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A woman who made headlines for throwing a cream crepe at a chief minister has been handed a 12-month suspended sentence for aggravated assault.
During her court appearance, Milgate chose to represent herself. She attempted to file motions to have both the judge and the prosecutor removed, alleging they were biased and had conspired with the chief minister against her.
Standing confidently at the lawyers’ bench, she declared, “I feel as though all of you are acting on her behalf, while this dispute is solely between her and me.”
At 56, Milgate had already made a public apology on national television for her actions, but claimed that the chief minister, Fyles, had not accepted her apology.
Judge Franz denied both of Milgate’s requests, affirming that she found no evidence of bias in the proceedings.
Milgate said she had never been a bad person and would “never hurt a fly”.
Judge Franz accepted Milgate’s offending in the crepe incident was out of character and that she had previously been of excellent good character.
But when Milgate kept interrupting sentencing remarks, the judge warned her she would call security in.
The offending was premeditated, as Milgate had asked someone beforehand to film the crepe attack, with no remorse shown later, the judge said.
She took into account Milgate had been suffering stress, anxiety and depression at the time of the incident, had lost her real estate business and livelihood and had spent 24 days in jail after being arrested.
When Milgate heard she had been given a 12-month suspended jail sentence she began to cry and thanked the judge, saying “you redeemed yourself”.