when he pleaded guilty to her manslaughter on Monday.
Jury finds North Queensland man Kyle Robert Thompson guilty of housemate s murder for second time
David Knyvett was killed in his Belgian Gardens home in November 2015.
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A Townsville man has been sentenced to life in prison for a second time over the brutal murder of his former housemate at a North Queensland home six years ago.
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A Townsville man has been found guilty of the murder of his former housemate in 2015
This is the second time Kyle Robert Thompson has been convicted, after his initial conviction was quashed by the Court of Appeal
Supreme Court Justice Susan Brown sentenced the 32-year-old to life in prison
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Subscriber only Bound and bleeding on his bathroom floor, a Townsville businessman drew his final breaths after his one-time protege took his life. The man, whose arms and legs were haphazardly tied together with duct tape, died after inhaling his own blood as a result of the serious injuries he suffered in a violent assault in his own home. Kyle Robert Thompson on Monday appeared in the Townsville Supreme Court, where he pleaded not guilty to murdering sign-writer David Knyvett in the man s Belgian Gardens home on November 15, 2015. Thompson, 32, used an empty Jack Daniel s bottle to beat the 59-year-old man - who had taken him in more than a decade earlier - to death, crown prosecutor Nigel Rees told the court.