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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
National
Toby Vue

'Justice system has no perfect record': Case of threats to court witness dropped

Charges of threatening and harassing a court witness against a woman have been dropped and dismissed with a magistrate saying the "criminal justice system has no perfect record for engaging people challenged by mental illness".

Dianne Frances Boland, 72, was charged with three counts each of threatening a witness and using a carriage service to harass.

The prosecution case was that Ms Boland left three voice messages on another woman's home phone in March 2019 about the latter being called as a witness in a Supreme Court trial.

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