Ms Brown, 24, died after her former partner Lionel Patea ran her off the road in a suburban Gold Coast street in September, 2015. Protesters outside court this morning. Earlier this morning Patea ...

Lionel Patea is accused of running 24-year-old Tara Brown off the road and beating her with a pole last Tuesday on the Gold Coast in Queensland. Mr Patea reportedly stabbed himself during the ...

THEY grew up as footy-mad brothers and became killers, with the elder’s taste for violence leading to a pair of brutal murders. Brothers Lionel and Nelson Patea were the younger cousins of ...

Former Bandido bikie Lionel Patea has pleaded guilty to the bashing murder of his ex-partner Tara Brown on the Gold Coast. Patea ran Ms Brown's car off a road at Molendinar on the Gold Coast in ...

In 2015, Australia was rocked by another horrifying crime of intimate partner violence when Gold Coast man Lionel Patea brutally murdered his ex-partner, Tara Brown. Brown had just dropped the ...

Tara Brown, 24, died after she was run off a Gold Coast road by Lionel Patea on September 8, 2015. While she lay trapped in her car, Patea repeatedly bashed her with a steel fire hydrant cover.

Source: AAP Lionel Patea has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his former partner Tara Brown on the Gold Coast in September 2015. Patea unexpectedly pleaded guilty in the Brisbane ...

In 2011 she started a relationship with Lionel John Patea and a year later the young couple welcomed their first child together, a little girl whose name was suppressed by the court. Photos of the ...

New Zealand-born Tara Brown was living on the Gold Coast. Photo / via Facebook Lionel Patea has pleaded guilty to murdering Kiwi-born woman Tara Brown. Patea was set to go on trial today in ...

Lionel Patea has been charged with killing Tara Brown as well as a second, unrelated murder. Photo: Supplied However, Mr Hall for the first time confirmed he was with family members who went to ...

Lionel Patea, 28, who savagely beat his girlfriend to death, has been given the green light to sue a global prison giant for what he claims are permanent injuries. The former Bandidos bikie gang ...

Lionel Patea, 25, pleaded guilty in the Southport Magistrates Court on Wednesday after pouring boiling water on the inmate at the Arthur Gorrie Correctional Centre near Wacol in May this year.