News about James Mackay

After being found that he notified emergency service workers on June 24, 2022, James Mackay (pictured, right) was sentenced to three years and two months in prison in Bournemouth Crown Court. Following a day of heavy drinking, the former chef managed to injure himself, but the ambulance team continued to assist him, unleashing a racist and misogynistic tirade and spat at them before assaulting a woman in the back of the ambulance. The perpetrator's horrific activities were caught on the victim's body camera (screengrab seen, left) and the video was played in court. Last June, the ambulance was delivering him to Poole Hospital in Dorset.

After a council compliance officer had issued a warning to stop and clear the area, a 'guerilla' vegetable patch was planted in St Lucia's Playground Park, Brisbane, but only for a local resident to start dismantling it. The local resident said she had received "quite a few complaints" from concerned community members (right), and she was there to check the condition of a cricket pitch below used by local children in a 13-minute video uploaded by community gardening group Growing Forward (left and inset).