Angela Weedon: Kirrawee woman on COVID-19 racist abuse charge
The Sydney woman charged with a string of attacks on total strangers and two bizarre, racist coronavirus tirades referred to media as “scumbags” as she faced local court.
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A Sydney woman charged with four separate attacks on total strangers within a matter of days, including two bizarre racist tirades about coronavirus, has appeared in court.
Angela Weedon, 38, was charged four times in 18 days after police say she racially abused a Telstra retail worker and an elderly woman on a train, then allegedly intimidated two strangers in the street and kicked another who refused to give her a cigarette.
She had intended to seek a bail variation before Magistrate Les Mabbutt at Sutherland Local Court on Tuesday before she ultimately withdrew her application.
Weedon smiled for the camera when she left court before referring to the St George Shire Standard’s photographer as a “scumbag”.
The Kirrawee woman is on bail conditions akin to house arrest after she was taken into custody twice following her most recent alleged offences.
Weedon first came to police attention on April 11 when social media vision depicted a woman unleashing a racist tirade against Asian Australian employees at Telstra in Miranda Fair.
She was charged with two counts of offensive behaviour and two counts of stalking and intimidation over the alleged abuse, as well as a subsequent incident involving an elderly Chinese woman on a Sydney train.
Vision obtained exclusively by the St George Shire Standard at the time depicted a woman appearing to scream “you are not welcome here illegal, you and your biocontamination” and “can you even speak English, illegal?” as she pursues the woman.
Weedon then spent two days behind bars over the Easter weekend after she allegedly abused a woman and a man around 10am on April 12 in Kirrawee.
She was charged with two counts of stalking and intimidation and two counts of resisting police and refused bail by a registrar at Central Local Court on Easter Monday before Magistrate Clare Farnan granted her bail on Tuesday.
Just two weeks later Weedon was in police custody again for allegedly kicking a man and screaming abuse at him in Kirrawee when he refused to give her a cigarette on Monday.
Weedon was charged with common assault, offensive behaviour in a public place and intimidation over the fourth incident but was granted bail once again by Magistrate Clare Farnan at Central Local Court.
She returns to Sutherland Local Court on June 25.