“I thought I was going to die,” Donna Macklan said in Albury Local Court when describing the attack on her in January.

She said she was knocked from her wheelchair as she tried to leave a house in Kentucky Avenue, Lavington, after a confrontation.

The blows were mainly to her lower back. She also suffered a broken elbow.

Christie Keighran yesterday pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm, malicious damage, offensive behaviour and resisting arrest.

But solicitor Terence O’Riain said while Keighran pleaded guilty to the essential ingredients of the assault occasioning actual bodily harm and malicious damage, there was a dispute on the facts.

“There is agreement there were injuries. There is disagreement to the extent of the injuries,” Mr O’Riain said.

Two doctors who treated Ms Macklan were originally not required to give evidence.

But Mr O’Riain told magistrate Megan Greenwood it was now necessary to call them as witnesses.

The court was told Ms Macklan had lived as a woman for four years.

She became a partial paraplegic in a car crash several years ago with fractures to her right side and back injuries.

She can walk only a few steps.

There was an argument when she went to a Kentucky Avenue house about 3.25pm on January 15.

Keighran, 22, of Turner Street, Lavington, called her a morphrodite and fetched a spade from the yard.

Ms Macklan tried to leave, but Keighran began hitting her motorised chair, causing damage to either side, the computer box and tyres.

“She was trying to hit me, but luckily she was hitting the wheelchair,” Ms Macklan said.

She was knocked from the wheelchair and hit several times to the head and face.

Ms Macklan managed to get into her chair and go home but collapsed on a bed. Police arrived soon after.

Police prosecutor Sgt Chris Toole tendered photographs of Ms Macklan’s injuries.

Mr O’Riain has disputed the damage estimate of $3463.08 for the wheelchair.

The case has been adjourned until October 31.