Qld: Father of three children faces court

AAP General News (Australia)
08-16-2000
Qld: Father of three children faces court

Changing keyword from Children to McDonald



BRISBANE, Aug 16 AAP - A Queensland man today appeared in court charged with threatening
to kill his three children.

Mark McDonald, 37, faced three counts of writing threats to kill when he appeared in
the Mackay Magistrates Court in north Queensland.

It followed McDonald's week-long disappearance with his three children, aged five,
three and two, after he had picked them up from their mother's home on an access visit.

The charges were believed to be related to a note found last week by police together
with the family's abandoned vehicle and belongings.

McDonald was found with his three children at a house yesterday at Doonan, west of
Noosa, in Queensland's Sunshine Coast hinterland.

The children were unharmed and were flown with their father back to Mackay last night.

McDonald was not required to plead and was remanded in custody to appear in court in
Mackay again on Friday.

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