In Australia, the wife of a diplomat who got drunk and then squeezed the bottom of a Victorian policeman, has avoided a criminal conviction - despite the fact that following her arrest she injured a prison guard.

Muna Mawrid, 31, whose Norwegian husband is posted to Vietnam, staggered from the bar Amnesia at 5am on May 10 and grabbed the officer's left butt cheek.

She apparently remarked, "I love you guys. You look so f***# ing hot with your nine-millimetres." Reportedly, Mawrid's eyes were glazed and her speech was slurred.

After her arrest, Mawrid requested her asthma inhaler. She then lunged at a female guard and pulled her into the cell and, in the struggle, the guard suffered a lacerated finger which needed stitches.

The Norwegian avoided a criminal conviction because, two days after the event, a doctor diagnosed her as suffering from post traumatic stress disorder.

Mawrid was put on a non-conviction 12-month undertaking to be of good behavior, ordered to pay $500 to the court fund, and to continue counseling for her condition.

It seems to me that her actions were more the result of feeling 'hot' than of PTSD but what do I know.

The Age