MUM IN JAIL FOR ATTACK

A WOMAN who attacked her daughter with a machete because she asked her mother’s partner for a cigarette has been sentenced to three years prison.

The woman, 58, who can’t be named to protect her daughter’s identity, was sentenced yesterday in the District Court of Townsville.

The court heard the woman was drinking at a Palm Island home on September 14, 2016 when her daughter asked the woman’s partner for a cigarette.

The woman punched her daughter in the jaw, before her daughter hit back.

The woman went and got a machete from a bedroom and swung it at her daughter who suffered cuts to her hand and arm.

Defence Barrister Kelly Stone said his client had issues with alcohol and she had apologised to her daughter a number of telephone.

“She has had a long history of heavy drinking and she has instructed she gets wild when she drinks,” he said.

“She normally gets on well with her daughter and this is not the way she usually acts.”

The woman admitted to the attack when questioned by police.

She was charged with common assault and wounding domestic violence offence.

The woman will be eligible for parole on September 14 this year after already spending 252 days in custody awaiting sentencing.

Judge Greg Lynham warned the woman that arming herself with a knife could have serious consequences and result in the death of another person.

“It’s a very serious thing to arm yourself with a knife particularly when you’re affected by alcohol and use it in the way you did,” he said. times on the