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Subscriber only Lending a helping hand was no good excuse for breaking the law, with a Maranoa feedlot worker copping the punishment for driving a co-worker home while on a lengthy licence suspension. Robert John Laverty, 24, was on a licence suspension until 2029 after previous drink driving convictions, when he still decided to drive his work mate home as she was scared of driving on a wet road, the Roma Magistrates Court heard on January 19. But the court heard police pulled Laverty up on Roma Southern Road at 3.40pm on October 21. The defendant stated that the reason he was driving was they were returning home where they were working at a feedlot approximately 40km south of Roma, police prosecutor sergeant Heather Whiting told the court.
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Subscriber only A MOTHER was slapped with a $2000 fine after she punched her neighbour in the face because she believed he killed her cat. Samantha Ann Bassett fronted the Roma Magistrates Court pleading guilty to one count of stealing and one count of assault occasioning bodily harm. Police prosecutor sergeant David Longhurst told the court on November 10, the defendant overheard the victim, her neighbour, saying he entered her yard and killed her cat. The following day, Bassett saw the neighbour at the Wallumbilla pool and the pair engaged in a verbal altercation before the defendant got angry and punched the victim in the head, the court heard.