An attack on an Auckland family in the city on Easter Monday has kept a young Dunedin woman in custody.
Charlene Amelia Hunt (22), unemployed, was originally charged with assaulting Jinhyuck Joung with a weapon.
But when she appeared before Judge Stephen Coyle in the Dunedin District Court yesterday, she admitted an amended charge of Crimes Act assault and was remanded in custody for sentence next month.
Hunt has been in custody on remand since her arrest for the Easter Monday incident and no application was made for bail after her guilty plea on the amended charge.
Prosecutor Sergeant Steven Armitage said the defendant and three associates had been drinking when they were on George St in the late afternoon of April 9. They saw the 50-year-old victim and his family and began abusing them and making racist remarks.
One of the victim's family told them to "back off" before the family continued walking along George St.
The defendant and her friends followed, still shouting abuse and Hunt threw a bottle at the victim. It missed and landed on the street.
One of the associates then went up to the victim and punched him in the face before the group ran away. The victim was not injured, Sgt Armitage said.
Hunt admitted throwing the bottle and racially abusing the victim but said "it wasn't an assault" as the bottle did not break.
She was remanded for sentence on June 8, when she is to appear for sentence on other charges.
