A 23-YEAR-OLD woman was lucky she wasn’t taken into custody like her brother after she assaulted police who tried to arrest her brother for an alleged stabbing in Amaroo Crescent.
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Police arrived in Amaroo Crescent on Saturday May 10 at around 11.25pm to find a man with several “serious stab wounds” bleeding heavily before he collapsed on the ground in front of them.
Officers feared the perpetrator was still armed and at the scene where there were around 20 drunk people milling around so they began calling for people to name a suspect.
At that point Jimila Ettie Wallace’s brother Christopher Wallace, ran into the house and police followed, but so did she.
Wallace was handcuffed on the kitchen floor, he was surrounded by knives and Jimila Wallace, who was extremely drunk tried to go to him by pushing officers out of the road, police facts said.
She pushed an officer in the chest and ran at them four times before she was capsicum sprayed.
Her solicitor Jack Hibbard argued she had time to think about what she had done and if she had her time over she would have done things differently.
“She was obviously in a hysterical state at the time,” he said.
Magistrate, Terry Lucas, fined the Hill Street, Bathurst, resident, $400 in Orange Local Court on Thursday,
“The police have enough to deal with without booze making it harder for them,” he said.