Millie Fuller: ‘Love Island Australia’ star convicted of biting pub security guard
A former popular reality TV star bit and hit a security guard after she was asked to leave a popular Sydney pub for being intoxicated.
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A former Australian reality TV star has been convicted of biting, slapping and kicking a security guard during a late night “alcohol fuelled” incident at a popular Sydney pub.
Millie Fuller, 29, who made it to the final on the first series of Love Island Australia, latched onto the guard’s shoulder while he tried to remove her from the Hotel Steyne at Manly.
Manly Local Court was told on Thursday that Fuller, who is now described as a social media influencer — she has 265,000 followers on Instagram and 29,000 on Tik Tok — was being ejected from the pub after staff deemed she’d had too much to drink.
Fuller, from Allambie Heights applied to the court to have one count of common assault and one count of excluded person fail to leave premises when required, dropped on mental health grounds.
The court was told that she was being treated for several conditions including hyperactivity disorder and a stress disorder. The court heard that on the night she assaulted the guard, she had downed six alcoholic drinks, but was also on prescription medication.
Magistrate Robert Williams dismissed Fuller’s application before convicting her.
Mr Williams said while he noted that it was clear Fuller’s behaviour was affected by her health issues, it was also clear it was affected by alcohol.
He said alcohol appeared to be an “influencing factor” and noted that assaults on hospitality staff were a “prevalent offence in the community”.
“The court needs to denounce your conduct,” Mr Williams told Fuller.
The magistrate said security personnel at the hotel were “basically just doing their jobs … asking you to leave.”
In an agreed set of facts tendered to court, police stated that Fuller was dancing with a friend in a common walkway before she was asked to move onto the dance floor.
Later she was approached by security guards who told her she needed to leave the hotel because she had been refused service and was showing signs of intoxication.
After she refused to leave, the security guard who was he victim of the assault, was called to help usher her from the premises.
That guard grabbed her arm and began to push her toward an exit. Police stated that Fuller fell to the floor and guards picked her up before resisted by “flailing both of her arms around”.
As she was pushed towards the exit, she slapped the guards’ face.
The guard, with the help of two others, continued pushing her towards the exit “when she bit him on his left shoulder”, the facts sheet stated. He suffered a small cut.
After she was carried outside onto the Corso, she kicked the guard in the leg and pushed his face before she was restrained in a headlock by a female guard.
Her lawyer told the magistrate that Fuller was being treated for mental health issues prior to the offending and that she was now on a treatment plan that would keep her on the “straight and narrow”.
He also said Fuller was a person of good character who was unlikely to ever reoffend.
Magistrate put her on a 12-month Community Correction Order to be of good behaviour and fined her $150.
Fuller has applied to appeal the conviction and the sentence.
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