The Latest Breaking News from Nathan Crane

Two men have been jailed after admitting the manslaughter of Jakob Opacic, the brother of rugby league star Tom Opacic, who was struck while on a motorcycle.

The case of a man accused of murdering Queensland woman Toyah Cordingley near a beach north of Cairns more than four years ago has been mentioned in court.

A mother addresses the second man convicted over the death her 21-year-old son, saying she looks forward to the day she can remember Jay Brogden without being "haunted by the faces of those who took his life".

The Supreme Court in Cairns heard the deceased threatened the accused man's girlfriend with a hammer before he "ran off into the darkness".

The Supreme Court hears that a man being tried for the 2007 murder of Jay Brogden was both a friend and drug dealer to the deceased, but later bragged about feeding the 21-year-old "to the sharks".

The Supreme Court hears evidence from the client of a sex worker charged over the 2020 death of Anthony Brady at a Cairns hotel, with the jury shown images of the scene in which his body was found.

It is alleged the man died of asphyxiation but the court heard the accused is not believed to have been experienced in providing "dominatrix-type services".

A 20-year-old north Queensland man is sentenced to 13 years in prison over two attacks in Townsville that left physical and emotional scars on his victims.

Fifteen years after 21-year-old Jay Brogden disappeared in the Whitsundays, a North Queensland man has been found guilty of his murder.

The Supreme Court briefly adjourns for a murder-accused to recompose himself after falling ill while describing how his friend, Whitsunday man Jay Brogden, was shot in a boat off Shute Harbour during 2007.

A man charged over the death of Jay Brogden in the Whitsundays in 2007 allegedly boasted about the incident in a police interview, a court is told.