Monica Goch abandons appeal attempt after bashing police officer
A woman who tried to intimidate police before she turned violent after downing 20 shots at a Glen Iris has given up trying to overturn her sentence.
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A Melbourne woman who assaulted a police officer with a group of friends in Glen Iris has abandoned an appeal of her jail sentence.
Monica Goch, was sentenced to six months’ jail after she drank 20 shots of alcohol then assaulted a police officer on her birthday in 2021.
On Thursday she reappeared in the County Court where she was expected to appeal her sentence however, the hearing was over in just a few minutes as it was revealed Goch was abandoning her appeal.
On January 10, 2021, Sergeant Victoria Fields and Constable Ryan Williams responded to multiple noise complaints at an Airbnb on Malvern Rd.
They spoke to Goch and a co-accused, who were “both argumentative and appeared to be alcohol-affected”.
Soon after they saw a car leave the complex carrying Goch and two others, pulling over the vehicle on Osborne St.
While the officers were trying to breath test of one member of the group, Goch turned on her mobile phone’s torch and shone it in the officers’ faces.
She and a co-accused tried to intimidate Sgt Fields by standing within arm’s reach and being verbally aggressive.
Another co-accused, Anna Bako, arrived and the group of four became aggressive towards both officers, assaulting them.
Sgt Fields was struck to the head and face and was thrown to the ground and hit in the head and shoulders, with one person kicking her head twice.
She received a concussion, an injured shoulder, and bruising in the assault.
Constable Williams was also assaulted and managed to arrest some members of the group during the ordeal.
Goch pleaded guilty to assault in company and recklessly causing injury to an emergency worker in August this year and was sentenced to six months’ jail
On Thursday she was taken from the courtroom back to the cells to continue her sentence.
