A Wakari woman who was attacked in her home earlier this year has given up her fight to have the 21-year-old student involved charged, but remains disappointed with the outcome and questions how remorseful her assailant is.
Ivy Ding was home with her young son and elderly mother in August when the drunken 21-year-old student smashed Ms Ding's bedroom window and grabbed her, causing cuts to her hands.
The student also damaged pot plants around Ms Ding's property, throwing one at a door, and Ms Ding believed she was responsible for damage to her car.
Police emails released to the Otago Daily Times earlier this week under the Official Information Act show Senior Sergeant Dave Scott, the officer who reviewed the attending constables' actions, considered charging the 21-year-old and offering diversion but found the case did not meet the solicitor-general's guidelines for prosecution because of the young woman's level of intoxication.
A police report revealed she was in a ''dream state, disassociated to the present dealings or environment'' and that officers found her ''emotional and distressed, rambling incoherently about unrelated and irrelevant things''.
Ms Ding praised Snr Sgt Scott's dealings with her but said she was disappointed charges would not follow.
''There's nothing I can do because even if I go to the court and get a lawyer, the position will be the same,'' she said.
Ms Ding received a letter of apology from the student and she was trespassed from her house, but Ms Ding questioned the level of her remorse.
''It's really unfortunate because [Snr Sgt] Dave [Scott] suggested to write a letter to the girl and her parents and I did and he came the next day to collect the letter and he emailed me to say it was delivered but then I didn't hear anything,'' she said.
''I included an invoice and some payments which were not covered by insurance but I haven't heard from them.
''The girl didn't contact me, the parents didn't reply to me and I only get the insurance company coming this week and replacing the window in the bedroom and the front door.
''It's quite disappointing, really.''
She was upset by the drawn-out process to fix her property and that she was left footing some of the bill.
''There's nothing we can do except accept what happened.''
