
Cloe Read
Crime and Court Reporter at Brisbane Times
Crime and court reporter @brisbanetimes | [email protected]
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By Cloe Read June 25, 2025 — 11.12am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A judge has ordered that Bruce Lehrmann’s bid to have his Queensland rape case thrown out be heard in court in a matter of weeks, amid claims his previous lawyer’s phone calls were obtained illegally. The former federal Liberal Party staffer is accused of raping a woman he met at a Toowoomba nightclub on a drug-fuelled night in 2021.
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watoday.com.au | Cloe Read |Courtney Kruk |William Davis |Rosanna Ryan
Key postsHide key postsGo to latestFormer IR minister hits back at Bleijie’s claimsLabor’s former industrial relations minister Grace Grace has responded to calls to condemn CFMEU protesters, saying “there is no place” for abusive behaviour in the union movement.
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By Cloe Read June 24, 2025 — 11.16am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Bruce Lehrmann is fighting to have his Toowoomba rape case thrown out of court, with claims that phone calls between him, his lawyers and police were obtained illegally. Lehrmann was committed to stand trial last year over allegations he raped a woman he met on a drug-fuelled night in 2021 at a nightclub in Toowoomba, west of Brisbane.
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By Cloe Read June 23, 2025 — 3.05pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Prosecutors in the case against a Queensland social media influencer accused of deliberately poisoning her one-year-old daughter are due to disclose further DNA evidence relating to a pill seized by police in hospital.
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brisbanetimes.com.au | Cloe Read
The head of the Brisbane Broncos’ media team will face court after allegedly drink-driving and crashing a car into parked vehicles, a couple of minutes’ drive from the team’s headquarters in Red Hill. Melissa Mallet, 39, was allegedly driving a white Kia Sorrento on June 2 about 9.45pm when it crashed into two cars on Tooth Avenue in Paddington in Brisbane’s western suburbs. It was less than two kilometres from the Broncos headquarters in Red Hill.
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