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Subscriber only A Coast woman lashed out at nurses and threatened to follow them home after they didn t give her a taxi voucher. Melanie Gay Adams became increasing uncooperative, belligerent and rude towards Nambour Hospital nursing staff as they prepared to discharge her from the short stay unit in the emergency department on November 28 last year. Police prosecutor Alison Johnstone said Adams used obscene and bad language and demanded a taxi voucher to get home to Sunrise Beach while waiting for her discharge medication. Nursing staff and the pharmacist approached … (Adams) to supply medication and advise her that she didn t qualify for a taxi voucher and upon hearing this the defendant started to scream at the nursing staff, she said.
She said the 24-year-old told police the damage could have been caused with keys.
It came after Menkens caused $1295 in damage to his ex-girlfriend’s television.
Sergeant Johnstone said Menkens’ ex-girlfriend had been in Brisbane from January 18 to 24 and arrived home to “deep scratches across the screen”.
“She had been driven to Brisbane by … (Menkens) on the 18th of January and later ended up reconciling with a boyfriend,” she said.
“The defendant had been advised, he sent abusive text messages to her on the 19th and he stayed over in her unit that night and that’s when the damage occurred.
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The victims, Will Rogers and Charlie McKill, current and former Dolphins, are understood to be doing OK and the club has rallied around them for support. Sunshine Coast CIB officer-in-charge detective Senior Sergeant Daren Edwards said police allege the offender took hold of a beer glass and struck the two victims in the head. The incident unfolded about 7pm on New Year s Eve. The victims, aged 24 and 25, received lacerations, contusions and bruising as a result of the attack, Sen-Sgt Edwards said. The 19-year-old man was bailed under strict conditions to have no alcohol, not attend a licensed premises in Queensland and on curfew conditions.
Lawyer Chelsea Emery, appearing as town agent for Jacobson Mahony Lawyers, said Mr Goode was not in attendance at court but was in regular contact with his lawyers. She said the firm might not have been familiar with protocol on the Sunshine Coast where defendants are expected to appear in court at their first mention. Magistrate Haydn Stjernqvist said it was an example of solicitors telling their clients they don t have to appear in court when they should. So you re saying, in other places where there s different practises, potentially he could go all the way through to June and first appear on the matter at a hearing? Mr Stjernqvist said.