The Huntly woman who launched a racist tirade against a group of Muslim women has failed to show up to court to be sentenced for her outburst.
Megan Walton, 27, was due to be sentenced at the Hamilton District Court on Tuesday.
But a warrant was issued for her arrest after she failed arrive at court on time.
Before Judge Robert Spear issued the warrant, Walton's lawyer Gerard Walsh could only guess where his client was.
"I suspect she is hours south of here, probably in Palmerston North," he said.
She had previously pleaded guilty to three charges - two of assault and one of behaving in an insulting manner likely to cause violence.
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The attack happened in February when a group of Muslim women made a pit stop in the Waikato town while returning to Auckland from a road trip.
While some were waiting for the other outside a public toilet, Walton approached and, unprompted, began verbally abusing them.
One of those subjected to the tirade, Mehpara Khan, said at the time the group "weren't doing anything at all".
"We didn't invite it in any other way, other than the fact that we were dressed in a hijab - and she took offence to that," she told Newshub at the time.
Part of the encounter was filmed and showed Walton throwing alcohol cans toward the group as she told the group the "f***ing Muslim bitches" "didn't belong here".
Following her prompt guilty pleas, Walton made a cry for help saying she felt embarrassed and angry with herself for her actions.
Walton, who has a combination of mental illnesses, told Newshub she and her family felt let down by the health system.
"I'm really sorry that she got treated like that and had to see something like that," Walton said at the time.
"It's disgusting and I'm sorry. But that isn't who I am."
She said she wasn't racist, even saying her mother had converted to the Muslim faith.
Newshub.
