Murray Bridge woman jailed for assault, threats
A local woman will serve at least eight months behind bars over an assault in Murray Bridge and an altercation at Callington.
A Murray Bridge woman has been sentenced to a minimum of eight months in prison for an assault and robbery, and for threatening to kill another woman, last year.
Nikki Cekanauskas and another offender, her partner at the time, are alleged to have ambushed a woman on Homburg Drive, Murray Bridge on April 8, 2023.
They allegedly demanded money, punched and kicked her, and took a backpack containing $470 in cash, a phone, two sets of headphones and personal effects.
The attack was not random – the victim had come to live at Cekanauskas’ property a week earlier.
Both Cekanauskas and her then-partner were arrested in Murray Bridge that night.
Police recovered the backpack in the car park at Bridge Bowl, and the victim’s phone at the Swanport Hotel.
While Cekanauskas was out on bail, she then made various threats against another woman at Callington on June 27, 2023, including that she would kill her and her pets and maim her partner.
She was arrested again on July 31.
According to a court transcript, Cekanuaskas would later tell a psychologist that she believed she had been wronged by both of her victims, and that she had been affected by drugs when she committed the offences.
In Adelaide’s District Court last Tuesday, Judge Nicolas Alexandrides suggested that was no excuse.
He sentenced her to one year and five months in prison, with a non-parole period of eight months, after she pleaded guilty to charges of aggravated robbery, aggravated assault causing harm, threatening to cause harm and breaching bail.
She will be eligible for release next February.
