A 67-year-old Queensland woman has been sentenced to four years in jail for attempting to pervert the course of justice and giving false evidence after helping her son flee a pending trial in Australia.
The investigation found the woman deliberately misled judicial proceedings after her son failed to face court for cocaine importation and trafficking charges in 2015.
Police found she assisted her son in evading authorities by purchasing and preparing a yacht for him to flee on while he was on bail in 2015.
The woman told the Supreme Court in 2016 that she had not contacted her son for several weeks and that her son had taken his own life.
Property and cash totalling $395,000 (which was provided to secure his bail) was forfeited to the court following his disappearance.
The man was…
