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A Bowen man with an “extensive record” of drug offences responded with “f ck youse” after a magistrate told him he would remain in custody as his case proceeds to a higher court.
Facing eight charges of supplying dangerous drugs, Jason Thomas Cousins was refused bail at Bowen Magistrates Court on May 11, where he appeared via videolink from a Queensland correctional facility.
The court heard police intercepted a parcel addressed to Cousins containing a “large amount” of methylamphetamine, while he was on parole for previous drug trafficking offences.
Messages from Cousins’ mobile phone allegedly showed he had set up an Australia Post digital ID to receive a package, and monitored phone calls between Cousins and an associate allegedly contained discussions of the delivery of parcels to PO boxes and letter boxes.
A 63-year-old environmental activist has defended her role in a blockade at a Bravus construction site, saying her actions were necessary in the face of an imminent climate breakdown . Carine Marie Visschers, from Cairns, appeared at Bowen Magistrates Court on Tuesday, pleading guilty to one charge of trespassing and one charge of contravening directions from police at Bravus Carmichael Rail Project construction site on April 9. The court heard a group of protesters attended at the Mount Coolon site about 6am, erecting anti-Adani signs and banners which blocked workers access to the site. At the time of her arrest about 9.30am, Ms Visschers was inside the construction site, sitting on a camping chair blocking the path of vehicles attempting to work on the coal exporting rail line.
Lawyer Peta Vernon said the 43-year-old man was born and bred in Proserpine but had been living in Maryborough for the past eight years.
Ms Vernon told the court Brown had been in and out of jail but moved back to the Whitsunday region around the time of the offence and his partner broke up with him, so he went on a bender.
The court heard the man had not slept for six days before he was found with the knife and pillow case.
Ms Vernon said Brown had an argument with someone at the pub, who made a threat to harm Brown’s nephew.
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Subscriber only A distraught sister has delivered a harrowing account of the trauma she suffered after her brother sexually abused her as a teenager. The man, who spent his teenage years in Bowen and cannot be named for legal reasons, faced court on Friday and admitted to forcing his then 14-year-old sister to perform oral sex on him 53 years ago. He was in his late teens when the abuse took place and now at 72 years old, he has pleaded guilty to unlawful and indecent treatment of a child under 16 on an unknown date between January 1 and December 31 in 1968.