Ice addiction, mates’ murders drove man to $180,000 burglaries

By Everard Himmelreich
Updated July 17 2014 - 7:28am, first published 4:00am
The court heard that shearer Adam Bradley Forbes, 45, now of the Melbourne Remand Centre, received $2700 and half an ounce of marijuana for handling stolen goods at Casterton and stealing a safe full of jewellery from a Coleraine farmhouse in 2012.
The court heard that shearer Adam Bradley Forbes, 45, now of the Melbourne Remand Centre, received $2700 and half an ounce of marijuana for handling stolen goods at Casterton and stealing a safe full of jewellery from a Coleraine farmhouse in 2012.

A MAN involved in two south-west burglaries that netted more than $180,000 did it to fund his ice addiction, Warrnambool County Court was told.

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