Mother of six held in custody

A MOTHER of six burst into tears when she was refused bail by a Toowoomba magistrate on Monday.

Leanne June Oberhardt, 42, appeared in Toowoomba Magistrates Court by video link from the women’s prison and asked for bail.

Her solicitor Chris Neville, of Condon Charles Lawyers, told the court his client was supposed to be sentenced on Friday last week, but he had not been able to take instructions from her via video link.

Mr Neville asked for a date for a sentence hearing.

Oberhardt is accused of being a passenger in a Porsche stolen from a Mt Lofty residence on July 13 and which was subject to a police pursuit through Toowoomba streets during which a Polair police helicopter tracked the vehicle.

Oberhardt has not as yet been called upon to enter pleas to more than 25 charges including four counts of unlawfully using motor vehicles, burglary, stealing, receiving tainted property and assaulting a police officer.

Oberhardt made an impassioned plea from the prison to be granted bail.

“I’ll stay at home 24 hours a day,” she pleaded.

However, Magistrate Damian Carroll refused bail and remanded Oberhardt in custody and adjourned the matters for sentence back in the same court on October 1.