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A Gympie man will have the threat of jail hanging over his head for five years after organising a group of people to terrorise another man at his Mapleton home in 2019.
Maroochydore District Court heard on Wednesday that Lewis Charles Bellerby, 36, hatched a plan to send the group to his victimâs Mapleton home armed with a baseball bat.
Crown prosecutor Will Slack said Bellarbyâs partner at the time took her child to her ex partnerâs house (the victim) after a falling out with Bellerby.
The court heard Bellerby was also angry because of some stolen property and sent her and the victim threatening messages.
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Subscriber only An academic high achiever whose life descended into a cashed up, drug addicted mess has told a court she wants to be a doctor and is hitting the books to make it happen. Kaori Celine Nakasi walked from Maroochydore District Court without punishment on Wednesday after being sentenced for a drug offence which related to a 2019 visit to a Coast police station.
The 25-year-old made headlines in June last year when she was sentenced in the same court for her ties to a police pursuit of a sports car and the lies a court heard she was coaxed into telling about it.
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Subscriber only A Sunshine Coast grandfather who asked his young granddaughter if he could be her boyfriend has been sent to jail for grooming and raping the girl. The 77-year-old man pleaded guilty in Maroochydore District Court on Tuesday to two counts of rape, three counts of indecent treatment of a child under 12 years and one count of grooming. The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had a particularly close relationship with his granddaughter and while she was visiting his Kuluin home he escalated their bond to become physical, the court heard. He pleaded guilty to forcibly and aggressively kissing her, touching her inappropriately, sexually assaulting her and asking her whether he could be her boyfriend.
He was sentenced in 2019 to two years and three months in jail, to serve four months. Blyth s home was raided by police in November last year. Officers discovered he had failed to report five online profiles to social media sites, including Tinder and Twitch. He is ordered to report such things to police as part of his release conditions. The accounts dated back to 2016, during the first suspended sentence and two email addresses he created in 2018. Police also discovered Blyth had failed to inform officers he d attended social gatherings late last year where children were present. He was sentenced in Maroochydore Magistrates Court on February 10 for those charges to 12 months in jail and was given immediate parole.
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A man caught smuggling drugs into prison was behind bars waiting to be dealt with for the horrific, 15 hour-long torture of a woman where she was beaten, cut and doused in petrol.
Ryan Colin Bell, 33, was in custody for the 2019 torture of Sophie Whiteley when he came up with a âmastermindâ plan to have drugs smuggled into Woodford Correctional Centre. Bell and another man âconnedâ two women into smuggling 59 strips of suboxone into the facility in November that year.
One of the women had placed the wrapped drugs in her mouth but was stopped by security guards when entering.