Patrick Billings

A Brisbane woman charged with murdering her terminally ill husband has pleaded guilty to aiding suicide – less serious offending which the court recognised was born out of “love and affection” not malice or ulterior motive.

A former Toowoomba Grammar student whose promising football career was cut short precipitating his descent into cocaine trafficking has walked from court after spending nearly $15,000 on weekly urine tests to demonstrate he’d changed.

Shocking footage of a community stalwart’s life being brutally cut short by two drunk thugs throwing cheap shots has been played before a grieving family that remembered a victim who had stepped up as a father figure when his own dad was killed in an unsolved murder.

Five months after he murdered his partner a Brisbane Zumba teacher ever so subtly slipped on a police question caught on body camera and obtained by The Courier-Mail.

A dance teacher has been found guilty of murdering his partner after standing trial in Brisbane.

A Zumba instructor on trial for allegedly murdering his partner checked the timing of the new moon an hour after police took a photo of his front yard – where the Crown claims he thought of burying the woman or had perhaps concealed a murder weapon – then dug up the soil in the following days, a court has heard.

A Brisbane Zumba teacher told police the beauty queen he’s accused of murdering wasn’t a nice person and that the “illegal alien” was earning money from “some sort of illegal, dodgy internet thing”.

A speeding driver intoxicated on a deadly mix of alcohol and drugs who crashed into a family riding bikes killing a young boy and severely injuring his father on the Gold Coast was “thrill” seeking, the Crown says.

On the night he allegedly murdered his partner in Brisbane’s north a Zumba teacher discussed an upcoming ice skating date with his new, younger girlfriend, a court has heard.

A man who was allegedly violently assaulted on the archipelago off Brisbane “may well die” a court has heard.