Natalie Kaglatzis Belrose Hotel: Woman six times limit when she crashed her car at pub sentenced
A northern beaches woman who crashed her car in the Belrose Hotel carpark when she was six times over the limit is sentenced in Manly Local Court.
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A woman who was six times over the limit when she smashed her car trying to get out of a locked northern beaches pub car park will now have to spend six months locked inside her own house.
Natalie Jane Kaglatzis, 48, of Frenchs Forest, was sentenced to home detention after her boozy bender at the Belrose Hotel ended just after midnight on July 7.
She pleaded guilty to high-range drink driving and has been in custody since her arrest.
Kaglatzis, who was previously described in Manly Local Court as a “good person” with a chronic alcohol problem, appeared in court today via video screen.
She had been at her local pub for drinks after attending her grandmother’s funeral before, just after midnight she jumped into her Mazda 3 sedan and reversed it 20 metres before crashing hard, backwards, into the car park’s boundary fence. The rear of the car was substantially damaged.
The hotel’s manager was able to stop her driving any further before police were called.
When officers arrived Kaglatzis said repeatedly to them: “Do you want to play?”
At Frenchs Forest police station she blew 0.306 and was remanded in custody.
Her Legal Aid solicitor, Fiona Hadlington, told the court last month that Kaglatzis had a longstanding problem with alcohol that was exacerbated by the breakdown of a relationship in 2019.
Kaglatzis told the court she had been in alcohol rehabilitation but had lapsed “when my nan died”.
Police prosector Adrian Walsh had urged the court to sentence her to full-time jail because she deliberately drove to the hotel to drink and then drive her car home.
Sgt Walsh said if she was not jailed Kaglatzis could be out in the community “making poor and rash decisions” that could put people in danger.
At Kaglatzis’ last appearance Magistrate Michelle Goodwin said: “At that level, I was surprised you were conscious, let alone driving a car.”
Ms Goodwin handed her a 12-month Intensive Corrections Order. Six months of that order will be served in home detention.
She was also disqualified from driving for nine months.