Drunk woman breaches DV order at Maryborough home after mum’s death

Drunk and grieving, a woman turned up at a home she was banned from visiting, demanding to be let in. Things only got worse from there.

The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded guilty to contravening a domestic violence order when she faced Maryborough Magistrates Court this week.

A drunk woman whose mother had died turned up at a house she was legally forbidden from visiting, demanding to be let inside and was later found by police lying under a blanket on the patio.

The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded guilty in Maryborough Magistrates Court to contravening a domestic violence order.

Police prosecutor Sergeant Balam Selvadurai said about 5.15am on June 15, the victim returned home and found the woman at the door.

The woman started yelling at the man about taking his medication, the court heard.

Sgt Selvadurai said the man believed she was intoxicated and had mistaken him for her son.

He did not engage with her and entered the Maryborough home, locking the door behind him.

The woman repeatedly yelled “let me f**king in”, and the victim heard “banging and crashing around outside”, Sgt Selvadurai said.

Police turned up at the home and found the woman had not been given permission to be at the address.

The officers went to the rear patio of the home and found the woman lying under a blanket.

Sgt Selvadurai said the woman told the officers she knew she shouldn’t be at the address, but her mother had passed away and she had nowhere else to go.

The woman was then arrested.

Sgt Selvadurai said there were mitigating factors, including the woman’s issues with alcohol and the death of her mother, which had caused her to slip in terms of her sobriety.

Defence lawyer Morgan Harris said it has been a traumatic time for the woman, and she was heavily intoxicated.

“Her mother had passed away in front of this defendant, she witnessed the whole thing,” he said.

The woman had spent 41 days in presentence custody.

On that day the woman had consumed three bottles of alcohol as well as her anxiety medication, Mr Harris said.

She had attended the home having nowhere else to go.

Magistrate John Milburn said while intoxicated the woman had once again, and shortly after she had been sentenced for several matters, attended the home in breach of the order.

He acknowledged she had suffered trauma as a result of the death of her mother.

The woman was given a sentence of four months in prison with immediate release on parole.

In addition, a suspended sentence the woman had previously received was activated.

A conviction was recorded.