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A driver with a chequered traffic history was caught driving by Gladstone police despite the fact his licence was suspended for speeding, a court heard.
Phillip Paul Nunns, 45, appeared in the Gladstone Magistrates Court on Tuesday and pleaded guilty to driving a motor vehicle without driver s licence previous speeding >40km/h.
Police prosecutor Kelvin Boyd read the facts of Nunn’s case to the court and Magistrate Bevan Manthey.
About 8.45pm on February 26, Nunns was intercepted driving a car on Dalrymple Dr, Toolooa.
When questioned, Nunns stated he was driving to go to his uncle’s house to see if his uncle could assist him with tyres for his car.
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Toolooa man Aaron Andrew Channell, 23, was excused from appearing before Magistrate Bevan Manthey and police prosecutor Kelvin Boyd.
The two counts of serious assault of a police officer causing bodily harm were upgraded to grievous bodily harm.
The Observer reported on March 3, the incident involving the alleged grievous bodily harm charge occurred last November.
A QPS spokesman said the officer and his colleagues attended an address on Larsen St in West Gladstone at 11pm on November 28 in relation to a car driving in a dangerous manner.
“It will be alleged he (Channell) then became aggressive and abusive and struggled with police,” the spokesman said.
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A teenage girl reportedly suffered a head injury after allegedly being assaulted on Friday.
It is understood that after Friday’s incident, a teenage school student went home suffering a possible head injury.
A Queensland Ambulance Service spokesman said paramedics attended an address at Toolooa at 12.38pm and examined a female in her mid-teens.
The spokesman said paramedics examined the girl’s face and head for injuries but she did not require transport to hospital.
A Queensland Education Department spokesman said they had no assault on record at any Gladstone region high schools on Friday. alleged assault
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