A Queensland man accused of raping and treating a 14-year-old girl “as an object” and referring to her as “belonging” to him, has been sentenced to eight years imprisonment.
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Subscriber only A Pacific Islander faces deportation from Australia after a serious sex attack on a Whitsundays region island. The 30-year-old father-of-two, who cannot be named for risk of identifying his victim, stood in the dock as he faced Mackay Magistrates Court on Thursday. Judge Brad Farr said the offence was so grave it would automatically attract jail time. The court heard the man was drinking on the evening of March 21 when he became jealous of his female co-worker directing her attention towards another man. When [she] went back to her room, you walked back with her, despite the conversations that she didn t need you to do so, Judge Farr told him.
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Tears rolled down a Mackay mother’s cheeks as she waited to learn if she could have two more days of freedom with her children.
Chantelle Louise Emslie faced Mackay District Court on Tuesday over the burglary and armed robbery of a woman at an Airlie Beach backpackers on June 7 last year.
The court heard Emslie was 38 when she entered the woman’s dwelling armed with an “offensive instrument” alongside co-accused Vicky-Marie Philippie, then 37, and Lyall John Geesu, then 33.
Emslie also used “personal violence” in the attack. Chantelle Louise Emslie faced Mackay District Court on Tuesday, May 11, 2021. Picture: Facebook
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Subscriber only A Slade Point man has pleaded guilty for his role in an attempt to steal a buggy vehicle from a security guard at a Mackay shopping centre. Mackay District Court heard Darren Michael Robert Fewquandie and a group of others were cleaning out an esky with a fire hose at a Caneland shopping centre car park in the early hours of April 4, 2020. Two shopping centre staff, including a security guard in a buggy, approached the group and told them the hose was for emergencies only. The court heard while most of the group walked away when the guard approached, Fewquandie s co-offender allegedly got into the buggy.