Kahle Watman: Heathcote Covid clinic vandal faces court

A magistrate offered up a stark lesson in vaccinations and death statistics to a woman who daubed the words ‘scam’ and ‘the only things mutating are lies’ on a Covid clinic.

A convicted high range drink driver who vandalised a southern Sydney Covid testing clinic at the height of Sydney’s devastating Covid outbreak has been reprimanded by a magistrate.

A member of the public saw Kahle Watman armed with a black spray paint can at the Heathcote Covid pop-up testing clinic in the Sutherland Shire on July 6.

“A witness saw the offender spray in black paint the word ‘scam’ on the western side and ‘the only things mutating are lies’ on the eastern side,” agreed police facts tendered to Sutherland Local Court state.

“The witness yelled ‘what the f*** are you doing, you idiot’ and the offender rode her bike away from the scene.”

Police obtained CCTV from the nearby Heathcote McDonald’s which revealed Watman was responsible for the vandalism.

Kahle Watman (left) with her solicitor at Sutherland Local Court.

At the time she was subject to a community corrections order requiring her to be of good behaviour after she was convicted of high range drink driving in December 2020.

“When she was arrested, the defendant said ‘I’m a free woman of flesh and blood and I do not recognise this police state, I do not recognise my government any more’,” police facts state.

Watman was charged and pleaded guilty to intentionally marking premises without consent and faced Magistrate Philip Stewart at Sutherland Local Court for sentence on November 11.

“This is an evident protest by her in circumstances where, whether she is anti-vax, I don’t know,” Mr Stewart said.

“But she takes issue with the signs being posted and appears not to believe in the testing clinics or, otherwise, the fact of people vaccinated in the community.”

Part of Watman’s vandalism at the Covid testing clinic. Picture: Dierdree Steinwall/supplied

Mr Stewart pointed out it was well documented most people who die from Covid are unvaccinated.

“The message that is abundantly clear from various publications from the press is that the great majority of people passing away from this insidious virus are, for whatever reason, unvaccinated,” Mr Stewart said.

“Notwithstanding that, the defendant may have beliefs which are born out of her decisions – there is no excuse for her to protest in that way by spraying the signs with black paint.”

Mr Stewart convicted Watman and fined her $500.

He took no further action on the breach of her pre-existing CCO for drink driving.

Kahle Watman (left).