Quarantine breacher allegedly claimed he had a sick relative in WA, but just wanted to go fishing: police

Police say the real motive of a 56-year-old Queensland man, who was allowed to enter Western Australia after allegedly telling authorities he needed to care for a sick relative, was to go fishing.

Donald Thomas Jones has been travelling around Australia in a caravan since August last year and breached quarantine laws in WA on three separate occasions, including two trips to a country pub.

He was fined $1,500 on Thursday after appearing in the Kalgoorlie Magistrate’s Court,…