Hit-run accused bailed

A WOMAN accused of running down a pedestrian with a car in Brisbane has been granted bail by a Toowoomba magistrate.

Mother-of-three Lisa Jane Webber, 35, was arrested in Toowoomba on Sunday night after police claim she had earlier driven her car onto a Little Stanley St footpath in South Brisbane and struck a man who sustained ankle and shoulder injuries.

Webber has not been required to enter pleas to four counts of acts intended to cause grievous bodily harm relating to four people on the footpath at the time.

Her solicitor Shane MacDonald told the court his client instructed she had been at the Plough Inn on Southbank prior to the alleged incident and had been involved in an altercation in the bar.

His client instructed she recalled being knocked to the floor and kicked in the head and chest by a man, he said.

Whether the kick to the head had led to the later incident would need to be investigated, Mr MacDonald said in his bail application.

Webber had no previous criminal or traffic history and this incident would appear very much out of character, he submitted.

His client had recently separated from her husband and, though they were still living under the same roof, it was his client who normally had the care of the couple’s three children.

Objecting to bail, police prosecutor Christie Mahoney said the charges were very serious and claimed Webber while in the watch house had texted her ex-husband trying to create an alibi for herself.

Acting Magistrate Roger Stark granted Webber bail with conditions including she attend the Toowoomba Mental Health Unit for a health assessment, that she reside at the family’s Coomera address and report to police each Tuesday.

Mr Stark adjourned the case to the Brisbane Magistrates Court for committal mention on February 12 next year.