A 27-year-old Bega woman will be sentenced for an attack on a Big W shopper with a knife in April.
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Samantha Joyce Perry will be sentenced in Bega District Court on August 8 for wounding the 42-year-old woman, who was known to her, with the intent to cause her grievous bodily harm inside the store on April 23.
Perry appeared in Bega Local Court on Tuesday via audio visual link from Silverwater Women's Correctional Centre in Sydney wearing prison greens and her hair tied loosely in a ponytail.
She nodded her head as magistrate Doug Dick explained proceedings and the withdrawal of the more serious charge of of wounding with intent to murder in light of the guilty plea.
Police files say Perry stabbed the victim, who was in a wheelchair at the time, in the neck after alleged altercations inside Sapphire marketplace and the toy section of the store.
The files also say Perry fled the scene, but attended Bega Police Station later that day, handing in the weapon to police.
The maximum sentence for the offence in NSW is 25 years in prison.