Annemarie Swan pleads guilty to trespass after shortcut to avoid swooping magpies

A mum of seven, found on a stranger’s property in the Wide Bay, claims she was trying to dodge swooping magpies.

A mum of seven with no criminal history, who claimed she took a shortcut through a stranger’s property to avoid swooping magpies, has ended up in court on a trespassing charge.

Annemarie Swan, 33, pleaded guilty to the charge when she faced Maryborough Magistrates Court.

The court heard on August 26 Swan jumped into a yard of a home at Boonooroo and told the owners she was being swooped by magpies and needed to cut through.

But a third party told those at the property there were “no magpies swooping”.

The court heard the charge was at the “lowest end” of criminality.

The court heard Swan had recently been in a car crash and had head wounds, which was why she had been worried about the swooping magpies.

She was not currently working, but was caring for her children and had no prior criminal history.

Swan had approached the property owners to apologise, but had been followed in a car after the incident, at which time the police were called, the court heard.

Swan accepted she should not have been one the property.

She was convicted and not further punished.

The conviction was not recorded.