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Woman charged with offensive language over Sydney train tirade | Woman charged with offensive language over Sydney train tirade |
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A woman who let loose with a torrent of racial abuse against an innocent Asian woman on a Sydney train has been charged with using offensive language. | |
The 55-year-old woman said her name was Sue Wilkins on the train but police have confirmed her name is Karen Bailey. | |
She turned herself in to Wyong police station on the New South Wales central coast at 6pm on Thursday, and will appear in court at the Downing Centre on 31 July. Police have also spoken to a number of witnesses. | |
Bailey appeared to mock the language and facial features of the other passenger on a Sydney to Newcastle train on Wednesday. | |
After she caused a scene inside the carriage, police first spoke to Bailey on Wednesday when she got off at Strathfield in Sydney's west. | |
After video of the attack went viral, Bailey told the Nine Network she just had a "brain snap" and couldn't stop. | |
"I was just getting all this anger out at anybody that would be near me, anybody at all," she said on Thursday. "No one deserves to be spoken to like that ... " | |
If found guilty of offensive behaviour, she faces a $500 fine. | If found guilty of offensive behaviour, she faces a $500 fine. |