Dusty-Lee Grace Grant: Warwick mum’s frenzied street brawl with ex’s new partner

A mum-of-four has faced court after taking on both the other woman and her mother in a violent fistfight outside a busy shopping centre.

A Warwick mother who punched her ex’s new partner in the head during a violent brawl on a busy street has claimed the fistfight was driven by months of pent-up conflict.

Dusty-Lee Grant and her husband were outside Rose City Shoppingworld on Grafton Street at about 2.30pm on July 26 when they first ran across the other woman and her mother.

Warwick Magistrates Court heard the victim’s mother shouted something to Grant across the street, which provoked the 30-year-old enough that she launched herself at the other woman.

Dusty-Lee Grace Grant, 30, pleaded guilty to common assault. Picture: social media

Police prosecutor Ken Wiggan said Grant punched the victim in the head several times before the mother pulled her off and turned on her instead.

Sergeant Wiggan said the pair continued to fight until Grant’s husband and bystanders intervened, with all involved escaping the brawl uninjured.

“She claimed the victim often yelled abuse at her and her husband around town, and she was sick of it,” he said.

It wasn’t Grant’s first time before the courts for assault, with the mother-of-four’s criminal history also including drug offending.

Defence lawyer Phillip Crook contended the brawl was the explosion of months of conflict, which were first sparked when the father of one of Grant’s children called her from jail to inquire after his child.

Dusty-Lee Grace Grant, 30, pleaded guilty in Warwick Magistrates Court to one count of common assault over a public brawl with her ex-partner's new girlfriend outside Rose City Shoppingworld. Picture: social media

Mr Crook said the contact upset the man’s new partner, who started sending Grant texts saying she was “going to smash her” and yelling abuse at her around town.

“She’s not pleased with herself, and has now blocked the victim. She has also completed drug and alcohol counselling, and is now clean,” he said.

Mr Crook said the mother was refocused on the wellbeing of her children, aged between 12 and six months.

Acting magistrate Rob Turra slammed the mother-of-four for fistfighting in broad daylight, especially in such a busy public area.

“It’s just appalling behaviour, there’s no excuse. I accept there was some provocation, but it’s certainly not a defence,” Mr Turra said.

Grant pleaded guilty to one count of common assault.

She was fined $1000.

Originally published as Dusty-Lee Grace Grant: Warwick mum’s frenzied street brawl with ex’s new partner