A FORMER Jindera woman who demanded money before lunging with a Stanley knife at an Albury motelier earlier this year has been committed for sentence on two attempted armed robbery charges.
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Felisha Gilkison, 23, told Bill Papanestora at the Burvale Motor Inn on January 27: “Give me all your money”.
He suggested she was joking and Gilkison said she wasn’t before lunging over a counter as Mr Papanestora moved backwards to evade her.
He was only 45 centimetres from her outstretched hand and told her: “I just hit the panic button and you have three seconds to get out of here. The police have been called”.
Just five minutes earlier, Gilkison tried to rob the Manor House without any success.
She was arrested a short time after leaving the Burvale and later apologised, telling police: “I need money. I am in debt and I am now unemployed”.
The details of Gilkison’s robbery attempts were outlined in facts tendered in Albury Local Court after she pleaded guilty along with other charges relating to a house break-in at Sackville Street where jewellery worth more than $27,000 was stolen.
The original value of the jewellery was put at $18,500, but Director of Public Prosecutions representative Tonya Adamson yesterday amended the figure to $27,491.
Gilkison has been remanded in custody since March and appeared via a video link.
Magistrate Gordon Lerve committed her for sentence in the District Court sittings in Albury starting on November 15.
She has pleaded guilty to charges of break, enter and steal and receiving from the house theft.
The jewellery stolen on February 10 was sold for $450 so Gilkison could buy food and personal items.
She told a flat mate on March 6 about the offence and five days later wrote out a confession before handing herself into the police station.
Gilkison knew police had her fingerprints and would identify her.
She was on police bail from the attempted armed robbery matters when the house theft was done.
Her first attempted robbery at the Manor House about 4pm was thwarted by a staff member saying they had no cash and only accepted credit cards.
She walked out, the police were notified and Gilkison went just a short distance before trying to rob Mr Papanestora.
An attempt was made by her to hide the Stanley knife down the front of her shirt.
