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 young man will spend at least six months in jail after killing his friend when their car rolled at Teewah Beach in 2020. Mackenzie Liam Simpson was supported by his family in Maroochydore District Court on Friday, June 4, when he pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing death. The court heard Simpson, 20, was dangerously driving a Toyota LandCruiser on Teewah Beach on August 23 when it rolled, killing Bray Park teen Tyreece Pilot. Simpson, from Cashmere, had been drinking the night of the incident before he decided to drive the car along the beach at 1am. Mr Pilot was in the passenger seat as the pair drove along the sand between 60 to 70 km/hr, in a 50km/hr zone.
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Subscriber only A five-year-old girl and her parents are lucky to be alive after a drink driver crashed into their car head on, leaving the girl with a collapsed lung and a brain injury. Police found two 600ml plastic bottles with wine in Stephen Benjamin Hayes s car after the crash on December 14 in 2019. Hayes was more than twice the legal limit when he crashed into the victim family s car about 8.15pm on Diddillibah Road. The girl s mother managed to drag herself out of the window while her partner waited to be freed from the wreckage. The woman suffered a fractured thigh bone, knee and ankle and a deep cut to her knee.