A Supreme Court judge has labelled a Townsville man as 'reckless in the extreme' after he drove at speed into a line of traffic while high on methylamphetamine.\n
A Supreme Court judge has labelled a Townsville man as "reckless in the extreme" after he drove at speed into a line of traffic while high on methylamphetamine.He pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Holly Stewart and Daniel MitchellThe crash on June 23, 2021, at Mutarnee, north of Townsville, killed 26-year-old Bushland Beach woman Holly May Stewart and 23-year-old Atherton man Daniel Graham Mitchell.
Ms Stewart and Mr Mitchell were parked in the southbound lane of the Bruce Highway between Ingham and Townsville when McLennan crashed his Toyota into their cars.Ms Stewart died instantly and Mr Mitchell, who was standing on the road, died within minutes of the crash. Mr Walklate said McLennan was hunched over a bush, where police later found a clip seal bag containing more than 24 grams of methylamphetamine near a bag of needles.
McLennan returned a sample that showed he had methylamphetamine in his blood at the time of the crash.In a victim impact statement submitted to the court, Erica Stewart, spoke of how her two grandchildren Myah and Theo looked for their mother Holly "every day"."There is a gaping hole in my family that should not be there.Millisha-Maree Salvemini wrote that she would "never be the same" after the loss of her brother Daniel.
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