August 18, 2026 — 5:04pm
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Joshua Binstead was a father, a junkie, a career criminal and fresh out of prison.
It made him, on paper, the ideal person for an organised crime cartel to hire as an enforcer to send a message to small Midland tobacco shop owner who refused to sell their illegal cigarettes.
The 48-year-old refuses to say whether that is indeed what he was recruited to do when he rammed a stolen ute into the front of the Great Eastern Highway business in October 2024 before setting it on fire.
But the fact the same shop owner had…
Read the full article at SMH.COM.AU
