Townsville Bulletin

Woman feeds it to cops at .364

- ELISABETH SILVESTER

A TEENAGER who hurled abuse at police and simulated sexual gestures has been told she was lucky to be alive after returning a blood alcohol reading of .364.

Kiara Singh, 20, was 19 and on parole when she obstructed police officers while intoxicate­d.

The Townsville Magistrate­s Court heard Singh was at a Cranbrook house when police attended to question an occupant at the address on February 8 this year.

As police questioned the occupant, Singh walked up to the police and questioned why they were at the property and pushed a police officer’s arm.

The court heard the officer cautioned Singh and she was told to wait under the house.

Police prosecutor Tim Madsen told the court as Singh waited underneath the house police observed her rubbing her breasts under her shirt and touching her genitalia.

Mr Madsen said Singh screamed to police, “I’m gonna f**k something” while “performing highly sexualised gestures”. Singh then ran towards a police officer screaming, “It’s on, it’s on you co**sucker” and grabbed his arm. The court heard Singh was placed under arrest and physically resisted being placed in handcuffs.

Singh continued to abuse police screaming, “motherf***er, f**k you, I don’t give a f**k you white motherf***ing c**ksucking c**ts”.

Police arrested Singh and an alcohol breath test returned a reading of .364.

As Mr Madsen told the court the alcohol reading, Magistrate Viviana Keegan said out loud, “wow”.

On February 22 police were called to a residence at 9.10pm to remove Singh from the property as she was no longer welcome. The court heard when police tried to remove Singh she yelled out, “white dogs” and started smashing her fists against the unit wall.

As Singh left the property she started punching a concrete pillar and she was arrested for public intoxicati­on.

Singh pleaded guilty to seven charges including three counts of obstruct police officer and one count of public nuisance.

Mr Madsen said Singh had spent three months in custody after her parole had been suspended and suggested an appropriat­e sentence would be to convict and not further punish.

Defence lawyer Troydan Maltby told the court Singh had a difficult upbringing.

Magistrate Keegan told Singh she needed to address her alcohol issues.

“At .364 a lot of people would be dead or unconsciou­s or in hospital with that much alcohol in their system so no wonder you were acting terribly,” she said. “If you don’t start doing something about your alcohol, you are not going to have a good future and at 20 you could be doing all sorts of good things.”

Singh was convicted and not further punished.

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