Dad finds needles at children's park in Wauchope

Letitia Fitzpatrick
Updated January 13 2017 - 2:08pm, first published January 12 2017 - 6:11am
Matt and Jake Tonkin were at the park when Matt spotted the needles.
Matt and Jake Tonkin were at the park when Matt spotted the needles.

A Wauchope father was horrified to find drug-injecting equipment when he took his son to a park off the Oxley Highway.

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Letitia Fitzpatrick

Letitia Fitzpatrick

Senior journalist, Wauchope Gazette

Worked as a journalist and assistant producer for BBC news and current affairs in the UK, Ulster Television, Q Radio and the Irish News in Northern Ireland. Moved to Australia and joined Fairfax Media in 2016. Won a Rotary Paul Harris Fellowship award in 2018 for reporting the Pappinbarra bushfires and the subsequent Rotary appeal which raised $30,000.

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