Cloe Read

Lee Lovell woke to the sound of his dogs barking. His wife, Emma, checked the security cameras and said the front door was open. Minutes later, she was dead.

Queensland’s Court of Appeal has ordered the acquittal of a man accused of drug trafficking from a Brisbane storage unit, and a retrial on a possession charge.

When asked how he managed to sit in the same room as the accused killer’s family, Lee Lovell said remaining angry and attacking people was not in his nature.

It’s been almost 18 years since the Melbourne mother was killed, and police are sifting through tip-offs following a $500,000 appeal.

In his first public comments since being hit by a car on a busy Brisbane road, a traffic controller has slammed companies over their attitudes to safety.

Firefighters removed one person from the unit, which was fully engulfed in flames just before 10am on Sunday.

Girum Mekonnen, 19, was allegedly killed near a baseball field at O’Callaghan Park in Zillmere in 2020 during a brawl.

“My first response was, how did we sign up for something we didn’t have funding for?” the police commissioner says.

Police have confirmed through a second test that Mam allegedly returned a positive result in a roadside drug test.