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Laine Clark

Group 'feared COVID fine, didn't report missing friend'

Jeremiah Rivers disappeared after he walked off from a campsite, saying he wanted to have a swim. (PR HANDOUT IMAGE PHOTO) (AAP)

Worried about a COVID border breach fine, a pig hunting group did not report Jeremiah Harold Rivers missing until the day after he disappeared in Queensland's remote southwest, a court has heard.

After arriving at Wippo Creek, near Noccundra, 27-year-old Indigenous man Mr Rivers - known as Jayo - walked away from the campsite, saying he wanted to have a swim.

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