CHARGES OF PERJURY

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28658, 7 August 1958, Page 17

CHARGES OF PERJURY

Married Couple For Sentence (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON. August «. The prosecutions for al-, leged perjury to be brought in Wellington for many years were sought by the police in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court today against a husband and wife. Both pleaded guilty and were committed to the Supreme Court for sentence by Mr J. S. Hanna. S.M. The accused were Thomas Alan Greaves, aged 22, a workman, and Patricia Margaret Greaves, aged 25, a typist. Fergus Oliver Scott, a police inspector, said he prosecuted at a sitting of the Magistrate’s'Court last year before Mr W. H. Carson, S.M., when Greaves was charged with shopbreaking and theft. He said Greaves told the Court on that occasion that he bought ; a tape recorder found in his pos-: session from a man he met in a hotel bar and that he had borrowed £l5 from his fiancee (now his wife) towards the cost of the purchase. His fiancee had gone into the witness box during that hearing and sworn she had lent Greaves the £l5 he mentioned. Mr Carson subsequently amended the charge to one of receiving stolen property and Greaves had been sentenced to five months’ gaol, to be followed by probation fob one year. Ross McClean, a detective, said | further inquiries concerning the shopbreaking #ere made in April this year, and Greaves admitted quite frankly that he had broken into the shop, stolen the recorder land two razors and subsequently committed perjury in the Court by swearing he, bought the recorder from a strange man with the help of money he borrowed from his fiancee.