Cloe Read
Cloe Read is the crime and court reporter at Brisbane Times.
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Man missing from Carnival cruise ship after woman’s death
The search follows the death of a Tasmanian woman, who was also a passenger on the ship bound for Sydney, which was off Queensland’s Moreton Island.
- Cloe Read
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17-year-old charged after pedestrian killed in Brisbane crash
The 38-year-old pedestrian was allegedly struck by a car in Brisbane’s north-east overnight.
- Cloe Read
Childcare predator Ashley Griffith in bid to reduce life sentence
One of Australia’s worst paedophiles, who was jailed for life for sexually assaulting children over 19 years, will face a Court of Appeal hearing next month.
- Cloe Read
A husband lay dead outside his lavish home. Then a desperate text was sent
The 19-year-old’s phone was later traced as being at the luxury house of skincare entrepreneur Gry Tomte the night her partner was stabbed to death.
- Cloe Read
Protester twists banned phrase as crowd rallies for hate-speech accused
A crowd of pro-Palestine activists rally outside a Brisbane court for the first person charged under Queensland’s new hate-speech laws, as one man was warned for holding a sign saying “from the sea to the river”.
- Cloe Read
The 15-minute hearing that changed the reporting of Bruce Lehrmann’s Queensland rape trial
Reporting on Bruce Lehrmann’s Queensland rape case was suppressed for almost three weeks, it can be revealed, in a now-abandoned bid to keep his name out of the press.
- Cloe Read
Teen accused of killing Universal Store founder sees psych in custody
Greg Josephson was found dead at his multimillion-dollar Brisbane home, during a party attended by dozens of teenagers.
- Cloe Read
Report finds judges taking domestic violence seriously, but prison terms unchanged
Despite a range of reforms on the back of a landmark inquiry into how the justice system handled crimes against women, prison terms had not increased.
- Cloe Read
‘Frenzied attack’: Man allegedly thrown off cliff into quarry after stabbing
One of Jai Gray’s alleged killers eventually admitted to police he had pushed the body off a cliff but had not stabbed him, a court has heard.
- Cloe Read
Billionaire facing criminal charges following long-running land dispute
The charges come after a long-running feud between businesses in an industrial area on the banks of the Brisbane River.
- James Hall and Cloe Read