Girls bring back biff

BABY products fuelled a fight between two women that ended with one delivering multiple punches to the other’s face, a court heard yesterday.

Lynette Ann Warner, 24, faced a Bundaberg District Court trial charged with assault causing bodily harm after a fight erupted when she went to collect baby products she said she lent her former friend Debra Roberts on April 16, last year.

But Ms Roberts, who had had a relationship with Warner’s brother, thought the woman had given her the portable cot, baby capsule and clothes.

“I don’t accept things (on loan) while I’m pregnant, what happens if something happens to it?” she said.

Warner had telephoned Ms Roberts in December 2008 and the conversation ended in the pair abusing each other, before Warner threatened her brother’s former girlfriend.

The defendant claimed she rang Ms Roberts asking for her stuff back, but Ms Roberts said it never came up during the conversation.

Ms Roberts told the court Warner yelled abuse at her from her front gate before bailing her up on her front veranda of her Moncrieff Street home and delivering the punches.

Ms Roberts was told several times by Judge Michael Rackemann to listen to the questions defence counsel Joseph Briggs was asking, especially after she asked Mr Briggs “are you crazy?”

Warner gave a different account of the events leading up to her punching the victim.

She said she confronted the woman on the street’s nature strip, outside her home, as Ms Roberts was using her whipper snipper.

Warner said the pair had a verbal confrontation and Ms Roberts told her she sold the stuff to another family member.

The court was told the other woman raised the whipper snipper and Warner batted it out of the way, before Ms Roberts grabbed Warner’s hair.

Warner then grabbed the other woman’s hair before delivering “two to three” punches to Ms Roberts’ face.

Injuries included a blood nose, and bruising and swelling to her face.

The jury delivered a not guilty verdict.