{"id":67730,"date":"2026-08-08T11:03:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T11:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/67730\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T11:03:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T11:03:21","slug":"alleged-torturers-to-apply-for-bail-after-details-emerge-of-teenagers-bashing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/67730\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged torturers to apply for bail after details emerge of teenager’s bashing"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 15-year-old alleged torturer will be assessed for an electronic monitoring device in an attempt to apply for bail, while the court has heard several co-accused also intend to apply for bail, after a 17-year-old with an intellectual disability was found bashed, zip-tied and wrapped in plastic in bushland<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Seven co-accused faced Townsville Magistrates Court charged with a string of offences including torture after the teenager was found in bushland in Pallarenda on July 18.<\/p>\n

The police prosecutor told the court several people were gathered at a house when two relatives of the victim made allegations about the victim, which led to the alleged assault.<\/p>\n

The prosecutor said the group, which had moments before been socialising, allegedly kicked the victim and whipped him with a “horse whip” leaving him “crawling out onto the road”.<\/p>\n

Police allege the assault continued, with more alleged perpetrators arriving in a vehicle and allegedly continuing to strike the victim with a bat and a metal implement and stomping on him.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

The victim was allegedly dumped in bushland near Pallarenda in Townsville. (ABC News: James Tugwell)<\/p>\n

Police allege the victim was then wrapped in industrial clear plastic with his legs zip-tied together, put in the boot of a vehicle before being dumped in bushland.<\/p>\n

Police prosecutor Harriet Hearn told the court the victim needed surgery as he had sustained a broken nose, spinal fracture, fractured tibia, friction burns, and lacerations.<\/p>\n

Days after prior offending<\/p>\n

The court was told the accused 15-year-old allegedly committed the torture offence the day after receiving a warning from the court for other offending.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

The victim required surgery after sustaining multiple injuries. (ABC News: James Tugwell)<\/p>\n

“This is some of the most serious types of offences we might see in this court \u2026 yet alone offences that have been committed by a juvenile,” Ms Hearn said.<\/p>\n

The 15-year-old’s defence lawyer, Sarah Belford, said the case against her client was “circumstantial” and that he was party to the offences, not a participant.<\/p>\n

Police allege his fingerprints were found on the industrial plastic wrap.<\/p>\n

‘Outrageous’ allegationsPolice charge 11 people after teen bashed, wrapped in plastic and \u2018dumped\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

Eleven people have been charged after a 17-year-old boy was bashed and dumped wrapped in plastic in bushland in Townsville.<\/p>\n

Magistrate Steven Mosch said the 15-year-old had a “limited” but “recent” criminal history and that the “exceptionally serious” new charges were an “escalation”.<\/p>\n

“The allegations are outrageous,” he said.<\/p>\n

Magistrate Mosch said it could be 12 months before the matters were finalised before the court, but he needed assurance the 15-year-old would comply with bail conditions, if granted.<\/p>\n

The matter was adjourned to August 13 for Youth Justice to carry out a suitability assessment for the use of an electronic monitoring device for the 15-year-old.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, police will check the suitability of the addresses submitted by three co-accused who intend to apply for bail. Their cases were adjourned to August 10.<\/p>\n

The cases of another three co-accused were also adjourned until August 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 15-year-old alleged torturer will be assessed for an electronic monitoring device in an attempt to apply for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2304,22,21,1113,1109,87673,70006,5177,1047,30460,22572],"class_list":["post-67730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-assault","tag-au","tag-austrlia","tag-bail","tag-court","tag-disabled-teenager-tortured","tag-electronic-monitoring","tag-magistrates-court","tag-police","tag-torture","tag-townsville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}