A Western Australian woman has narrowly avoided jail for ramming her red Mustang into a bar on the south-west coast and hitting its manager with a stiletto heel.
Jenna Manley was instead handed a suspended sentence for repeatedly ramming her car into the Monkey Bar and Lounge, sending patrons running.
The mother-of-two is adamant her drink was spiked before the Valentine’s Day incident in Mandurah, about an hour south of Perth, last year.
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The real estate agent, who’d been asked to leave, hit the bar manager in the head three times with a stiletto before jumping in the car and mounting the curb.
Police eventually tracked debris from a popped tyre to her home, where she was arrested.
In court on Monday, the 40-year-old claimed she was drugged and had no memory of the night.
At one stage, she suggested her lawyer had blackmailed her into pleading guilty.
Outside court, she wouldn’t elaborate on those claims.
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Her lawyer said Manley had been involved in a very violent marriage breakup that had sent her off the planet.
Her offending also included threatening a neighbour and breaching a restraining order.
Along with a seven-month suspended sentence, Manley was fined almost $7000 and banned from driving for two years.
Support is available from the National Sexual Assault, Domestic Family Violence Counselling Service at 1800RESPECT (1800 737 732).
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