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A MUM’S worry over a teenage daughter dating a man 20 years her senior was the catalyst for a violent driveway confrontation that led to her daughter’s boyfriend being injured when struck with a spanner.
There was no dispute in court evidence that the mother’s then-boyfriend Matthew Peter Manson, aged 38, struck Toby Daniel Williams, 40, with the spanner and caused an arm injury requiring six stitches at Rosewood on Friday, December 13 2019.
At his trial in Ipswich District Court this week, Manson successfully defended the charge of assault causing bodily harm.
After two days of evidence the jury found him not guilty and Manson was discharged.
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Subscriber only A DAD of six who performed an unwelcome sex act on a woman that he picked up when she was walking to a train station has been convicted of rape. An Ipswich court heard the victim and the offender were complete strangers when he offered her a lift on the night of the offence. Minutes later, they had consensual sex on the back seat, but when Tim Peter Chapman began another sex act on her she resisted, Ipswich District Court heard at his sentence. Tim Peter Chapman, 38, from Leichhardt, pleaded guilty to one count of committing rape on January 19, 2019.
  The sisters stood trial on charges alleging they attempted to enter a dwelling with intent at night/threatening violence when armed with a knife at Lower Tenthill on April 17, 2019; and two charges of common assault. After completion of prosecution evidence, Judge Alexander Horneman-Wren SC instructed the jury that it must find both sisters not guilty of the attempted burglary charge because the case was not made out in the evidence heard by the court in the Crown prosecution case.   The jury formally found them not guilty of that more serious charge. For the offence of common assault, Judge Horneman-Wren sentenced Melanie Middleton to an 18-month supervised probation order.
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