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Subscriber only Her back to a courtroom wall, the wife of a convicted thug started crying as her husband was led away from his young family to a prison cell for a cowardly attack that left a man with permanent injuries. Benjamine Anthony Hughes s promise as a talented AFL player once drafted into the top league had been betrayed by his inability to control his violence when on the drink. The 32-year-old pleaded guilty in Maroochydore District Court on Friday to causing grievous bodily harm to financial services industry executive Martin Culnane at a Noosa holiday home in the early hours of November 25, 2018.
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The owner of two Gold Coast beauty salons walked from court on a “knife’s edge” after a tourist was lured from a Noosa resort, held and tortured.
Katrina Patricia Nadine Gorrie, 33, was on Wednesday sentenced to three years in jail with immediate release on parole for her involvement in the five-hour ordeal on April 14, 2019. Katrina Patricia Nadine Gorrie leaves Maroochydore Court House on Wednesday.
Maroochydore District Court heard the mum-of-two and business owner had known co-offender Timothy Andrew Butler for just days when they coaxed a tourist they met at Sofitel Noosa into a hatchback.
A man who kneed his wife in the stomach and pushed her into a bed frame during a “disturbing” assault had been paranoid and carrying knives in the lead up.