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Subscriber only A friend of child killer Matthew Scown says she accepted death when she was subjected to horrific torture by a woman high on meth. Tyniell Jade Brand, 26, was on Wednesday sentenced to jail for torturing Sophie Whiteley who in 2019 had been involved with Scown- the stepfather convicted of manslaughter over Tyrell Cobb s death. Maroochydore District Court heard Brand carried out the torture with a co-accused who allegedly scorned Ms Whiteley, 29, for bringing a kid killer into my home . Â Tyniell Jade Brand has been jailed for torturing a woman. Crown prosecutor Christopher Cook said the trio had taken methamphetamine when the co-accused allegedly began shocking Ms Whiteley with a taser at his Maroochydore home on June 5, 2019.
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Subscriber only A friend of child killer Matthew Scown says she accepted death when she was subjected to horrific torture by a woman high on meth. Tyniell Jade Brand, 26, was on Wednesday sentenced to jail for torturing Sophie Whiteley who in 2019 had been involved with Scown- the stepfather convicted of manslaughter over Tyrell Cobb s death. Maroochydore District Court heard Brand carried out the torture with a co-accused who allegedly scorned Ms Whiteley, 29, for bringing a kid killer into my home . Â Tyniell Jade Brand has been jailed for torturing a woman. Crown prosecutor Christopher Cook said the trio had taken methamphetamine when the co-accused allegedly began shocking Ms Whiteley with a taser at his Maroochydore home on June 5, 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.