The grieving uncle of hit-and-run victim targeted the wrong house in a vigilante home invasion, attacking an innocent man in front of his son, a court has heard.
A heavily intoxicated Sonny Mooney, armed with a knife, stormed into a home in North Mackay on the Queensland coast on June 22 last year.
Mooney believed the man was behind the tragic death of his 15-year-old niece, Nilly Mooney, who was struck and killed on March 1 as she searched for her phone on an road in Beaconsfield, Mackay.
Three months later, Mooney unleashed the home invasion after mistaking the car in the driveway as the one involved in the crash.
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A former teacher who rorted $93,000 in carer s payments from Centrelink over four years claimed she didn t know her husband was actually still working.
Madonna Maria De Vries received the cash between 2014 to 2018 while her sick husband Dylan De Vries was working as a maths and science teacher at a $7,738-a- term private school on the Gold Coast.
She pleaded guilty to two counts of obtaining a financial advantage by deception when she faced Brisbane District Court on Tuesday, but maintained she had no idea her husband was heading off to The Southport School for 35 hours a week, The Courier Mail reported.