A failure to ‘keep the King’s Peace’ and the alleged biting of a police officer has almost landed a Canberra woman in jail for Christmas.<\/p>\n
The woman, 44, was granted bail by the ACT Magistrates Court today after being charged with causing actual bodily harm and resisting arrest.<\/p>\n
Police say they were called to a home in Moncrieff early yesterday, after reports of a disturbance between her and her partner.<\/p>\n
After police spoke to the couple, they both signed a written agreement to ‘keep the King’s Peace’ for twenty four hours.<\/p>\n
Police say signing an agreement to keep the peace is used as a way to diffuse tense situations, to avoid the full process of arrest.<\/p>\n
However, within hours police were called back to the same home, after a report the woman had allegedly been acting aggressively again.<\/p>\n
It was decided there had been a breach of the peace, and the woman was arrested.<\/p>\n
Woman allegedly bites police officer<\/p>\n
Police allege the woman resisted arrest, becoming aggressive and allegedly biting one of the officers on the leg.<\/p>\n
Today in court, prosecutors asked that she be banned from being near her partner, who the court was told had been supplying her with drugs.<\/p>\n
But the woman’s lawyer urged the court not to restrict the pair from being in each other’s company, because they plan to marry in three weeks time.<\/p>\n
The court agreed, but imposed strict conditions on the woman, including that she not take any drugs, submit to supervision and engage with mental health services.<\/p>\n
The case will return to court in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A failure to ‘keep the King’s Peace’ and the alleged biting of a police officer has almost landed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2666,114632,45387,64,63,198633,2667,1108,198632,44,1158],"class_list":["post-365715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-act","tag-act-magistrates-court","tag-arrest","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-biting","tag-canberra","tag-court","tag-keep-the-kings-peace","tag-news","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}