A north Queensland council has made a last-ditch effort to avoid prosecution over the drowning deaths of a father and son at a popular lagoon.
Key points:
- The Whitsunday Regional Council continues to argue it’s been charged under the wrong legislation
- An application to review a magistrate’s decision will be heard later this week
- It could see no party prosecuted over the deaths of the father and son
In 2018, Chinese national Yuawei Zhang and his five-year-old son, Chenxi, were pulled unconscious from…