Macca’s counter-jumper Nooria Halake strikes again, allegedly ‘donkey kicking’ a police officer

A woman who assaulted Maccas workers has appeared in court after she “donkey kicked” a police officer during an arrest.

A fast-food counter jumper “donkey kicked” a police officer while being arrested for a separate matter, a court has heard.

Nooria Halake appeared in the Port Adelaide Magistrates Court on Monday, by video link, where she was sentenced for assaulting a police officer.

Magistrate Jayanthi Pandya said Halake was “heavily intoxicated” on July 21 when she “chose to donkey kick the police officer twice to his knee” during her arrest.

“Police are in a vulnerable position,” she said.

“I imagine that police officer didn’t just feel pain but felt ongoing vulnerability and emotional pain as a result of your behaviour.”

Halake was sentenced earlier this month after pleading guilty to a spree of offences at fast food restaurants spanning a period of 18 months.

The court found Halake assaulted a staff member on December 27, 2022, at the McDonald’s in Salisbury after she was asked to leave for consuming alcohol in the restaurant.

Nooria Halake has appeared in court less than a month after she was sentenced for a spate of offences at fast food restaurants. Picture: NewsWire / David Mariuz

Video footage, posted to social media, shows Halake going behind a McDonald’s counter two days later on December 29 on Hindley St and throwing food and verbally abusing staff.

On July 3 Halake was sentenced to a total of three months and 25 days in prison, which she began on March 17 this year.

The remaining nine days were suspended on a good behaviour bond of 12 months under the supervision of community corrections.

Halake jumped over the counter at McDonald’s in Hindley street in December last year. Picture: File.

Magistrate Pandya said it was “particularly disappointing” that Halake breached her good behaviour bond on July 21 this year fewer than three weeks after it was imposed by a court.

Defence counsel said Halake was distressed on the day of the offending as she claims to have been sexually assaulted earlier that day.

The court also heard that Halake has since found stable accommodation with her sister despite previously experiencing issues of homelessness.

Magistrate Pandya sentenced Halake to six months of suspended imprisonment with a good behaviour bond of 18 months, with supervision.