Ronan Keevers and Kathleen Keevers in court for obstructing police
A mother and son have faced court after the wild events of a New Year’s Eve beach party at Agnes Water.
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A mother and her 18-year-old son found themselves in court after a pumping New Year’s celebration got out of hand and police crashed the party.
Kathleen Therese Keevers and her son Ronan Scott Keevers appeared in the Bundaberg Magistrates Court on Monday, January 29.
Ronan Keevers first appeared and pleaded guilty to one count of assaulting a police officer and one count of obstructing a police officer, representing himself in the courtroom.
The court heard the 18-year-old concreter were at a New Year’s party at an Agnes Waters beach when police arrived a little after midnight.
Prosecutor Leon Casey told the court the police came upon two young men fighting at the party, and quickly tried to separate them, only for one of the young men - Ronan Keevers - to resist and fight back.
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Young Keevers told the court he was remorseful for getting into the fight, but hadn’t realised at the time it was a police officer who was trying to break it up.
“When the copper came and tackled me I thought it was [his] mate, he grabbed me from behind at first, he was on top of me,” he said.
“I blacked out and got on top of him and it was for a split second … that’s when I looked up and saw that they were coppers and surrendered.”
Ronan Keevers was placed on a six month good behaviour bond of $800 and no convictions were recorded.
Within a few moments, his mother Kathleen Keevers appeared in the courtroom, and pleaded guilty to one count of obstructing a police officer, also representing herself.
The court heard Kathleen Keevers had attended the Agnes Waters Police Station around 1am after her son was taken into custody, where she placed her body in the doorway of the station and refused to get out of the way.
Mr Casey told the court the 48-year-old ignored multiple warnings from police before the situation escalated and she “struggled for a significant period of time,” refusing to allow police to place her in restraints.
Kathleen Keevers was apologetic to the court, but said the struggle between police had left her winded and with bruises.
“The events that happened after, as I was moving away from police, they were very – for want of a better word – forceful,” she said.
“The reason I struggled is there was three people sitting on top of me, I couldn’t breathe … I think I was unconscious because I stopped breathing.”
Magistrate Edwina Rowan said the situation was “somewhat unusual” and “out of character” noting neither mother or son had a criminal history.
Kathleen Keevers was placed on a three month good behaviour bond of $400 and no convictions were recorded.
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