News by Vanessa Marsh
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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.
Man stabbed multiple times in random street attack A man has been rushed to hospital overnight after being stabbed on a sidewalk in Brisbane’s south.
Crime by Nathan Edwards
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Subscriber only A man was rushed to hospital on Sunday night after being stabbed multiple times as he walked along a sidewalk in Brisbane s south. Emergency services, including police and Queensland Ambulance Service paramedics, arrived on scene at Ipswich Road, Annerley just after 11pm. Police allege the 39-year-old was walking down the street before engaging in a verbal argument with a group of men. It is alleged one of the men from the group took out a knife and stabbed the man in his stomach and buttocks.