Justice Ivy Uppritchard: What triggered teen’s vicious Logan robbery

A Logan teenager who got addicted to meth at 14 put her victim in a chokehold and bit her during a vicious robbery in Kingston.

A Logan teenager who was addicted to meth by the age of 14 put her victim in a chokehold and bit her during a vicious robbery in Kingston.

Justice Ivy Uppritchard, 20, of Slacks Creek, pleaded guilty in Beeneligh District Court to robbery in company with personal violence, unlawful use of a motor vehicle and dangerous operation of a vehicle while adversely affected by an intoxicating substance.

Slacks Creek woman Justice Ivy Uppritchard. Picture: Facebook

The court heard Uppritchard, who was 19 at the time, arrived at a home in Kingston and got into an argument at about 9pm on April 25 last year.

She walked into a bedroom and grabbed a bottle of Xanax from a 43-year-old woman who had been sitting on a bed.

The court heard Uppritchard then grabbed the woman’s handbag and demanded she hand over her car keys before hitting her in the head.

The victim rolled onto her stomach to hide her keys but Uppritchard sat on her back and tried to take a phone and the keys.

She then put her arm around the victim’s neck until she felt like she was going to pass out, the court heard, bit her on the arm and hit her several times.

Uppritchard then fled in the woman’s car with the phone and another person’s phone

She was spotted two hours later at the MacDonald’s in Logan Central by police who deployed tyre deflation devices, but drove off at high speed.

The court heard her car veered on the wrong side of Wembley Rd and Uppritchard also ran a red light before crashing into a fence.

Tests revealed she had amphetamines in her system.

Uppritchard’s lawyer told the court her client became addicted to meth at 14.

She said Uppritchard had been “triggered” and became angry upon seeing a girl at the house who appeared to have passed out from a drug overdose.

Uppritchard, who was on probation at the time of the offending, had since been diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

Judge Craig Chowdhury described the “vicious” attack as “serious, gratuitous violence”.

He sentenced Uppritchard to two-and-a-half years’ jail with an immediate parole release date.

The 341 days she spent in pre-sentence custody were declared time served under the sentence.

She was also disqualified from driving for six months.