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A young woman who attacked a bartender with her shoe will have to cool her heels on house arrest.
The blow delivered by the woman’s high-heeled weapon opened a gash above the victim’s eye.
“You could have very easily taken out this individual’s eye with your shoe,” Judge John Combs said in Brandon court on Monday as Oshie Jean-Marie Guenter was sentenced for assault.
According to the police report, Guenter was in the bar at the Souris Motor Inn during the early morning of March 17 when she slapped another customer in the face.
The female bartender then cut Guenter off and escorted her outside.
Guenter complained that one of her shoes was still inside and the bartender fetched it for her.
As the bartender returned and presented Guenter with her shoe, Guenter used the second shoe in her other hand to hit the bartender in the head.
The blow sent the bartender stumbling back and opened one cut above her eye and another above her hairline. The victim’s eye was swollen and blood trickled down her face.
Guenter took another swing with the shoe at another bartender who intercepted her as she tried to re-enter the bar, but that blow did no damage.
When RCMP found and arrested Guenter days later, she told them that she was so drunk during the assault that she couldn’t remember what had happened.
In court on Monday, 20-year-old Guenter was sentenced for the assault and two unrelated counts of breaching release orders.
Defence lawyer Philip Sieklicki asked that Guenter be spared jail and receive house arrest instead. Steps she has taken to improve her life have included substance abuse treatment and counselling, Sieklicki said.
While he described the shoe attack as “extremely serious,” Combs agreed with Sieklicki and sentenced Guenter to five months house arrest for all her charges.
She’ll then be on probation for a year.
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Republished from the Brandon Sun print edition January 15, 2013
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A young woman who attacked a bartender with her shoe will have to cool her heels on house arrest.
The blow delivered by the woman’s high-heeled weapon opened a gash above the victim’s eye.
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A young woman who attacked a bartender with her shoe will have to cool her heels on house arrest.
The blow delivered by the woman’s high-heeled weapon opened a gash above the victim’s eye.
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