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Daily Mail
23-04-2025
- Daily Mail
Update on driver accused of highway carjacking spree in Queensland
A man accused of a series of horrifying carjackings and a fatal crash has been released from hospital and will remain behind bars. Bradley Donald Towle, 41, is facing 15 charges including dangerous driving causing death while intoxicated after a string of alleged incidents on Queensland 's Sunshine Coast on Monday. Mr Towle is accused of causing a six-vehicle crash on a major highway north of Brisbane that killed a 22-year-old woman. She has been identified in court documents as Jocelyn Grace Mollee. He sustained head and body injuries during the incident and, after his arrest, was taken to Sunshine Coast University Hospital where he remained under police guard. Criminal defence solicitor Ben Rynderman told reporters outside the Maroochydore Court on Wednesday that his client had left hospital and been taken to jail. 'This is of course a very serious matter,' he said. 'It's obviously very serious and tragic and it will be treated with the seriousness and the gravity that it is.' There has been no application for bail and Magistrate Rodney Madsen remanded Mr Towle in custody before his next mention on June 30 at Maroochydore. 'I imagine police will compile a comprehensive brief of evidence that will be very detailed and we will assess that brief on its merits,' Mr Rynderman said. Court documents state Mr Towle had declined to participate in a mental health assessment offered by a court liaison service. Mr Towle allegedly caused the multi-vehicle crash on Easter Monday when the red Porsche Macan he was driving struck the side of a Nissan Micra. Ms Mollee was a passenger in the Nissan and later died of her injuries. Mr Towle allegedly shot a 62-year-old Branyan man in the arm after he stopped to help and stole his SsangYong Rexton. He then allegedly crashed that vehicle within 25 minutes and carjacked a Mazda 3, which was being driven by a 16-year-old female learner driver and her parents. The teen and her parents fled the vehicle and were not harmed. Police then arrested Mr Towle at gunpoint at about 12.48pm at the intersection of Steve Irwin Way and Forestry Road, Landsborough. Footage showed officers yelling at Mr Towle, who appeared to be bleeding, to 'get down' and 'put your hands behind your back'. Police allege officers found a single-barrel break-action shotgun in the Mazda that was used during the previous offences. Court documents seen by the Courier Mail alleged ammunition, GHB, meth and Australian currency suspected of being tainted property were also seized. Sunshine Coast Police Chief Inspector Jason Overland described the crash as 'terrible' and said there has been an outpouring of tributes to Ms Mollee. 'She was a beautiful young woman, gentle soul, and a hard worker. She was going to be a pillar of society,' her mum, Amanda Chippendale, told the Courier Mail. 'She was smart, she was kind, she had a wicked sense of humour, a sense of adventure. She wanted to live life to the fullest. 'She could make people talk and she could make people laugh. She had a love of books and loved nature.'
7NEWS
23-04-2025
- 7NEWS
Mother pays tribute to daughter, Jocelyn Grace Mollee, killed in Easter Monday crash in Palmview, Queensland
The heartbroken mother of a young woman killed in a horrific Queensland crash has remembered her daughter as a 'gentle' and 'smart' and said she lived life to the fullest. Jocelyn Grace Mollee, 22, was killed d uring a six-car crash on the Bruce Hwy in Palmview on the Sunshine Coast, allegedly caused by a man who went on a carjacking rampage under the influence of drugs before shooting a man in the arm on Easter Monday. The crash claimed the life of Mollee, who was a passenger in a car driven by a 22-year-old man, who was also injured in the crash. 'She was a beautiful young woman, gentle soul, and a hard worker. She was going to be a pillar of society,' Mollee's mother, Amanda Chippendale, told The Courier-Mail. 'My heart is shattered. We're broken into a million pieces.' Mollee was in her fourth year of a chemical engineering degree at the University of Queensland, with a focus on water quality. Chippendale said making sure people would survive because they had sufficient and quality water was her daughters' passion. 'She could make people talk and she could make people laugh. She had a love of books and loved nature,' she said. 'Gone but not forgotten, my baby girl.' Bradley Donald Towle, 41, is alleged to have caused the deadly crash, before approached a white SsangYong Rexton with a gun, shooting the 62-year-old driver in the arm, before stealing his car. The Ssangyong was found flipped on its roof after a crash about 10 minutes drive away, near Forestry Rd in Landsborough, just after 12.30pm. Police allege Towle then stole another car, a grey Mazda 3, from a 16-year-old Newmarket girl who was having a driving lesson with her parents. He was arrested on Steve Irwin Wy at Landsborough, with police bodycam vision showing officers producing a loaded shot gun found in the Mazda. Towle's was hospitalised under police guard and charged with 15 offences, including dangerous driving causing death and armed robbery. His case was briefly mentioned in Maroochydore Magistrates Court on Tuesday, and he is ecpected to front court again on Wednesday once released from hospital. Police said investigations are continuing, and further charges were likely.
Sky News AU
22-04-2025
- Sky News AU
Young Queensland student killed in horrific Porsche rampage on Bruce Highway identified following Easter Monday tragedy
A Queensland family has been left shattered after a Porsche driver went on a violent rampage on the Bruce Highway, allegedly causing a disastrous six-car pileup turned shooting that killed 22-year-old student Jocelyn Grace Mollee. The Easter Monday frenzy unfolded in a matter of minutes, with police alleging the driver of a red Porsche Macan first caused a six-vehicle crash in the southbound lanes of the Bruce Highway at Palmview. Ms Mollee was riding passenger in a Nissan Micra when the Porsche collided with her side of the vehicle She died later from her injuries. The Porsche driver, Bradley Donald Towle, 41, of Tewantin exited the Porsche and approached a white SsangYong Rexton, whilst armed with a firearm, after the driver had left the car to help those involved in the crash. He allegedly shot the 62-year-old Rexton driver before stealing his car. After totalling the Rexton, he then allegedly approached a grey Mazda 3, still armed, forcing the 16-year-old learner driver, along with her parents, to flee from the vehicle. Towle was arrested at the intersection of Steve Irwin Way and Forestry Road, Landsborough at 12.48pm – 38 minutes after he first collided with Ms Mollee and caused a cataclysmic road tragedy. Queensland Police released body-worn camera footage that captured the moment officers apprehended the 41-year-old. Ms Mollee was in her fourth year of a chemical engineering degree, her mum Amanda Chippendale remembering her as a 'beautiful young woman, gentle soul, and a hard worker". 'She was going to be a pillar of society,' Ms Chippendale told The Courier Mail. 'She could make people talk and she could make people laugh. She had a love of books and loved nature. 'My heart is shattered. We're broken into a million pieces. Gone but not forgotten my baby girl.' Towle has been charged with 15 offences related to the shooting and car crash, including armed robbery, dangerous operation of a vehicle causing death and unlawful possession of a firearm used to commit an indictable offence. He has also been charged with the dangerous operation of a vehicle adversely affected by an intoxicating substance and two counts of possessing dangerous drugs. He sustained injuries in the crash and has been in hospital under police guard.
