A woman has faced court for attacking a man with a metal vacuum cleaner pole and cutting up his jacket with a knife causing him and his friend to run from her house.
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Rene Margaret Davis, 38, of Maxwell Avenue, met the two men about 3am on January 17 near Hungry Jacks on Bathurst Road when she was out with another woman and a teenage girl.
Davis approached the two men who she had not met before and invited them to her house to drink alcohol so they contacted a taxi that made two trips to take the group of five back to her address.
The group drank alcohol and some smoked cannabis and about 40 minutes after arriving at the house the victim's friend fell asleep on the floor.
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The victim then stayed up drinking and talking with Davis until about 7.30am when he said he needed to leave to go to work.
According to police he saw his friend still sleeping on the floor and he decided not to wake him up and instead went to a room where the other two females were sleeping and got a blanket to put on his friend.
However, Davis saw him go into the room armed herself with a metal vacuum cleaner pole and began accusing the man of attempting to sexually assault her friends. He denied the allegations but she pushed him into the lounge room waking the friend up.
Davis then grabbed a knife that was lying on the ground with her free hand and when asked told the friend the victim tried to sexually assault the others but he again denied it saying he was getting a blanket.
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Both men got out their wallets and threw money on the floor to appease her but it further angered her and she struck the first man with the pole. He sustained small cuts on his left knee and right elbow from the blows.
Davis then collected the man's jacket and cut it with her knife.
The man's friend went to leave the room to use the bathroom but she also struck him with the pole so he ran from the house.
According to police he ran about 500 metres and called them and in the meantime Davis told the first victim to leave and he also ran from the house and encountered his friend and the police who arrested Davis and took her to the Orange Police Station.
Magistrate David Day convicted Davis of intimidating each of the two men and gave her two two-year Community Correction Orders with 50 hours of community service each.
"It was quite a nasty incident and objectively the offending is aggravated by being in the home of a number of [people] and weapons were used," Mr Day said.
He also placed her on a six-month CCO for damaging the jacket, and two more concurrent two-year CCOs with 70 hours of community service each for assaulting each man.
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