‘Wilsonton Nine’ pair back before city court

TWO members of the infamous “Wilsonton Nine” have appeared back before a Toowoomba Court.

Lynn Fay Jean Anderson, 29, and Ashley Aaron Fing, 28, made separate appearances before Toowoomba Magistrates Court on Friday in relational to separate matters.

Anderson stood quietly beside solicitor Brad Skuse, of Skuse Graham Lawyers, who acted as “friend of the court” for Anderson and asked for a four-week adjournment.

Anderson has been charged with four counts of fraud, and one count each of uttering counterfeit money, receiving tainted property and stealing.

She was not required to enter any pleas to the charges and no details of the police allegations were aired in court.

Magistrate Graham Lee remanded her on bail and adjourned her matters for mention back in the same court on November 12.

Ashley Fing was not required to appear in court on charges of high-range drink driving and disqualified driving and was also represented by Mr Skuse who asked for an adjournment.

Police claim Fing was driving while disqualified and allegedly with a breath/alcohol reading above 0.2 at Gladstone earlier this year.

Fing appeared in the same court in June to plead guilty to driving with a breath/alcohol reading of 0.246 while demerit point suspended in Harristown in May.

For those matters, he was fined $1800 and disqualified from holding or obtaining a driver’s licence for six months.

Fing, who has been living in Brisbane, has not been required as yet to enter pleas to his latest charges, and Mr Lee adjourned his matters for mention back in the same court on November 5.

Fing and Anderson were among nine people dubbed “The Wilsonton Nine” who were each charged with murder and associated matters arising from the death of Toowoomba mother and grandmother Debbie Combarngo who was found beaten to death inside a Wilsonton unit on the afternoon of May 6, 2018.

After legal argument by representatives for each accused, the nine pleaded guilty to manslaughter and associated charges and received varying sentences.

Lynn Anderson and Ashley Fing were each sentenced to five years in jail, suspended after the 906 days they had already spent in custody, with the balance to hang over their heads for five years.

Each was also placed on three years probation.