Lucille Anastasia Monks (52) was sentenced in the Magistrate’s Court to 120 hours’ community service and 12 months’ probation after being found guilty of committing a grave and criminal assault on the man following a trial last month.
The court heard that the former St Clement honorary police officer blamed the man and his company for long delays to a construction project she had commissioned on a St Clement property.
Giving evidence during the trial, the man said that before Monks, of Chevre Rue, Grouville, attacked him she had been ‘shouting and screaming’ at him.
The victim said that Monks hit him with a ceramic tile sample board when he turned his back. He said he suffered from stiffness to his neck and arm for about two weeks. However, there were no visible injuries recorded at the time.
Advocate Jane Martin, defending Monks, said despite the court’s verdict her client maintained her innocence. She added that the building contract was originally supposed to be for eight months from November 2014 but there was no end in sight when the assault was committed in September 2016.
In sentencing, Relief Magistrate David Le Cornu told Monks: ‘I believe that you were extremely angry and frustrated because your building programme had been delayed so much. I believe that you lost control and that your anger got the better of you. It is most fortunate [the victim] did not suffer serious injury.’
He told Monks that ‘she had come very close’ to being sent to prison and when he imposed 120 hours of community service, he said that was the equivalent of six months in jail – the sentence he had been considering.
