Aldred said the Chief Health Officer made the directive on April 2 and the group was at sea so they did not know about it. We spent three weeks out there. We came in, got some groceries and went back out, Aldred said. We did not have any way of knowing about this. We have emergency radio, but we have no communications, there are no iPhones or anything out there. The 69-year-old Dingo Beach man said he owned two tourist boats worth $500,000 each but they had not been used for work since March last year because of COVID-19. Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young issued a home confinement health directive in April last year. Picture: Matt Taylor
Aldred said the Chief Health Officer made the directive on April 2 and the group was at sea so they did not know about it. We spent three weeks out there. We came in, got some groceries and went back out, Aldred said. We did not have any way of knowing about this. We have emergency radio, but we have no communications, there are no iPhones or anything out there. The 69-year-old Dingo Beach man said he owned two tourist boats worth $500,000 each but they had not been used for work since March last year because of COVID-19. Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young issued a home confinement health directive in April last year. Picture: Matt Taylor
Moreira told officers he had spent the afternoon at the Prince of Wales Hotel. The court heard paramedics treated Moreira at the scene for minor injuries and he was taken to Proserpine Hospital for monitoring. Sen-Constable Rowe said later that night Moreira was taken to the watch-house and on the way, he urinated in the back of the police car and was still grossly intoxicated . He was found to have a blood alcohol concentration of 0.252 per cent. Lawyer Peta Vernon, acting for Moreira, said he was born in Uruguay but had been in Australia for decades. Ms Vernon told the court Moreira had been through a divorce and had been diagnosed with mental health challenges.