Trekisha Myshayla Maybanks pleads guilty to assault

An Ipswich woman punched a Somerset landowner in her sixties in the jaw when she was challenged over her unleashed dog, a court has heard.

Tempers flared when a teel walking her dog at a popular riverside spot crossed paths with a local landowner, leading to a savage, unprovoked assault on the older woman, a court has heard.

Trekisha Myshayla Maybanks, 20, from Redbank Plains, pleaded guilty in Ipswich Magistrates Court this week to assault causing bodily harm at Fernvale, in the Somerset region, on Saturday, November 28 last year.

The violent incident occurred at a popular creek on private property where members of the public are allowed to swim.

Maybanks, her sister and a friend had been walking with the dog at the creek, when Jellybean the dog began barking at the 61-year-old complainant, who was out checking livestock near Banks Creek Rd.

This led to an exchange of words, with Maybanks asking the victim if she knew who really owned the land historically.

Redbank Plains woman Trekisha Maybanks, 20, got into a dispute over a barking dog. Picture: Ross Irby

The victim began filming the confrontation with her phone and Maybanks yelled “keep walking c***” and to “stop recording”, the court heard.

She then yelled at her “we f***ing dance today on our land” and to “f*** off”, screaming in her face, leading the victim to raise her arm defensively.

Maybanks then shoved the victim three times and used her fist to strike the woman to the jaw.

The court hear this caused pain, bruising and swelling.

“What do you expect dog?” Maybanks was said to have told the victim after striking her.

Prosecutor Luke Smoothy told the court Maybanks was aged 19 at the time of the offence and had no criminal history.

Mr Smoothy said the woman in her victim impact statement clearly suffered an emotional impact from the violent confrontation.

He said the anger and aggression shown by Maybanks had been completely unnecessary.

“It was gratuitous violence to a person who was on their own property,” Mr Smoothy said.

Defence lawyer Matthew Fairclough said told the court Maybanks “wasn’t looking for trouble”.

“No one else was involved. It was not a pack attack or anything like that,” he said.

Mr Fairclough said she had not been in trouble before and was a young person actively involved in her indigenous community, a talented artist and doing a radio traineeship.

He sought that no conviction be recorded.

Magistrate Jacqueline Payne ordered Maybanks to complete a 12-month supervised probation order. No conviction was recorded.