An Ottawa judge has granted a conditional discharge for a woman who attacked her elderly neighbours in their home as they were sitting down to dinner, causing a deep gash to the man’s right forearm and extensive bruising to his wife’s right arm.

Manon Rail pleaded guilty in Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice to unlawfully entering the apartment of Margaret and Thomas Keogh. She knocked on their door on Oct. 12, 2022 and pushed her way into the couple’s home.

“She demanded the keys to the apartment that belonged to a previous tenant. When Margaret Keogh told her to leave, she refused and got physical with Mrs. Keogh before then pushing Thomas Keogh, who fell and sustained injuries to his arm which required an overnight stay at the hospital,” Justice Adriana Doyle wrote in a recent decisi

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