Queensland attorney general orders prosecutors to appeal against two ‘manifestly inadequate’ sentences

Deb Frecklington says punishments, including one for a man who wrapped a rope around a woman’s neck and forced her into a car, ‘fail to meet community expectations’

Queensland’s attorney general has ordered state prosecutors to appeal against two “manifestly inadequate” sentences handed down for high-profile crimes committed in 2023.

Deb Frecklington, also the state’s minister for justice and for integrity, said the two sentences “in my view, fail to meet community expectations”.

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