A Western Australian woman sentenced to six months in jail for hitch-hiking across the state's closed border has been freed after her lawyers won an appeal to have the decision overturned. 9News
for hitch-hiking across the state's closed border has been freed after her lawyers won an appeal to have the decision overturned.state's public health measuresShe was today ordered to complete 50 hours of community service after her original sentence, the nation's harshest punishment for a quarantine breach, was overturned.
"I understand completely that people are upset at me and I did take a huge risk at other people's expense, and I apologise," she said. "I felt like I got kicked in the stomach. I was gobsmacked, I was shocked … Just completely powerless," she said.
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