A second person has been sentenced for her part in a violent attack outside Wagga’s Gurwood Street Woolworths earlier this year.
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Alyse Bowe, 30, was convicted of assault occasioning actual bodily harm after she delivered several blows to her female victim during the March 29 incident.
Documents tendered to the court revealed Bowe and her boyfriend, 34-year-old Forest Hill man Ben Jones, who was sentenced in July, had arranged to meet the victim and her friends at the supermarket so one of them could repay a debt to Jones.
When they arrived about 11:05am, the two offenders chased them out of the store before Bowe pushed her victim into a flowerbed and began attacking her.
“While she was on the ground, the accused grabbed her hair and started punching her in the face, her nose, her right and left cheek bones, her chin, and her mouth with a right closed fist in quick succession,” the documents read.
“[The victim] sustained a two-centimetre laceration to the bridge of her nose, swelling to her cheeks, and a small one-centimetre laceration inside her bottom lip.”
The two offenders then fled the scene, but Jones phoned the victims shortly after while they were outside the police station and, on speaker phone, said “I’m going to put a bullet in your head, you dog”.
Bowe was later arrested, charged, and granted bail, but found herself back in custody over the weekend after she failed to comply with her daily reporting conditions.
Appearing in Wagga Local Court via video-link from a cell on Monday, Bowe was sentenced to a seven-month intensive correction order by magistrate Alexander Mijovich.
“You didn’t have any criminal history until only some four or five years ago, that started with some drug possession, and it seems to have gone from there,” Mr Mijovich said.
“At some stage, you need to understand that, if you continue in this fashion, the court’s not going to have any option but to send you to jail.”
Mr Mijovich warned Bowe she needed to address her underlying drug issues if she wanted to stay out of custody.
“These are your first matters of violence, but if you keep heading down this path, you’re not going to get the same break,” he said.
“This is your chance to address your issues, if you’re fair dinkum – if you’re not, then we’ll be seeing you again.”
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