THE leader of a local anti-immigration political party running for Wagga council has been convicted of intimidation and remaining on enclosed lands.
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Australia First lead candidate Lorraine Sharp has launched a scathing criticism of her treatment at the hands of the justice system and claimed she is the target of a grand conspiracy involving local police and Legal Aid.
Wagga Local Court found Ms Sharp intimidated a Wagga Rural Referral Hospital security guard on hospital grounds after she refused to leave.
Ms Sharp said she only yelled at a Wagga Hospital nurse when a “notorious Wagga criminal” entered her daughter’s birthing suite and she did not deserve to be frog-marched out.
The white nationalist penned an impassioned defence of her conviction, in which she described Legal Aid as a “social disaster area” responsible for “the long queue of clients paraded through the justice mincer invariably told to plead guilty, whether they are guilty or not”.
“The real fool in Wagga is the client who takes a Legal Aid solicitor,” Ms Sharp said.
“I sacked my private solicitor paid by Legal Aid an hour too late; I found my essential, pivotal instructions just plain ignored.
“Wagga Legal Aid needs to be purged and an Attorney-General task-force should examine false convictions in Wagga.”
Ms Sharp’s outlandish allegations extended to claims she was assaulted by her arresting officer but the video evidence was destroyed.
Police reported Ms Sharp appeared to be under the influence of illicit substances, but she contends an acute allergic reaction stemming from a series of auto-immune diseases made her look drug addled.
The intimidation and remaining on enclosed lands convictions come months after she was found guilty of driving with cannabis in her system and disqualified from driving for three months.
Ms Sharp strongly contested the merits of that conviction as well, telling the magistrate she was self-medicating and the presence of drugs in her system related to “environmental factors”.
Ms Sharp intends to represent herself when she appeals the conviction at the District Court. Australia First chairman Jim Saleam is a former neo-Nazi who was convicted of organising a shotgun attack on the home of an Australian representative of the African National Congress.