Two men sentenced to over a decade for brutal home invasion in Maryborough

In a case that shocked the Maryborough community, Joshua Snow and Joshua Day were convicted of multiple crimes related to a home invasion that occurred in December 2023. The men, who had smoked methamphetamine, broke into the couple’s residence wielding sawn-off shotguns and demanded payment for an alleged $5,000 debt. During the ordeal, Snow ordered the male victim to tie an extension cord around his partner’s neck, forced him to urinate on her, and made him walk her around like a dog, while a child upstairs listened and later messaged his father.

Snow also threatened to burn the children and to have another man rape the female victim, and used a meat cleaver and a syringe as weapons. The judge, John Kelly, described the conduct as “cartoonishly gratuitous” and highlighted the lasting psychological harm, including PTSD and psychiatric hospitalization for the victims. Both defendants received lengthy sentences—Snow 11 years and four months with a seven-year non-parole period, Day nine years and four months with a six-and-a-half-year non-parole period—after already spending over two and a half years in custody.