A 50-year-old central Queensland man is given a suspended sentence for a malicious act of intent — during which he inflicted injuries upon a love rival with a machete — after an appeal late last year quashed his original conviction of attempted murder.
A 50-year-old central Queensland man has pleaded guilty to a malicious act of intent after attacking a love rival with a machete in the Rockhampton region during 2019.Central Queensland man Daniel John Shields was sentenced to three years and two months prison — fully suspended — for the downgraded charge
Daniel John Shields was in 2020 found guilty of attempted murder over the incident in Gracemere, but he successfully appealed that conviction in November last year and a re-trial was ordered. The court heard that in February 2019 Mr Shields travelled to the home of Raymond Jarvis to ask the man's ex-partner to pick up her things from his house.
The court heard when Mr Shields began dating her, he was then himself subjected to sustained abuse from Mr Jarvis. "It seems that you had endured, over a lengthy period of time, provocation, not only from Jarvis, but also from [the woman]," Justice Davis said. Mr Shields then travelled to Mr Jarvis' house, expecting to find his ex-partner so he could again ask her to remove her things from the house.
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