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A Betoota Grove mother of three told reporters this morning that she’s a ‘cool mum’ – just hours before police arrested her at the six-bedroom Tudor revival home on Whiteshoe Crescent.
Bernice Cole Watson, 46, has been charged by police for supplying alcohol to her youngest child who was due to attend a small gathering of friends this evening in the local area.
Authorities were tipped off by a bottle shop attendant who alleges that Mrs Watson, a mid-level-marketing ‘double diamond’ sales executive, told the man that she was buying the alcohol for her underage daughter because she was a ‘cool mum’.
Prior to her arrest this afternoon, Mrs Watson boldly bragged about her crimes to our reporter, who’d just enjoyed a cone in his wife’s Tarago during the lunch break in the carpark of the Old City District Vintage Cellars which sits opposite The Advocate’s Daroo Street newsroom.
“My mother used to buy me alcohol,” she said, talking at our reporter through the driver’s side window.
“She was a cool Mum. She used to go off with her friends and leave the house to me and my friends and we’d have boys over and everything!”
Our reporter looked down into the centre console of the Tarago to see if he’d accidentally taken a hit out of the changa bag instead of the weed because this unwarranted admission of criminal negligence by Mrs Watson, to a stranger came across as weird.
Noticing our reporter was barely keeping it together, Mrs Watson closed the rear hatch of her late model GLA Mercedes and left.
More to come.
