Donna Sell jailed for discharging a firearm after wild northern suburbs brawl

A mum-of-two has learnt her fate for firing a gun after a violent brawl between feuding groups to avenge her partner.

A mother-of-two will be locked up for years after she fired a gun following a violent brawl to “send a message” and avenge her partner.

Donna Maree Sell, 38, was jailed for more than six years in the District Court after she took the law into her own hands to diffuse a feud.

During sentencing, the court heard a violent brawl kicked off between two groups at an Elizabeth Vale house on January 21, 2022.

Sell’s partner at the time, Andrew Goulding, entered the property yelling “come on, you fat f***,” before using a baseball bat to smash windows of a car in the driveway.

Another man then smashed the car windscreen with a paver, while Sell and two other people also walked onto the property.

Andrew Goulding and Donna Sell. Picture: Facebook

Three people then exited the house, holding a hammer and metal pole.

Goulding was struck with a pole in the brawl, which broke his arm and he was taken to hospital.

Police allege some of the group reattended the Elizabeth Vale house shortly after they left.

Sell can then be seen on CCTV holding a shotgun which she fired into the garage door.

A daylight shootout between speeding cars on heavily populated Main North Rd followed – which Sell wasn’t charged with.

Sell pleaded guilty to aggravated affray, discharging a firearm intending to damage property and possessing a prescribed firearm, namely a loaded sawn off shotgun.

Goulding, of Smithfield, pleaded guilty to property damage and affray and was handed a suspended sentence.

The court heard Goulding was stabbed in the chest multiple times during a home invasion in 2021 and was pronounced clinically dead at one point.

Chris Pouras, for Sell, previously told the court Sell believed the same person who was responsible for the home invasion then allegedly ran Goulding off the road on the day of the offending.

Mr Pouras said Sell and Goulding – who are no longer together – then rounded up a crew to retaliate, with Sell firing the gun at the garage to “send a message”.

Andrew Goulding dodged immediate jail for the northern suburbs brawl. Photo: Facebook

The court heard Sell was a heavy user of methamphetamine at the time and in a highly emotional state.

Mr Pouras told the court Sell was kidnapped and held captive for eight days in 2013 over a drug her former partner owned.

Her partner, who was in custody, organised outlaw motorcycle gang members to attend where Sell was being held captive to “shoot the house up” so she could be released.

“What Ms Sell took from this incident is that the discharge of a firearm can sometimes have the desired effect of sending a strong message,” Mr Pouras said.

Judge Nick Alexandrides said Sell risked the safety of innocent members of the public.

“You were in possession of the loaded firearm, a sawn-off shotgun, in public, in a residential area with the intention of introducing it to an already very violent and volatile situation,” he said.

Taking into account Sell was already serving for possessing a firearm, she was sentenced to six years and five months jail, with a non-parole period of three months and three months.