FIVE CHARGES OF ASSAULT

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29389, 16 December 1960, Page 23

FIVE CHARGES OF ASSAULT

Six Months’ Gaol For “Drunken Thug” (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, December 15. “This is just plain, drunken thuggery, and there is no excuse for it,” said Mr M. C. Astley, S.M., in the Auckland Magistrate’s Court today in sending Moli Alaalotoa, aged 22, a shoe finisher, to gaol for six months on five chadges of assault —two on women and three on men. Alaalatoa had pleaded guilty Only to assaulting two men. Witnesses said that Alaalatoa grabbed a girl outside a dance hall last night and knocked down a man who came to help her The man was also kicked several times. Another man was also struck. The accused then walked down the road and struck an elderly man who was crossing the road between two cars. Turning into another street, Alaalatoa went up to a woman walking' in the street, grabbed her by the coat, and swung his arm to hit her, but she ducked and called a constable. The Magistrate told the accused: “You went almost berserk and assaulted total strangers.” He said he would recommend that Alaalatoa’s deportation to the Islands should be considered at the end of his prison sentence.