THEFT OF NEW CAR
YOUNG MAN SENT TO PRISON (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, January 23. Keith Raymond Roache, aged 26, a driver, appeared today before Mr M. C. Astley, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court for sentence on a charge of theft of a new car valued at £BB3, from the premises of Tappenden Motors, Ltd., on December 30. He was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment. Roache pleaded guilty last week, when the Court was told that before stealing the car he had obtained the chassis and engine numbers of the car and registered it. For Roache, Mr K. C. Aekins said that the accused had a number of convictions in Australia. He had come to New Zealand because the consorting laws there were much stricter than they were in the Dominion. Describing the offence as an impudent. well-conceived theft, the Magistrate told Roache that it was always a matter of regret to see an alert, intelligent and pleasant-looking man like him in the dock on such a charge. He said a man with the accused’s personality could easily earn big money at a good job.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27874, 24 January 1956, Page 5
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