AN Oaklands woman who was shot in 2011 has outlined in a statement to police hearing a noise similar to a bird swooping before feeling a strange sensation in her neck, a court has been told.
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Helen Preedy was out walking in the town close to home when she suffered the injury.
She was carrying a handkerchief in her right hand and immediately put it to side of the neck before seeking assistance from a nearby house.
The circumstances of Mrs Preedy being shot by a .22 bullet were detailed in her statement which forms part of an extensive police brief of evidence.
It had previously been tendered relating to charges involving Oaklands man Cory Dean Beagley.
Beagley, 33, of Buller Street, has been charged with firing a firarem in a manner like to injure someone, using an unauthorised prohibited firearm and recklessly causing grievous bodily harm.
His committal was listed in Albury Local Court on August 29, but was deferred until yesterday after an indication by Beagley that he wanted to call 18 witnesses at a committal, including three experts and two doctors.
But Beagley failed to lodge his application for witnesses, represented himself and magistrate Tony Murray committed him to stand trial.
The case has been adjourned to the District Court sittings starting in Albury on October 13.
The statement by Mrs Preedy, then 61, said she went for a walk after her evening meal on December 28.
She was wearing a pink polo shirt, navy blue shorts, ankle socks and sneakers.
It was about 7.45pm when she was in Kilpatrick Street that she heard the noise similar to a bird swooping.
After feeling the strange sensation in her neck, she thought she had been hit by a bird.
Mrs Preedy felt swelling in her neck, could not swallow and kept the handkerchief pressed against where she felt the sensation.
She went to a nearby house, knocked at the front door and then went to the back door seeking help after hearing music.
The people at the house placed her on the ground, said there was a lot of blood, got a towel and called an ambulance.
Her husband arrived and Mrs Preedy told him she thought a bird had hit her.
She was taken to the Corowa Hospital by ambulance and was transferred to the Albury Hospital where she went into intensive care.
The next morning a doctor said: “I think we should call police as you’ve been shot”.