Basically, the victim was just sitting there and gets belted, unprovoked. He (the accused) just laid into him, punching him in the head. Sergeant Edwards said the accused had been involved in an earlier incident that had nothing to do with the victim and that he got the wrong person . He said the French national is believed to be on a working visa. Sergeant Edwards said it was another example of a spike in severe incidents of violence within the Coast s safe night precincts. The accused was released on bail with conditions and is due to face the Maroochydore Magistrates Court on May 5.
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Subscriber only A RESIDENT of the City View Hotel in Ipswich has been granted bail following an Easter Monday incident that resulted in a man suffering a broken ankle. Rodney Arthur Clements, 38, from West Ipswich, appeared via watch-house video-link before Ipswich Magistrates Court on Tuesday charged with committing an assault causing grievous bodily harm at Brisbane St on Monday, April 5. Prosecutor Senior Constable Bridie O Shea said police opposed bail. Written police facts were handed up to Magistrate David Shepherd to read. Nothing of the allegation was read onto the public record. In making the bail application, lawyer Matthew Fairclough said Clements resided at the hotel and would abide by any curfew if bail was granted.
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UPDATE: A JURY has returned a verdict of not guilty in the case of Gilbert James Neho, who stood trial on a Crown prosecution charge of grievous bodily harm.
The charge arose from a birthday party at Collingwood Park in April 2016.
Less than an hour after retiring to consider the case heard before Ipswich District Court, the jury returned to deliver the not guilty verdict on Thursday before Judge Dennis Lynch QC.
Mr Neho was formerly absolved and left the courtroom.
EARLIER: A MAN is defending charges of grievous bodily harm that arose from a birthday party that turned violent in Ipswich in 2016.
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Subscriber only The case against a man accused of injuring an eight-week-old baby in his care at Casino has been withdrawn. The 23-year-old man was arrested in May 2019 after police were notified when a two-month-old boy presented at Lismore Base Hospital with life-threatening injuries and was subsequently transferred to the Queensland Children s Hospital. The baby was later released, and alternate care arrangements were made. The man, who is known to the boy, had pleaded not guilty to recklessly causing grievous bodily harm at Lismore District Court in July last year. He was set to go to trial this week in the Lismore District Court.