A Unanderra woman has avoided jail after pleading guilty to assaulting the young girlfriend of a man who accused her son of stealing a motorbike.
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The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, ran at the girl with a candelabra in her hand before punching her three times in the face with a closed fist while threatening to kill her during the confrontation on the evening of September 7 last year.
Police documents tendered to Wollongong Local Court said the girl’s boyfriend had had a motorbike stolen from his house the night before and strongly suspected the Unanderra woman’s teenage son was responsible.
He sent the boy a Facebook message with the accusation, prompting the teen to invite him to come around to the house to talk.
When the man arrived later that night with his girlfriend and two other friends in tow, the teen became aggressive, saying “I didn’t steal you’re f—king bike”.
The man responded “I know you did it c—t, everyone has told me it was you, the least you can do is admit it”.
The boys continued to yell at each other, prompting the female victim to push the teen in the chest, causing him to fall backwards. The girl then attempted to punch the teen but missed.
However, the boy’s mother, believing the girl had hit her son, stormed out of the house armed with a wrought iron candelabra yelling “I’m going to kill you, slut”.
She dropped the weapon before getting to the girl, however punched her three times when she got hold of her. The girl retreated back to the car.
The court heard the teen stabbed the girl’s boyfriend in the stomach during the melee. The man was driven straight to hospital.
The woman pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm in court on Friday, with her lawyer suggesting the victim in the matter had “not been entirely blameless”.
Magistrate Michael Stoddart handed the woman a three-month suspended sentence.