Lily Moody: Womans court win over alleged music festival assault

A Sydney woman who was dragged out of bed by her ex-boyfriend’s mum while banned from seeing him has returned to court — this time over an alleged music festival fight.

Lily Moody gasped in relief at Sutherland Local Court on Tuesday as a magistrate dismissed an assault charge against her.

The court heard accusations the 21-year-old woman from Cronulla was lining up for the toilet at a music festival between 5pm and 5:15pm on December 10 last year when she started yelling profanities at another young woman she knew.

She was accused of kicking the woman “really hard in the groin,” leaving the woman “shaking and traumatised”.

Referencing the alleged victim’s evidence given in court, Magistrate Gemma Slack-Smith said she claimed it was a “significant incident in her life and will never forget it”.

But Magistrate Gemma Slack-Smith ultimately sided with Moody, who pleaded not guilty to a charge of domestic-violence related assault.

The court heard it came down to an “oath versus oath” version of events between Ms Moody and her accused, because the only other witness’ evidence was deemed unreliable.

Magistrate Slack-Smith said the witness gave evidence that Ms Moody kicked the woman in the groin, but admitted she previously told police she actually saw her kick her in the knee, and changed her evidence after speaking with the alleged victim.

Moody maintained her innocence, having told the court her accused was the one who mumbled “s**t” under her breath and “nudged” Moody, causing her to push her back in self-defence.

She alleged the incident happened outside a music tent and not near the toilets.

Magistrate Slack-Smith dismissed the charge.

Her decision — which included dismissing an apprehended violence order (AVO) application to protect the accuser — caused Moody and her friend to gasp and smile from the court’s public gallery.

This was not the glamorous woman’s first time through the court system.

In 2020, she was sentenced to a 12-month conditional release order (CRO) without conviction after pleading guilty to breaching an AVO put in place to protect her ex-boyfriend.

According to the St George Shire Standard, Moody was in her ex-boyfriend’s bed at his Caringbah home, at 4.30am when she was busted by his mum.

This came just weeks after a court order was made which prevented her from seeing him, contacting him or going within 100m of the home.

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According to agreed facts tendered to court, the mother heard Moody’s voice and messaged her son asking her to leave.

She then went downstairs to find them in bed together, but Moody refused to leave.

“His mother had to resort to reasonable physical force to try and get Moody to leave and grabbed her by the hair as an attempt to get her out of the bed and out of the bedroom,” the facts stated.

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