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The NRL star’s mother, Payne Haas, has been sent to a women’s prison after it was discovered that she allegedly violated her probation by evading police before a terrifying crash that killed three people.
Uiatu ‘Joan’ Taufua, 46, was jailed at the Brisbane Women’s Correctional Center on Wednesday after she was seen limping from a police van to the Southport guard house.
The mother of the Brisbane Broncos striker was hospitalized last Friday after he allegedly veered onto the wrong side of the road in a black Mercedes and collided with a white Mercedes while fleeing from police in the inland town of Bonogin. Gold Coast.
She was pulled from the burning wreckage and rushed to Gold Coast University Hospital with extensive external injuries and a bruised rib.
Police charged Taufua with three counts of manslaughter and one count of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle, evading police and driving without a driver’s license.
Retired physician Chris Fawcett, 79, his partner Susan Zimmer, 70, and their daughter Steffanie, 35, were killed in the collision.
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Uiatu ‘Joan’ Taufua (centre) was jailed on Wednesday after her alleged involvement in a car crash that killed three on Friday was found to have breached the conditions of her probation.
Police allege that Taufua swerved into the wrong lane on Bonogin and collided with a car carrying three (pictured, aftermath of the accident)
Taufua was pulled from her burning vehicle (above) as retired physician Chris Fawcett, 79, his partner Susan Zimmer, 70, and their daughter Steffanie, 35, died at the scene.
Taufua’s high-profile lawyer, Leigh Johnson, was expected to file a bail request at a hearing next week, but it was discovered Wednesday that Taufua had allegedly violated the conditions of his probation for prior crimes. mail reports.
The mother pleaded guilty to assaulting two security guards at the Star Casino in September and was sentenced to nine months in jail.
He was granted parole after spending a month behind bars.
On Tuesday afternoon, she was seen getting out of a police van and entering a guardhouse wearing her hospital wrist band, a cast and compression stockings.
Susan Zimmer, 70, and her daughter Steffanie, 35, (pictured together above) died in Friday’s tragic accident.
Retired physician Chris Fawcett, 79, (above) died after Taufua allegedly swerved into the wrong lane
Police filed three manslaughter charges against Taufua on Monday for his alleged role in Friday’s crash (pictured, tributes are left at the crash site)
Footage showed her limping in custody while wearing a baggy T-shirt emblazoned with ‘the world is yours’.
Meanwhile, his son Payne Haas has been granted leave from NRL training to support his family.
Daily Mail Australia does not suggest that he was involved in the accident.
Queensland Police said they have been able to “paint a picture” of how the crash allegedly played out through CCTV and eyewitness accounts.
It will be alleged that Taufua was driving dangerously at high speed in the ’10 minutes before the accident’ before he allegedly swerved onto the wrong side of the road.
Officers had turned on their lights and sirens in the minutes before Taufua crashed, but did not initiate a pursuit due to public safety concerns.
Broncos player Payne Haas (pictured with Leilani Mohenoa) has been granted leave from NRL training to support his family.
Taufua was transferred to the Brisbane Women’s Correctional Center (above) on Wednesday after it was discovered that she allegedly violated her probation.
Police allege that Taufua was driving his black Mercedes (above) “dangerously on the wrong side of the road at high speed.”
“Police allege that (Taufua’s) vehicle was driven in an extremely dangerous manner on the wrong side of the road at high speed,” Senior Sergeant Mark Procter told reporters on Monday.
“The police activated the lights and sirens and when she accelerated and the police followed the procedure and stopped.”
Sergeant Det Sen Procter said officers were informed that Taufua’s car had been involved in an accident 1km further down the road a minute later.
“We have seized a large amount of CCTV and painted a picture of what happened,” he said.
It is understood that Taufua’s license was suspended at the time of the incident.
Witnesses and anyone with dashcam or CCTV footage of the accident or moments before are urged to come forward.