Warwick mum breached court ordered bond after being let out of watch house

Placed on an $800 good behaviour bond by the court on Saturday, she breached it within an hour and now has to forfeit the $800.

A YOUNG mother of two lasted less than an hour on an $800 six-month good behaviour bond imposed by the court before breaching it and having to forfeit the $800.

The 23-year-old woman, who cannot be named due to legal reasons, was subject to a domestic violence order that prohibited her from going to or remaining at her parents’ Warwick home, Toowoomba Magistrates Court heard on Monday. She had been taken into custody after breaching the order by committing offences and appeared in court Saturday morning when the $800 good behaviour bond was imposed.

However, after being released from the Warwick watch house Saturday morning, she had contacted her mother to stay she was going to her mother’s home to collect some personal items.

Told by her mother she couldn’t do that, her mother placed her belongings in the front yard and the 23-year-old turned up but an argument ensued while she was going through her things and police were called to arrest her again.

She appeared in the Toowoomba court via video link from Warwick watch house to plead guilty to breaching the bond and to breaching her domestic violence order as well as to damaging a laptop and three car windows at her parents’ home last Friday and to being found with four drug pipes when arrested on Saturday.

Duty solicitor Brad Skuse, of Skuse Graham Lawyers, told the court the 23-year-old had upon her release from the watch house on Saturday gone to the front counter of Warwick Police Station to ask if an officer could accompany her to her parents’ home to pick up her things as was permitted by the order.

However, the police declined because they were not named on the order, Mr Skuse said.

It was then that she chose to go to the home and an argument ensued over property, he said.

The mother of two acknowledged she had a problem with drugs and had been diagnosed with drug induced psychosis, Mr Skuse said.

Magistrate Graham Lee noted the woman had only one entry on her criminal history and ordered the convictions not be recorded. Mr Lee placed her on a 12-month probation order to include random drug testing and ordered she forfeit the $800 recognisance from the good behaviour bond.

Originally published as Warwick mum breached court ordered bond after being let out of watch house