"If you have half a brain in your head you will find your way to the work centre. I don't think that you are that unwell."
Over the following month Bower completed only one more day's community work, presenting medical certificates excusing her from others, but the Probation Service did not accept them.
On Tuesday, Judge Paul Kellar said his only option was to send her to prison.
"You have had three cumulative sentences for violent offending and anti-social behaviour, and from everything I have read I could have no confidence that you would comply if I allowed you to finish them."
- The Greymouth Star