Gosford: Ex-girlfriend pleads guilty to assaulting, intimidating and harassing ex-boyfriend
A woman could be in the running in the race to be crowned 2023’s worst girlfriend after pleading guilty to several offences, including tormenting her ex-boyfriend, a court has heard.
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A woman who punched, kicked and headbutted a glass door until it smashed trying to reach her ex-boyfriend before cutting him with a broken ceramic bowl and bombarding him with texts while on the run from the cops, has pleaded guilty.
Katrina Charge, 28, faced Gosford Local Court on Wednesday where she pleaded guilty to a dozen offences of using a carriage service to harass her ex-boyfriend, assaulting him, contravening apprehended violence orders, damaging property and stalking or intimidating him.
An agreed set of facts states Charge had an “extensive criminal history” and her offending “appears to be escalating in terms of violence and nature” despite knowing police were after her.
The facts state Charge had been working at a Gosford bottle shop where she became involved in a relationship with the owner’s son, who also worked there, for about seven months.
About 10.30pm on Sunday, November 20, they finished working at the shop and went to his unit around the corner.
The facts state Charge started drinking a bottle of wine and asked for money to go out but he declined even though he “often supplements her funds”.
A short time later he caught her going through a bag of his and he wrestled it from her and she left.
She later returned to the unit block at 12.53am, which was also owned by his father, and started kicking the front glass door until it shattered and then kept kicking it until she had made a hole.
“To escape and seek refuge, [the victim] left the unit building and went into his father’s bottle shop just around the corner,” the facts state.
“[He] believed the accused would not bother him there as he did not believe she had a key.”
The man started watching Netflix on a computer in the office until he saw her drive into the drive through bay shortly before 4am.
“The accused then approached the front of the store and began bashing on the roller doors which were pulled down over the front of the store,” the facts state.
“[The victim] began yelling out at the accused to go away or he would call the police.”
To his surprise she came back with a key and opened the rollers and tried to open the door but the victim was pushing against it to keep it shut.
“The accused continued to punch, kick and headbutt the glass of the door until it smashed,” the facts state.
Some time later police arrived and found her walking along the road nearby with a 1cm cut above her eye.
She said her boyfriend had caused it but “could not provide a straight story about how she sustained the cut” and police found she was heavily intoxicated.
Charge was taken to hospital and police returned to the bottle shop where they reviewed CCTV of the incident but when they returned to the hospital, officers discovered she had stepped outside for a cigarette but had not returned.
The victim told police he would not provide a statement but he wanted to end the relationship.
Less than two weeks later on December 2 the pair were back at his unit where they became involved in a verbal argument, which continued when they got into the lift.
“When in the lift the accused began to punch the victim around the head,” the facts state.
“A ceramic bowl that the accused was holding fell and shattered. The victim fell over and badly sliced his left calf causing a significant wound.”
Neighbours called police and Charge again took off.
Three days later when the victim went to Gosford Hospital to have his calf looked at Charge started calling and messaging him.
Police attended and answered one of her calls to him where she told officers to “f..k off”.
Another staff member informed police Charge had threatened to “slash the throat” of a female officer and “stab and shoot” another hospital worker.
Police obtained a warrant for her arrest.
The facts state less than a week later Charge sent her ex-boyfriend 68 text messages and 17 calls in 19 hours before he reported it to police.
While he was reporting the harassment, she called him again from a private number and police spoke to her, informing Charge there was a warrant out for her arrest and warned her not to contact him again but she told them to “f..k off” and hung up.
A little over a week later at 7.10am on December 14 police were patrolling Strickland Forest Rd, at Somersby, when they saw Charge sitting in a white Mercedes parked at the Banksia Lookout.
“Police observed the accused in the front passenger seat point towards police and appear to attempt to conceal her identity by looking down,” the facts state.
Officers got out and tried to stop the car but the unknown female driver put it in reverse and pulled away.
Charge got out and stood in front of the police car urging them to “go on hit me” as she blocked officers from pursuing the Mercedes.
She was taken into custody and charged with multiple offences.
On Wednesday, Charge’s matter was adjourned to February 23 for sentence.
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