Bikies' threat case adjourned

FIVE men with connections to a Hervey Bay bikie gang have just had their district court trial adjourned until October.

Judge Hugh Botting said while the trial had been listed as number one priority for these sittings of the Hervey Bay District Court, the Crown Prosecutor was not in a position to go ahead with the case.

Wide Bay Rebels president Adam Warwick McCrea and associates Peter Ross Hill, Sean Edwin Foster, Mark Darren Berghoffer and Gary Wayne Hyland are accused of threatening Maryborough couple Kris and Emma Bust.

It is alleged the group fronted the pair in their Maryborough tattoo and body piercing store and told them not to open as it would take business away from a Hervey Bay parlour they had a vested interest in.

Judge Botting said the trial had been expected to take at least a week.

He said floods had impacted on the defence and prosecution’s ability to get alternative trials up and running.