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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.
She said the changing attitudes towards community support could also be having an effect.
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Fifeshire Foundation manager Leanne Churchill, with trustees Sally Hetzel and Nicola Fleitas, holding up some of the care packages prepared by Fifeshire for the Big Give. “With all the community collective feeling, people are actually reaching out, now people who have may have been feeling it before but didn t reach out now feel more comfortable with it.” Not only were more people reaching out for help, Churchill said another sign of difficult times was the drop in individual donations of food and gifts.