14/08/2026
However Mr Cotene’s defence lawyer Rowan King said his client told him the group chat was a way everyone at the hostel communicated with each other, that he’d been added into it, and it was “just a silly name”.
A French backpacker has been refused bail after allegedly threatening an Israeli hostel guest with a knife in Cairns, in what police claim was a “racially motivated, anti-Semitic” attack.