Fast forward a couple of months and Berghahn was due to appear in court in February. Lawyer Cleo Rewald said Berghahn showed up to court but panicked and left. Police officers arrested him on a warrant and found a water pipe. Berghahn faced the magistrate from the dock on Tuesday and pleaded guilty to multiple charges including drug-driving, driving with a suspended licence and possessing a pipe. The court heard Berghahn was also on a suspended jail sentence. Ben Patrick Berghahn. Ms Rewald said Berghahn had been living in Bowen and from a young age he was diagnosed with ADHD, which led to him being on and off medication.
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A Mackay man says he is “embarrassed” and will refrain from masturbating in public again after he was caught for the second time.
Mitchel Dean Boyd, who faced Mackay Magistrates Court on Friday, was charged with wilful exposure after a member of the public reported him masturbating in his car at East Mackay on June 23 last year.
“I’m not going to do it ever again in my life,” Boyd said via videolink from jail.
“It’s an embarrassing thing.”
Magistrate Bronwyn Hartigan said police later arrested Boyd on September 17, 2020 after he crashed his car along Horse and Jockey Rd while his licence was disqualified.
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Subscriber only A distraught sister has delivered a harrowing account of the trauma she suffered after her brother sexually abused her as a teenager. The man, who spent his teenage years in Bowen and cannot be named for legal reasons, faced court on Friday and admitted to forcing his then 14-year-old sister to perform oral sex on him 53 years ago. He was in his late teens when the abuse took place and now at 72 years old, he has pleaded guilty to unlawful and indecent treatment of a child under 16 on an unknown date between January 1 and December 31 in 1968.
Defence barrister Scott McLennan said his client had since found better friends. The court heard Purcell had a good work history and was embarrassed to be spending his birthday in court. The court heard Purcell had a criminal history that began when he was 20 years old and included a grievous bodily harm charge for a one-punch strike, for which he was jailed but given immediate release. Mr McLennan pushed for a $1500 arguing that if jail was imposed Purcell s record would show a conviction for serious drug offending, which he said did not reflect the reality of the situation. But Justice David North, in handing down his sentence, said, Even the casual possession of drugs is serious offending.
A Slade Point mother has been labelled completely irresponsible in a horror animal negligence case that involved a skeletal, flea-riddled dog named Angel and her puppies that were slowly dying from malnourishment. When the RSPCA visited the Amhurst St home a number of times in January 2020, Michelle Lee Pomfrett said inspectors could take Angel but she refused to give up eight 2.5-week-old puppies. Mackay Magistrates Court heard the animals were confined to a room with no access to food and water. Angel had given birth to a number of puppies who were not being taken care of. In fact Pomfrett, who receives Centrelink payments, had previously told police she did not have enough money to buy food for Angel, who had been surviving off scraps being thrown over the fence.