A WOMAN who threw items out of her window and threatened someone with a hammer – leaving a tennis-ball-sized hole in a shed – has been sentenced to six months’ probation.
Kerry Pearl Allen was sentenced for one count of malicious damage and one count of behaving in a threatening and abusive way.
On 19 March this year, the States of Jersey Police received a call saying Allen was throwing pots and a chair into the community gardens below where she lives, the Magistrate’s Court was told on Friday.
Shortly after, a call from another person came in, reporting that Allen had appeared in the community gardens with a hammer.
As she brandished the tool, she missed the female caller “by a whisker”, Centenier Steven Laffoley-Edwards, who was appearing for the prosecution, said.
He added that she had also insulted the woman making the emergency call by branding her a “f*****g b***h”.
The caller then took refuge in a bin shelter, and Allen threw items towards the shed.
This left a hole roughly the size of a tennis ball.
Advocate Adam Harrison, who was defending Allan, said that his client had shown “genuine remorse”.
Relief Magistrate Nuno Santos-Costa was presiding.
Handing down the sentence, he warned Allen: “If anything happens during that period and you come back before the court, then the court will deal with it very differently.”
“I’m putting my faith in you so that you do not do anything like this again,” he added.
