JOSHUA Toole, the brother of former NSW Deputy premier and police minister Paul Toole, will spend Christmas a relatively free man after prosecutors again failed to have him locked up ahead of his sentence date for supplying nearly two kilograms of methamphetamine as part of a major ice supply network operating across the Hunter and Central Coast.
Joshua Toole, 40, on Friday walked out of Newcastle courthouse, again managing to delay starting what will inevitably be a lengthy jail term, after his lawyers, barrister April Francis and solicitor Drew Hamilton, fought off yet another prosecution detention application.
