Thirty-two-year-old Townsville woman, Susan Donna Daniells, was released from custody yesterday after being found guilty of using a carriage service to menace, harass or cause offence.
Daniells was sentenced yesterday by Judge Greg Lynham in the District Court of Townsville to 12 months in prison, but was released on a $500 reconnaissance, and under the conditions that she be of good behaviour and complete 18 months probation.
She had already spent 134 days in custody.
Between December 9, 2016, and Australia Day this year, Daniells made 154 calls to triple-0.
In court, Lynham said:
“Your offending and using the triple-0 service in the way you have is inexcusable. I’d like to think Ms Daniells in times of you being lucid you would well understand the triple-0 service is a very important service.
“The last thing the police need is for people like you repeatedly ringing the triple-0 number and abusing the operators who are just doing their jobs.
“It’s unacceptable. There is no excuse for it and the fact you have a long history of engaging in this sort of conduct is very concerning for me.”
Daniells’ barrister, Harvey Walters, described his client’s calls as a cry for help, drawing attention to her mental heath issues, which include depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, and borderline personality disorder.
In 2014, Daniells was sentenced to 162 days imprisonment, declared as time served, for making hundreds of calls to emergency services, some from public phone boxes, where she would swear at operators, then hang up.
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Source: Townsville Bulletin
