Legal

YOUNG MAN DIES FOLLOWING PUB FIGHT HEAD INJURY

Posted on March 19th, 2018 by Clyde Mooney
Police are investigating the suspicious death of a 21-year-old man following his involvement in a fight in and outside a local pub. On Saturday morning (17 March) local stonemason Sam Leschke was found dead at his parents’ house, where he

POLICE RELEASE IMAGES IN PURSUIT OF ‘JACKPOT BANDITS’

Posted on February 14th, 2018 by Clyde Mooney
Queensland Police have released further information and an image of a man, in the pursuit of the so-called “Jackpot Bandits” linked to the armed robbery of multiple late-night hotels. Detectives from Operation Quebec Point report they have linked the bandits

COP STABBED AND PERP SHOT DEAD IN MAROUBRA HOTEL

Posted on January 29th, 2018 by Clyde Mooney
Maroubra Junction Hotel was in turmoil on Australia Day, as a mis-handled arrest led to one officer being stabbed twice and the perpetrator shot dead in a crowded beer garden. After failing to appear in Penrith Court last Wednesday to

PUBLICAN JAILED OVER PREMIER HOTEL FRAUD AND ARSON

Posted on January 17th, 2018 by Clyde Mooney
The failed owner of Albany’s historic Premier Hotel has pleaded guilty and received ten years over a scam to fake a robbery and arson in order to claim insurance. Mid-2016 news emerged that lessee Graeme Roderick Cooper – new operator

MAN AWAITS TRIAL OVER ONE-PUNCH DEATH AT THE ENTRANCE

Posted on January 15th, 2018 by Clyde Mooney
The Entrance business owner George Habkouk is awaiting trial over the death on New Year’s Day of Haydn Butcher outside a central coast hotel. Wyong Local Court has heard preliminary details of the incident in the early hours of New

RANDOM ACTS OF VIOLENCE DEMONSTRATE CHANCE

Posted on December 13th, 2017 by Clyde Mooney
A spate of unlikely violent incidents highlights the unpredictable nature of random acts by people on people, and the near-impossible ask of controlling for everything. In September, 18-year-old Brody David Marston went to the Currimundi Hotel with his brother, drinking

PLUCKY PATRON FOILS BANDITS WITH BAR STOOL

Posted on November 29th, 2017 by Clyde Mooney
A dangerous situation in an east-Brisbane pub has been fended off courtesy of bumbling bandits and a gaming patron with a big stool. Around 11:30 on Monday night (27 November) two masked men entered Coles’ Lord Stanley Hotel on Stanley

HISTORIC AMBASSADOR HOTEL CAUGHT IN BANKRUPTCY DISPUTE

Posted on November 29th, 2017 by Clyde Mooney
Adelaide property aristocracy the Polites family is embroiled in a dispute over the failed tenant at its heritage-listed Ambassadors Hotel. The majestic Ambassadors Hotel has been a dominant sight on King William Street in the heart of Adelaide since 1881.

FATHER & SON PUBLICANS JAILED FOR ARSON

Posted on November 20th, 2017 by Clyde Mooney
The father and son team accused of torching their Ravenswood pub for the insurance money have been convicted and sentenced. A fire on 9 June 2014 destroyed the Junction Hotel, owned by the Jansen family. In the following months, police