Central Queensland woman throws coffee, pot plant in alleged cheating spat

In a last-ditch effort to rekindle a ‘toxic’ relationship riddled with meth use, a woman has lashed out in anger after seeing who she believed was her partner’s mistress.

​

A scorned lover has thrown coffee at a woman she believed her former partner cheated on her with.

Her then partner had taken out an order against her on February 11 last year but that did not stop her trying to rekindle their relationship.

Police prosecutor Sergeant Merrilyn Hoskins told Gladstone Magistrates Court that the woman, who cannot legally be named, approached her then partner who was sitting on a couch beside a “female friend”.

An argument broke out, the woman tossed the friend’s bags and grabbed her hair.

She also grabbed a pot plant and hurled it at her partner.

When the pot smashed on the ground, she picked up the broken pieces as well as a pair of shoes, and threw them at her partner who received cuts to his face.

Sergeant Hoskins recommended the woman undertake medical and psychological evaluation as part of her sentencing.

Rio Ramos, of Rio Ramos and Co, said his client and the man had been using methamphetamines together at the time they tried to rekindle their “toxic” relationship.

“Still to this day, that (allegation of cheating) brings about some emotional difficulties,” Mr Ramos said.

“She’s still finding out about, even to this day, about things he’d done in the past behind her back … she’s (now) conceded that the relationship is over.”

Mr Ramos said the woman has since had “nothing to do” with her ex with “cross orders in place between them”.

“She just wants to move on and leave that past behind her,” he said.

The woman, who is unemployed, dropped out of high school after falling pregnant with her son who is now aged nine.

Mr Ramos said she was looking for work and trying to get her driver’s and forklift licences.

He said she was also trying to get a prescription for medical marijuana so she could smoke legally.

The woman pleaded guilty on April 12 to contravening a domestic violence order (aggravated offence).

Acting Magistrate Mary Buchanan sentenced her to a 12 months’ probation order and recorded a conviction.