Patrick Billings

Mar 29, 2025 | couriermail.com.au | Patrick Billings

Police & CourtsDon't miss out on the headlines from Police & Courts. Followed categories will be added to My News. A mother who tortured her own baby with a hot hair dryer and threatened to kill her other child – who kept her own medical kit handy – was engaged in an evil, malevolent and gratuitous level of violence fuelled by a love of meth that she prioritised over her own kids, a court has heard.

Jul 4, 2024 | couriermail.com.au | Patrick Billings

Police & CourtsDon't miss out on the headlines from Police & Courts. Followed categories will be added to My News. The death of a man burnt to 90 per cent of his body after his e-scooter “exploded” into “a huge ball of flames” is a tragic reminder to use only appropriate battery chargers, a coroner says. The non-inquest findings into the death of a young man known as Tyson heard he obtained a second hand Zero 10 electric scooter without a charging device about two weeks before his death.

Apr 5, 2024 | couriermail.com.au | Patrick Billings

Police & CourtsDon't miss out on the headlines from Police & Courts. Followed categories will be added to My News. An “absolute tragedy” of stupid decision-making that led to a “drunken rampage” involving attempts to throw a defenceless older man off a balcony has seen the offender jailed.

Mar 27, 2024 | couriermail.com.au | Patrick Billings

An interstate child molester subject to sex offender reporting in NSW travelled to Queensland and allegedly sexually assaulted a girl on a cruise, a court has heard. David Carl Ewen appeared in Brisbane Magistrates Court on Thursday charged with two counts of indecent treatment of children under 16. Queensland Police opposed a bail application by the 56-year-old.

Mar 24, 2024 | couriermail.com.au | Patrick Billings

A man has pleaded guilty to attempting to aid the suicide of a woman in Brisbane. Chadd Benjamin Thomas Gardener faced Brisbane Magistrates Court on Monday for a committal proceeding. The court heard he attempted to aid a woman in killing herself at Aspley in November 2022. The woman did not suicide. Legal Aid duty lawyer Megan Jones conceded there was a prima facie case against her client and consented to him being committed.