A woman who damaged two properties last summer was ordered to pay $260 to a homeowner on Thursday.

Patricia Horner, 71, admitted damaging the boundary wall of a private residence as well as a government property when she appeared in Magistrates’ Court at an earlier date.

The court heard that Horner, from Paget, spray-painted “Netanyahu Must Go!” against a wall near the junction of Middle Road and Montpelier Road in Devonshire on June 12.

Horner was asked to return to the location and told officers she sprayed the wall after learning about the United States’s wish to bomb Iran.

Police who searched Horner’s car at the scene found a spray can under the driver’s seat.

Horner told the court on Thursday that she committed the offences “as an expression of angst, horror and hopelessness at the situation in Gaza”.

Magistrate Maria Sofianos sentenced Horner to a six-month conditional discharge, ordering her to pay $260 in restitution and not commit another offence within that time.

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