THE Gympie region's two courts - District and Magistrates - have heard graphic evidence in some shocking cases this week. Some distressing, some sickening.

OPINION: The infamous Gympie 'crack track' needs to be shut down

As we continue to campaign against the evil of drugs that are gripping this region and communities across Australia, never was the problem more evident than in two of the most terrifying cases brought before our local courts in the past few days.

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If, for some reason, you missed our daily coverage, here are the best and worst of what went to court in Gympie:

1. A violent, drug-linked crack-up caused more than $9000 damage and became an eight-hour police siege at well-known drug address just up the road from a Gympie primary school

READ IT HERE: One man riot became and 8-hour meth siege

2. A man will spend Christmas in jail after a spectacular, ice-induced horror story

FULL STORY: 'Lucky not to be dead': bloody, ice-induced horror story

3. A child sex freak will walk free in one month after spending the past year in jail. His victim was a defenceless five-year-old girl.

STORY HERE: Gympie region man repeatedly sexually assaulted a small child

4. A Gympie thie came up with a cowardly ploy to steal someone else's motorbike and samurai sword.

STORY HERE: He tricked his victim and then punched him and robbed him

5. A Gympie teenager was involved in a violent robbery, trafficking marijuana and supplying MDMA

CLICK HERE: Gympie teen guilty of violence, robbery, supplying MDMA

6. A 2017 report on The Sydney Methamphtemaine Market by the National Drug Law Enforcement Research Fund and written by University of New South Wales researchers revealed the most common method used to synthesise the drug in New South Wales originated in Gympie.

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7. Five years after this Gympie woman's violent, unexplained death, the Qld Coroner continues to refuse to explain the outrageous delay.

CLICK HERE: Radio silence from coroner as Kirra inquest mystery remains

8. This (Friday) morning a 20-year-old Gympie man has walked free from jail after pleading guilty to choking his girlfriend for up to a minute in a fit of rage. More on that story online and in Saturday's edition of The Gympie Times.