PERTH WOMAN JAILED FOR ATTACKING LOVE RIVAL’S CAR WITH POLICE-STYLE BATON
A Perth woman named Meghann Beckers was sentenced to jail after she attacked her love rival’s car with a police-style telescopic baton and made off with the victim’s handbag.The incident occurred as Mandy Kerr was driving her silver hatchback along Newhouse Place in Perth.
Beckers approached the vehicle, struck it with the baton, then opened the passenger door and stole the handbag before fleeing.
CCTV footage was shown in Perth Sheriff Court, capturing the moment of the attack.
At the time of the incident, Beckers was on bail with a condition to stay away from Ms Kerr, but she ignored this and confronted her.
Her solicitor, Paul Ralph, stated that she regretted her actions and acknowledged the seriousness of her predicament, noting that she understood a custodial sentence might be necessary.
The prosecution revealed that Mandy Kerr is the estranged wife of Beckers’s partner.
Kerr was exiting her car when she saw Beckers approaching with a baton, struck her vehicle’s window, then targeted her and took her handbag.
Beckers, who was a prisoner in Edinburgh, admitted to assaulting Kerr by brandishing the baton and damaging her vehicle.
She also confessed to robbing the handbag, breaching her bail condition imposed two weeks earlier, and previously behaving in a threatening manner at Perth Royal Infirmary on April 21, 2018, as well as an incident involving a property on June 4, 2017.
The sheriff, Lindsay Foulis, described Beckers’s lengthy record of various offences—violence, dishonesty, breach of bail, and disorderly conduct—and concluded that custody was the only appropriate sentence.
Beckers was sentenced to 32 months in prison and will be supervised for 12 months following her release.
