Northbridge glassing: Kailey Marion Secomb avoids jail after Perth court told victim threw the first glass

A young woman who glassed another female pub-goer — narrowly missing her eyes — at the Brass Monkey Hotel has narrowly escaped jail after it was revealed her victim allegedly threw the first glass. Kailey Marion Secomb was yesterday sentenced to a two-year intensive supervision order over the June 2020 assault, which left fellow pub-goer Brooke Jeffers with a 4cm-long facial laceration and a fractured nose. The 22-year-old pleaded guilty to the unlawful wounding in September — three months after she handed herself into police after learning of her victim’s injuries. The Perth Magistrate’s Court was yesterday morning told the altercation came after a group of nearby men had repeatedly harassed Secomb and her girlfriend. “(They) were, for lack of a better word, harassing her girlfriend and throwing ice cubes at her girlfriend and making lewd comments towards her group,” defence lawyer Caley Catto said. After Secomb attempted to diffuse the situation by asking one of the men to leave them alone — which he ignored — things escalated. The court was told CCTV cameras at the Northbridge pub had captured the moment Secomb tipped up her near-empty drink on the man, prompting a small amount of liquid to splash onto Ms Jeffers. But Ms Catto said the footage also showed Ms Jeffers allegedly hurl a “significant amount of liquid ... across the table at Ms Secomb”. “Whilst we don’t seek to blame the complainant in any way, shape or form, we do have to note that instantly the complainant (then) yelled quite loudly at Ms Secomb, ‘don’t f..king throw drinks at people’. Which was then immediately followed by her standing up on her barstool and throwing a whole glass towards Ms Secomb,” she said. The revelation helped strengthen the defence’s case, with Ms Catto saying her client’s “sudden and impulsive reaction” was in “direct response to an entire glass being thrown at her” and her “fight or flight” reaction — brought on by her complex post-traumatic stress disorder and intermittent explosive disorder “It was a very very sudden reaction ... and she really just threw her cup back in the direction of the complainant,” Ms Catto said. Chief Magistrate Stephen Heath took into account the circumstances leading up to the assault, acknowledging Secomb’s reaction had been “instinctive rather than considered” and said she’d taken “substantial steps” towards better herself since the incident. “You have been an exemplary person,” he said of Secomb, who has maintained her job in the hospitality industry since the June 13 assault and has maintained her regular visits to her psychologist. “You have done everything that has been required of you and more.” Mr Heath said going to prison would be “detrimental” for Secomb, and noted she continued to have the full support of her employer, her family and her partner. Secomb was sentenced to a two-year intensive supervision order and also ordered to complete 50 hours of unpaid community work.