Overview
- The 24-year-old appeared in Southport Magistrates Court charged with aggravated contravention of a domestic violence order and breaching bail, and he was remanded in custody after bail was refused.
- Police say a car carrying a man, a woman and two children crashed into bushland at Staplyton before a witness drove the woman and the three-year-old to Beenleigh police station, where the child could not be revived after CPR.
- According to detectives, the man left the crash scene with a one-year-old before officers arrived and was later located at a nearby home.
- A temporary protection order has been in place between the separated parents since June 2024, and prior domestic incidents are part of the ongoing investigation with police appealing for witnesses.
- The court heard conflicting accounts, including the mother's claim the man had a gun and the defence assertion he acted to protect the children, while investigators reported finding no evidence of a weapon.