Ontario's top court won't reduce sentence so woman convicted in bottle attack can dodge deportation - National Post

Copy URL Facebook Linked In X (Twitter) Loading account options Sign In Manage Account Close account menu Manage Account Sign Out Loading subscription options Subscribefor $0.50/week Osgoode Hall in Toronto, which houses the Court of Appeal for Ontario. (Craig Robertson/Toronto Sun/Postmedia) By Chris Lambie November 6, 2026 at 6:00 a.m. Last Updated: November 6, 2026 at 7:30 a.m. Ontario’s top court has drawn the line on when the immigration consequences of a sentence veer into unfit punishment in the case of a woman who struck a stranger in the head with a tossed table and two glass bottles.

It dismissed the Mississauga, Ont., woman’s claim that the judge, who sentenced her to a year in jail for the “gratuitous” attack that left her female victim with permanent and disfiguring injuries, failed to properly consider adverse immigration consequences.

Agata Trabinska, who is not a Canadian citizen, pleaded guilty to assault causing bodily harm for the Dec. 1, 2020, attack that took place at the Mountfort Restaurant, on Dundas Street East in Mississauga. The 43-year-old Trabinska has already served the sentence, but appealed it to fend off deportation to her native Poland, fearing she’d have to leave behind her three Canadian-born teenage sons, who are triplets.

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