Mercedes Mum Margarita Tomovska faces court over police order
The notorious ‘Mercedes Mum’ has landed back in court months after she was jailed for a shocking 232km/h police pursuit in her luxury vehicle on a Sydney highway. Here’s why she was back before the magistrate.
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The notorious Mercedes Mum jailed for a shocking 232km/h police pursuit in her luxury vehicle on a Sydney highway has landed back in court over a separate brush with the law.
Margarita Tomovska, 28, was due to face Sutherland Local Court via the audiovisual link from a women’s prison in Sydney’s west to fight an apprehended violence order imposed against her by police for her father Jordan Tomovski’s protection.
However, Mr Tomovski did not attend the hearing before Magistrate Jayeann Carney and the matter was adjourned to February 19 at the same court.
The father and daughter had attended court side-by-side last June to indicate they would seek a hearing date to contest the order.
Tomovska was not charged with any criminal offences in relation to the protective order imposed by police for Mr Tomovski, which the Alfords Point man had vigorously opposed.
Tomovska told Magistrate Les Mabbutt at the time her father had previously written to police to that effect.
The Caringbah woman is serving a minimum four-month prison sentence for the now-infamous police pursuit in December 2018 where she tore away from officers at 232km/h in her Mercedes AMG on the Princes Highway near Helensburgh.
A three-year-old girl was found screaming and hysterical inside the car when Tomovska finally slowed down and pulled over, along with a male acquaintance.
Tomovska had argued she was under duress from the male when she made the fateful choice to speed away from police but Wollongong Local Court Magistrate Sharron McGowan found her guilty, stating there was “no alternative to full time custody” for the shocking crime.
Tomovska was originally sentenced to a minimum nine months behind bars but successfully appealed the sentence’s severity at Wollongong Local District Court to serve just four months without parole.
