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A mine worker confronted a manager at a Central Queensland mechanical business and threatened to shoot him in the head.
The heated confrontation happened at a Blackwater workshop last November, and last Thursday the man who instigated the incident, David John Retford, 32, pleaded guilty in Yeppoon Magistrates Court to his offending.
The court heard that on November 4, Retford attended the Blackwater business and asked to see the workshop manager.
He exited the office and walked around to a workshop yard where he approached the manager.
A verbal argument followed.
“It seems a workplace dispute involved a relative of the defendant,” Sgt Dalton said.
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Premium Content A MAN who allegedly threatened to kill his partner and her children by burning down their house has been granted bail. The 20-year-old man, who cannot be named to protect his alleged victims, was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly breaching a domestic violence order. Police allege the man contacted the aggrieved and made threats to kill her and her children, and threatened to burn their house down. Late Tuesday night, police were called to a house fire at Wulguru and established a crime scene. The house is believed to be the residence of the aggrieved.
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A woman drove unlicensed, in an unregistered and uninsured car, to collect cash from a cousin.
Oriel Alisha Malcolm, 28, had never held a driver’s licence when she was intercepted driving on Card St, Berserker, at 10.50pm on April 7 in a Holden Commodore which had no registration plates attached.
Malcolm pleaded guilty on April 22 in Rockhampton Magistrates Court to the traffic offences.
Police prosecutor Sergeant Darrell Dalton said the vehicle’s registration expired on November 1, 2020.
He said despite having a traffic history and never having held a licence, Malcolm did not have prior convictions for unlicensed driving.