An Adelaide court has issued a warrant for a woman in relation to a house party held during South Australia's last COVID-19 lockdown.
Bitanya Sibeko failed to appear for a hearing on her charge of failing to comply with a health directive.
She was one of five people arrested when police attended a house party in the suburb of Lightsview on July 26, allegedly for the fourth time in five days.
Magistrate Michelle Sutcliff issued a warrant for Ms Sibeko's arrest to ensure she attends court.
The party was in Adelaide's north-east suburbs, the epicentre of the July outbreak of the Delta variant of COVID-19.
Four other people, a 24-year-old man who lived at the home in Lightsview, a 29-year-old Torrensville woman, a 19-year-old woman also from Fairview Park and a 24-year-old man from Salisbury North — were charged with breaching the Emergency Management Act.
They are also scheduled to face court this week.
At the time, South Australian Police Commissioner Grant Stevens, responding to question from a journalist, called the group "alleged idiots" for deliberately ignoring health directions.
"It's incredibly frustrating but it's not so much my personal frustration," he said.
"I think everybody else who is doing the right thing in South Australia should be really disappointed in the fact that some people just think these rules just don't apply to them."
But he also said the Lightsview party was "not the worst example" of lockdown breaches.
"Over the past 18 months, we have seen more instances where there have been more severe restrictions in place on the community where we have seen large gatherings and the police have responded," the commissioner said at the time.
Editor's note (11/05/2022): This story has been amended to reflect the charges and the correct gender of the person named in the story.
