A Tolland woman will serve a jail sentence in the community after assaulting a teenager who was just picking up a sibling from work.
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Vicki-Lee Weldon, 38, was already on bail after being charged in May with damaging property, assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest.
But then on August 11, when an 18-year-old man pulled up on Baylis Street to pick up his brother from work Weldon jumped in the passenger seat and asked to see his sunglasses.
When he refused, she grabbed them and tried to leave. When the teenager reached for his sunnies, she punched him in the face.
When Weldon got out of the car, she dropped the glasses in the gutter and walked away, so the victim got out to pick them up when she ran towards them and pushed him against the car.
He told her to go away, but she punched him again, however he managed to get in the car and lock it. Police later arrested Weldon.
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When they were searching her, she told one of the officers, "you hurt my wrist," before swearing and threatening to kick them in the head.
Weldon was charged with common assault, destroy or damage property, resisting an officer in the execution of duty and enter a vehicle without the consent of its occupier.
Her solicitor Louise Dart submitted to the court that the offences sat around the mid-range of objective seriousness and the threshold for imprisonment had not been crossed.
She said Weldon recognised the cause of her offending as her alcohol consumption and expressed remorse, and pleaded guilty at the first available opportunity.
Ms Dart also noted that she has abstained from alcohol since the second group of offences.
The magistrate said he disagreed with her submission, adding the only appropriate penalty was one of full-time imprisonment. Ms Dart asked him to consider an intensive correction order.
Magistrate Christopher Halburd said police have a difficult job without people deciding to "take it upon themselves to assault them".
He said the second set of matters are "far more serious" as the gentleman was just "going about his business" when he was targeted.
"She has a limited criminal history ... but the appropriate penalty is one of imprisonment," Magistrate Halburd said.
Magistrate Halburd sentenced Weldon to a seven-month intensive correction order, with the mandate to abstain from drinking, and complete 60 hours of community service.
For the initial three offences, she was fined $1400 and sentenced to a 12-month community corrections order.
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