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A TRUCK driver banged on the window of a tradie’s ute then punched him in a nasty outburst of road rage.
When the tradie put up his arm to protect his head the blow from Alan Davidson struck his forearm, an Ipswich court has heard.
Davidson was a disqualified driver at the time and should not have been on the road in his work truck when he lost his temper.
It was one of nine charges Davidson was sentenced for at Ipswich Magistrates Court on Thursday.
Alan J Davidson, 39, from North Ipswich, pleaded guilty to assault doing bodily harm to the man on November 21, 2019; four charges of driving when disqualified (in August and November 2019, and two in April 2020); drink driving when unlicensed on April 1, 2020; obstructing police when in licensed premises on October 31; failing to stop; and failing to appear at court.
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A man who stole a mower and a computer from a real estate agency blamed a man named ‘Ray’ when police found the missing goods at his house.
At the time of the burglary the offender, Daniel Jones, was living across the road from Switch Realty in Newtown, Ipswich Magistrates Court heard.
A witness saw Jones and another male leave the real estate agency on Brisbane Road about 1.20am and called police.
Daniel James Jones, 39, a father of four who now lives at Loganlea, pleaded guilty to entering premises by break and stealing in Newtown on February 6, 2020.
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UPDATE: A JURY has returned a verdict of not guilty in the case of Gilbert James Neho, who stood trial on a Crown prosecution charge of grievous bodily harm.
The charge arose from a birthday party at Collingwood Park in April 2016.
Less than an hour after retiring to consider the case heard before Ipswich District Court, the jury returned to deliver the not guilty verdict on Thursday before Judge Dennis Lynch QC.
Mr Neho was formerly absolved and left the courtroom.
EARLIER: A MAN is defending charges of grievous bodily harm that arose from a birthday party that turned violent in Ipswich in 2016.
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Subscriber only TWO sisters on trial for assault say they did not have a hunting knife when they went to a rural home near Gatton late at night. Natalie and Melanie Middleton say they were punched by homeowner Gavin Sutton when they went to his home to talk to his daughter Kelly Sutton. In his earlier evidence at their jury trial at Ipswich District Court, Mr Sutton said one of the sisters took a hunting knife from behind her back when he spoke to them outside his front door at Lower Tenthill, near Gatton. Melanie Maree Middleton, 33, and her sister Natalie Ann Middleton, 36, from Helidon went to trial after pleading not guilty to Crown prosecution charges that they attempted to enter a dwelling with intent at night/threaten violence when armed with a knife at Lower Tenthill on April 17, 2019; and one charge each of common assault.
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Subscriber only TWO Lockyer Valley sisters are denying allegations at trial they threatened violence at a rural property while armed with a hunting knife. A jury heard the confrontation was triggered by a love triangle involving one of the accused. In his evidence on Monday, the alleged victim said he was able to push the bigger girl over causing her to fall on pebbles outside the front door and drop the knife, after being confronted by the women who tried to push past him into the family house. Appearing before a jury in Ipswich District Court, Melanie Maree Middleton, 33, and her sister Natalie Ann Middleton, 36, from Helidon, pleaded not guilty to Crown prosecution charges of attempting to enter a rural dwelling with intent at night/threaten violence when armed with a knife at Lower Tenthill on April 17, 2019; and one charge each of doing common assault to Gavin Sutton.