Author: Potts Lawyers

Lawyers Backed in Battle to End War on Drugs

Criminal lawyers who have long been calling for an end to the criminalisation of drugs have been backed by a group of eminent Australians.

The Australia21 group, which includes Foreign Affairs Minister Bob Carr and former NSW Director of Public Prosecutions Nicholas Cowdery QC, released a report titled The Prohibition of Illicit Drugs is Killing and Criminalising our Children and We Are Letting It Happen on 3 April, calling for an end to the 40-year war on drugs.

Man in Court over McDonalds Video

A Gold Coast McDonalds manager charged with secretly filming young employees getting dressed in a change-room will be sentenced in May.

Police allege Leigh Shannon Dauncey, 21, blu-tacked a video recording device on a change room shelf at the southern Gold Coast restaurant in February this year.

Road Rage Leaves Family in Fear

A FAMILY of five feared for their lives as a driver tormented them on a major highway in a wild road rage incident.

Bryan Clerk David, 27, believed a father driving another car had cut him off, so he performed a dangerous maneuvre as two lanes moved on to the Centenary Hwy.

Whistle-blowers in Fear of Witch-hunts

A culture of fear among police whistle-blowers has emerged as Queensland’s top cop vowed to hunt the source of an alleged police bashing video.

Police Commissioner Bob Atkinson has pledged a “full, thorough and exhaustive” investigation into the alleged bashing of 21-year-old chef Noa Begic in the bowels of the Surfers Paradise police station. Mr Begic had his hands cuffed behind his back when officers were seen kneeing and punching him.

Finks Bikie Jailed for Drug Trafficking

A FINKS bikie member who supplied an undercover cop with more than $90,000 worth of ecstasy and speed has been jailed for trafficking methamphetamines and MDMA on the Gold Coast.

Darren James Watson last week pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court in Brisbane to two counts of drug trafficking and six counts of supplying a dangerous drug and possession of a Mercedes-Benz motorcycle police said was used as part of the offending.

Bail is Varied To Allow Couple Contact

Expectant Mum ‘Hid Pill Stash’

Luke Royes | 21 January, 2012 | Gold Coast Bulletin

A Runaway Bay woman allegedly strapped about 2kg of illicit drugs to her pregnant belly in an attempt to smuggle them into the country.