The son of a farmer who shot and killed an environment officer involved in land-clearing prosecutions has been ordered to pay $405,000 by the New South Wales Land and Environment Court in Sydney today.
Grant Wesley Turnbull pleaded guilty to unlawfully clearing 508 hectares of native vegetation at his Croppa Creek property near Moree between January 1 and August 20, 2014.
Turnbull submitted to the court that his sentence should take into account that he and his family had already been punished because his father, Ian Turnbull, was found guilty of the 2014 murder of Glendon Turner.
Ian Turnbull died in jail.
Justice Sandra Duggan rejected the submission on the grounds that the clearing was not the reason his father was convicted.
Check out the whole story … the family is delusional with their victim complex
https://www.smh.com.au/national/an-environmental-worker-was-shot-dead-so-why-do-locals-say-the-murderer-was-the-real-victim-20210503-p57odp.html
Glenn Turner was a hero, following the law and trying to prevent illegal clearing of untouched native Koala habitat. With endangered and rare vegetation .
“You’re not here to do a job,” the man spits. “You’re here to ruin us, to take us to court. It’s not enough that we’ve been in court. You don’t leave us alone.” He jerks the gun forward. Strange feels the implacable eye of it. “All you want to do is just ruin, ruin the Turnbulls.”
The Turnbulls were rich as fuck. There was never any need for them to clear that land.
Altogether, in a modest ad giving few details, the Turnbulls listed nearly 6000 hectares of their land. Aerial satellite photos show the two contentious properties cleared, except a dribble of vegetation around the water gullies, to the margin. Ian Turnbull’s son Roger and his wife Annette sold two of their own properties, Royden and Wallam, in late 2019. Combined, the sales to an American teachers’ pension fund subsidiary made the couple more than $28 million, at $7500 a hectare.
And the family's wealth seems to have grown, the old murderer got what he wanted.
This has truly disgusted me. But thanks for posting more of the story, this murderer and his family should be known, their crimes and their conceit. I'd be ashamed to have any association with anyone who defends that murderer in even the most subtle way.