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A man who threatened to distribute footage of himself having sex with a former partner sent a screenshot of the video being uploaded to a social media site to the victim after they broke up.
The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded guilty on April 14 in Rockhampton Magistrates Court to three counts of breaching police protection orders, one of wilful damage and one of threatening person to distribute visual footage against their wishes.
Police prosecutor Senior Constable Peter Rumford said police had the protection order put in place after the man made the footage distribution threat which came about as the relationship came to an end.
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He is contemplating eating people, killing them, turning them inside out. Magistrate Jason Schubert said the defendant, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was on probation at the time. You made some horrific, cruel and vicious threats to kill, to turn other people inside out and some revolting threat to eat them, he said. In a cowardly manner, you take to blaming the victim for turning you into the person you are. The defendant pleaded guilty on April 21 in Rockhampton Magistrates Court to two counts of breaching a domestic violence order. Sergeant Ongheen said the victim, who lived in Emerald, received a call on April 17 from a friend, telling her to pack her bags and get out of her residence as soon as possible as the defendant had threatened to kill her and was two hours away from Emerald.
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A man who attempted to pour petrol on a woman through a window after she woke him up was on probation for drugs.
The man, who cannot be named for legal reason, pleaded guilty on April 14 in Rockhampton Magistrates Court to one count of breaching a domestic violence order.
Police prosecutor Senior Constable Peter Rumford said the defendant was woken up by a female visitor on April 13 at a Depot Hill residence, tripped over a television, yelled at the woman to return to inside the dwelling and called her a ‘dumb c - sl ’.
He said the defendant, when the woman refused to go back inside, poured petrol out the window she was standing under, just missing the victim.
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Michelle Ann Costello has been banned from driving for two years and she only has herself to blame.
The 46-year-old was originally disqualified from driving for six months in Yeppoon Magistrates Court on April 8.
The very next day she drove, and police caught her.
On April 22 in the same court, Costello pleaded guilty to driving while disqualified by a court order after police nabbed her driving on Yeppoon’s John Street on April 9.
Costello told Magistrate Jason Schubert that she had operated a cleaning business but due to her offending that was now finished.
She received no sympathy from the magistrate.