A magistrate has warned a repeat offender that she is at risk of going back to jail is she returns to court.
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Hailey Rose Bates told Albury Local Court this week that she hadn't been in trouble with the law since January.
But a quick check by prosecutor Sergeant Andrew Pike showed she was facing charges of having suspected stolen goods in custody and breaching COVID-19 restrictions.
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She told magistrate Richard Funston her partner was the one at fault.
Bates was before the court this week on charges of larceny and dishonestly obtaining property by deception in January.
That offending breached five bonds for multiple counts of assaulting police, larceny and shoplifting.
She spent 61 days in custody as a result of the offending, followed by four or five months in a psychiatric hospital.
Her lawyer said she was off drugs and regularly takes her medication, which she had gone off at the time of the offending.
She receives monthly injections.
Mr Funston placed her on a community corrections order with a condition she refrain from using drugs.
"I haven't touched it for a long time," she said.
The magistrate specifically warned her off ice.
"With your mental health issues, that would be disastrous," he said.
"If you come back before me ... you would really run the risk of being locked up."'
