Man hitch hikes 350km to drug sentencing A man has been sentenced for supplying drugs to a teenager after hitch hiking for 350km to get to court and learn his punishment.
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Subscriber only A DRIFTING Cooktown man was busted selling cannabis to a teenager in a park just weeks after being sentenced and placed on probation for other drug offences. The Cairns Supreme Court heard Loxley Patrick Cassidy, 22, was living alone in his mum s house about 20km outside Cooktown, had no car, no phone and no job. He sent Facebook messages to a 15-year-old boy in March last year to organise to meet with him in a park and sell him cannabis.
Man accused of killing his housemate enters plea A man accused of the stabbing murder of his housemate at their house has entered a plea as the case was committed to the Supreme Court.
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Subscriber only A MAN has vowed to fight the charge after being committed to stand trial for the stabbing murder of his housemate after an argument at the Earlville property they shared. Joseph Raymond Thimble, 28, is accused of killing Marcus Russell Blair, 28, at the Downing St residence in January 2020. The court was told a physical fight broke out before Mr Blair was allegedly stabbed, receiving a wound which was 16cm deep.
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A career criminal whose family became caught up in the grisly Snowtown murders has appeared in court for her part in a heroin trafficking operation running in Queensland for months.