A jury believed she bought and prepared a $75,000 yacht so her son, Markis Scott Turner, could abscond from Australia, and then lied to the supreme court about her actions. Mr Turner is accused of importing about $20 million worth of cocaine from Colombia into Australia after the Australian Federal Police uncovered more than 71 kilograms of the drug concealed inside barrels of hydraulic oil at Mackay railway yards in 2011. He had been on bail when the case was set down for trial in September 2015, but he failed to appear. Mr Turner was later arrested in the Philippines in September 2017, where he has remained in custody.
A jury believed she bought and prepared a $75,000 yacht so her son, Markis Scott Turner, could abscond from Australia, and then lied to the supreme court about her actions. Mr Turner is accused of importing about $20 million worth of cocaine from Colombia into Australia after the Australian Federal Police uncovered more than 71 kilograms of the drug concealed inside barrels of hydraulic oil at Mackay railway yards in 2011. He had been on bail when the case was set down for trial in September 2015, but he failed to appear. Mr Turner was later arrested in the Philippines in September 2017, where he has remained in custody.
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From skinned crocodiles to major drug busts, these were the biggest crimes that rocked the Whitsundays in 2020.
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A man took a crocodile to a motel, skinned it, chopped it up and then ate it.
For that he copped fines amounting to almost $10,000.
Paul Andrew Isaacson, from Cannonvale, pleaded guilty in Proserpine Magistrates Court to taking a protected animal and making a false or misleading statement to a conservation officer, after he lied about it.
The court heard the Islands Inn Motel owner, in Mandalay, saw the 47-year-old cutting up the body of a crocodile, on September 18, 2018.
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Subscriber only A woman found guilty of helping her fugitive son flee the country one month before his drug smuggling trial began will spend Christmas behind bars while she awaits sentence. Elizabeth Anne Turner, 66, was due to be sentenced in the Brisbane District Court today after a jury found her guilty of attempting to pervert the course of justice and three counts of perjury. But this afternoon her defence lawyer Alex Jones successfully applied to have the sentence pushed back six weeks after agreeing that Turner would be taken into custody to await sentence. There is further material that we would like to acquire, Mr Jones said.