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Cafe boss and workers fined $335,000 over bullied waitress Brodie Panlock’s suicide

The cafe boss and three workers accused of relentlessly bullying 19-year-old waitress Brodie Panlock and driving her to commit suicide in 2006 were fined $335,000 by a court in Melbourne, Australia. Nicholas Smallwood, 26, Rhys MacAlpine, 28, and Gabriel Toomey, 23, all pleaded guilty to failing to take reasonable care for the health [...]