A Victorian woman slapped with a suspended jail term and criminal record for having a picnic with her dying father while subject to quarantine rules has won an appeal to have her sentence reduced.
A Victorian woman slapped with a suspended jail term and criminal record for having a picnic with her dying father while subject to quarantine rules has won an appeal to have her sentence reduced.
“The appellant was 49 years of age at the time of the offending, with outstanding antecedents, and she lawfully entered Western Australia after making all necessary inquiries and applications to enter with permission to visit her dying elderly father,” he said.
“The appellant understood that she was permitted to visit her father at the hospital. That was so until her father, a patient in palliative care, was
transferred to the second hospital.
“The appellant had a negative COVID-19 test result on day two of her self-quarantine ... [and] was actively meeting her obligations.”
The woman is the fourth person to successfully appeal their jail sentence for breaching quarantine laws in WA.
https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/victorian-woman-given-jail-term-for-visiting-dying-father-in-wa-wins-appeal-20210818-p58jrf.html
So if you are not up go speed on the arcane rules - you are ok with the rules until we move your dad to another hospital, and then you are no longer ok - you get sentenced to jail time which you can, for now and in our infinite mercy, appeal.
The WA CMO, like Allah, is all-knowing, merciful.
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