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Subscriber only A young man will spend at least six months in jail after killing his friend when their car rolled at Teewah Beach in 2020. Mackenzie Liam Simpson was supported by his family in Maroochydore District Court on Friday, June 4, when he pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing death. The court heard Simpson, 20, was dangerously driving a Toyota LandCruiser on Teewah Beach on August 23 when it rolled, killing Bray Park teen Tyreece Pilot. Simpson, from Cashmere, had been drinking the night of the incident before he decided to drive the car along the beach at 1am. Mr Pilot was in the passenger seat as the pair drove along the sand between 60 to 70 km/hr, in a 50km/hr zone.
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Subscriber only A Coast mum was busted supplying meth after an operation targeting drug traffickers led police to her, a court has heard. Emma Lee Crang, 37, pleaded guilty to supplying meth in Maroochydore District Court on Tuesday, supported by her mother and the father of her youngest child. The court heard police had obtained a warrant to intercept a man s phone in July 2019 as part of a police operation targeting meth trafficking. It heard police intercepted 57 instances of communication between Crang and the man who had supplied meth to her. Crown prosecutor Madalyn Olivero told the Maroochydore District Court Crang had not been a principal target of the operation.
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Subscriber only From a gutsy grandma who tried to outrun police to a grandpa who was too slack to delete child exploitation material from his phone, here are eight Sunshine Coast grandparents who were busted setting a bad example. Â
Drug-dealing grandad s desperate act to save dying wife Thomas Ivor Jones claimed he committed drug offences to support his terminally-ill wife and himself after her death. Propped up by his walking stick, a grandfather pleaded guilty to staggering drug crimes he committed to support his cancer-riddled wife and himself after her death. Alexandra Headland man Thomas Ivor Jones bought a large amount of marijuana in a failed attempt to produce cannabis oil to ease his wife s pain during her terminal battle, Maroochydore District Court heard in 2019.
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Subscriber only The cogs of justice had to keep spinning throughout the worst of the coronavirus restrictions and courts adapted in 2020, ramping up video and telephone appearances for lawyers and defendants and turning to judge alone trials when a jury was not possible. Thousands of cases came before the court this year from the tragic to the peculiar and the scandalous. These were some of the biggest court cases this year:
HEIDI STRBAK RELEASED Tyrell Cobb. Justice David Boddice ordered that Heidi Strbak s be sentenced to five years imprisonment with the sentence to be suspended after the 1148 days - just over three years - she had already spent in custody.