A woman assaulted an officer with a quiche (Picture: Tony Buckingham)

Most people choose to use sturdy items when carrying out assaults but that wasn’t the case for a woman in Australia who decided to hit a police officer with a quiche.

Franklin Jane Bugmy was found guilty of the offence after authorities said she struck constable James Wheatley with the baked goods after first ramming him with her pram.

The 41-year-old had apparently been annoyed she was given the wrong documents after police approached her with an apprehended violence order last year.

But the mother denied the charge and insisted she was just trying to protect her child.


‘They’re saying I had room to move,’ Bugmy said outside the court.



‘I had no room to move. The quiche was thrown down to save my baby from tipping out of the pram.’

But magistrate Geoffrey Dunlevy disagreed and said a police photograph showed she didn’t have to ram the officer and the quiche had been powerfully thrown at him.

Bugmy will find out what her punishment is in three weeks’ time.