Sarah Reeves pleads guilty to assaults at Kings Beach, Dicky Beach

Mobile phone video and CCTV has caught two “vicious” assaults at the hands of a Noosa woman who attacked her 76-year-old neighbour and her former friend outside a licenced premises.

Sarah Jane Reeves leaving Maroochydore Magistrates Court on Tuesday after being granted immediate parole for two assaults. Picture: Sam Turner

A Noosa mother has wept at the bar table after narrowly avoiding jail for two feral assaults, one of whom was her 76-year-old neighbour.

Footage shown to Maroochydore Magistrates Court on Tuesday detailed the two violent attacks by Sarah Jane Reeves, 39, who pleaded guilty to several offences of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and common assault.

Court documents state the two attacks took place in June and October, 2023 at Kings Beach and Dicky Beach.

Police prosecutor Brendan Newman played one mobile video of Reeves’ expletive ridden confrontation with her 72-year-old neighbour.

The court saw the pair trade insults at each other during the wild confrontation.

“She’s an old lady let her go,” a bystander can be heard telling Reeves in the recording.

“You don’t understand what she’s done,” Reeves said.

The court heard Reeves followed the elderly victim and tried to stop witnesses assisting her after the initial violent assault. The police prosecutor said Reeves continued to assault the 76-year-old even when passersby tried to stop what was happening.

Reeves assaulted an elderly woman and a separate 56-year-old woman at Dicky Beach and Kings Beach.

Senior Sergeant Newman played another assault captured on CCTV at Kings Beach where the 39-year-old was seen throwing a 56-year-old woman, who was a former friend, to the ground before she rained down punches and kicks on her.

The police prosecutor said Reeves spent 66 days in custody before she was granted bail.

In her victim impact statement, Senior Sergeant Newman said the 76-year-old woman felt pain to numerous parts of her body, suffered a sinus fracture and became hypervigilant around her house.

She cried in court after she was told she would not have to serve actual jail time.

Reeves’ other assault victim said in her impact statement she woke up at Sunshine Coast University Hospital after the assault where she couldn’t move her neck and found it difficult to walk or talk.

She talked about being scared and frightened in the months since being attacked, how she experienced nightmares and changed her lifestyle due to fear of leaving her unit.

“Both these victims have suffered considerably, both physically and psychologically, as a result from these vicious attacks,” Senior Sergeant Newman said as he pushed for the 39-year-old to serve actual jail.

Defence barrister Lachlan Ygoa-McKeown tendered apology letters written by Reeves to the court along with documents detailing the 39-year-old’s extensive rehabilitation.

Mr Ygoa-McKeown said his client showed genuine remorse while detailing her dysfunctional upbringing and early life which was marred by drug and alcohol issues.

The barrister said she was now being treated by a psychiatrist for her mental health issues so she doesn’t return to the “destructive behaviour”.

Magistrate Haydn Stjernqvist jailed Reeves for two years, but granted her immediate parole on Tuesday.

The sentence prompted Reeves to burst into tears at the bar table next to her defence team.

“I’m so sorry your honour ... I’m so sorry,” she said.

Mr Stjernqvist also ordered her to pay $1000 each to both victims.