Magistrate’s Court Suspended Sentence For Man On Assault Charge

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29791, 6 April 1962, Page 16

Magistrate’s Court Suspended Sentence For Man On Assault Charge

Allan Matheson Bishop, aged 33. a carpet layer, p.eaded guilty when he appeared before Mr E A. Lee SM. in tne Magistrate's Court yesterday on a charge of assault on April 5 Bishop was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence in six months if called on.

Sergeant E. S. Tuck said that at 125 am. yesterday the attention at a constable at the Ara mi: motor camp was drawn to a woman screaming and people milling about in an area of the camp grounds. The constable saw the accused throw a woman to the ground The constable, wa the aid of another man, pulled the accused aw-ay from the woman. The accused was furiously excited and struck out wtiile he was being held It was then he assaulted the man who was assisting the constable, and tnis man was the complainant. Sergeant Tuck said that the accused later told the police he had travelled to the camping ground from Oamaru and had found his wife in a caravan in bed with the com-

“It is clear ttiere was a marked degree of provocation for the assault,” said Sergeant Tuck. Asked if he had anything to say. B.shop said he "just went mad and now regretted it” FINED FOR ASSAULT A fine of £l5. in default 17 days' imprisonment, was imposed on Donald Alexander McLean McGavin, aged 42. a barman, when he pleaded guilty to a charge of assault on April 4. He was not represented by counsel. Sergeant Tuck said that police went to the accused's home at 37 Saxon street and found the accused and his de facto wife affected by liquor. The couple had had an argument, and the accused alleged the woman was going to attack him with a carving knife and a steel she had taken from a drawer. The accused admitted striking the woman and also kicking her. The woman was bleeding freely from the left ear. McGavin had previous convictions, Sergeant Tuck said REMANDED On a charge of breaking and entering premises at 13 Churchill street, with intent to commit a crime on February 26, Peter Terei. aged 22, was remanded on bail until April 13. Charged with the theft of a transistor radio, valued at £23 10s. on April 2 Reginald Noel Ronald Kennedy, aged 17. was remanded on bail until April 13. Lawrence William Ayres was remanded in custody until April 13 on a charge of burglary at Christchurch on March 6.

LICENCE CANCELLED AND FINED £25 Stopped for the third time in three weeks for having no driver’s licence and no warrant of fitness for his motorcycle. John Matthew Duke, aged 21, a workman, told Constable N. F Pipe that his motor-cycle w as good as the constable’s machine. Constable Pipe said in evidence that the only part of the defendant’s motor-cycle that appeared to be bolted in place was the engine. “It was held together by pieces of wire, and the back brake was operated by pulling a wire.” he said. On charges of having no dr. ‘s licence and no warrant of fitness on March 9, Duke was fined £2 on each; on s: xiilar charges on March 21 he was fined £3 on each; and for the same offences on March 27 he was fined £5 on each.

On a further charge of operating a motor-cycle without lights on March 9, Duke was fined £5. and his driver’s licence was cancelled for 12 months Duke did not appear, and was not represented by counsel LOSS OF LICENCE The excuse that Colin Donald Boyd MacKenzie. aged 17, a workman, gave the police for knocking two girls off their bicycle with his motor-cycle in Strowan road on March 7 was that a moth or a fly must have got in his eye just before the accident, said Sergeant B D. Read. The accident was not reported to the police until 35 hours after it occurred. On a charge of driving without due care and attention. MacKenzie was fined £5 and his diver’s licence was cancelled for three months. For failing to report an accident within 24 hours he was ordered to pay costs, and for driving a class of vehicle not on his licence he was fined £3

MacKenzie pleaded guilty by letter to all charges. OTHER TRAFFIC CASES

On other traffic charges brought by the police, convictions were entered and fines imposed as follows: Failing to give way: Winifred Mary Blackaby. £7; Robert Frederick Northover, £5; Emily Shearman. £5; Wayne Raymond Wright, £3 (no warrant of fitness. £l, failing to stop at stop sign, £3): Henry Elborn Setter, £5; Paul Robert Hume Regnault, £5.

No warrant of fitness: Sydney James Collins, £4; Clement Leonard Morrison. £3: Abraham van Sliedrecht. £2 (wrong class of driver’s licence, £3); John Alfred Sullivan. £3: Allen Ernest Brook Van. £1 (no lights on motor-scooter. £3).

Driving without due care and attention • Phyllis Dorothy Fussell, £5; Trevor John McCauehan £l5; Brian Reginald Hazeldine, £5; Lester Frank Sugden. £7 10s. Supplying false information: Denys Leslie Atiken, £3 (no front light on motor-cycle. £2, no rear red light, costs). Stopping motor truck without reasonable consideration for other road users: Jan Veyenhoek. costs only (failing to produce drivers licence. £1).

< Before Mr A- P. Blair, S.M.) DANGEROUS DRIVING Rex Winston Robinson, a labourer, was convicted and fined £l5. and his driver’s licence was cancelled for 18 months, on a charge of dangerous driving on January 28. Robinson pleaded guilty through Mr M. J. Glue. Traffic Officer J. Clarke said he checked Robinson travelling between Belfast and Cputts Island at speeds up to 65 miles an hour Robinson turned into another road and almost turned the car over. When he stopped he refused to unlock the car and talk to the traffic officer. Mr Glue said that Robinson had been in a considerable amount of trouble W’ith the traffic officers. Robinson had since sold his car. OTHER TRAFFIC CASES In other traffic cases brought by the Transport Department, convictions were entered and fines imposed as follows: Exceeding 30 miles an hour: Richard Raymond Donaldson. £3; Trevor Jan Everest. £6; Kenenth Ross Glennie. £3; Dudley George Hughes, £3; Norman Stanley Nish, £3; Robert Andrew Petheram, £3; Malcolm David Rooks. £3 (not wearing safetv helmet. £2); Geoffrey Malcolm Tavendale, £6; Yerba Buna Chennells, £4; Derek Graeme Daniell, £3; Stanley John Ebdon, £4: Allan George Edward Fredrickson, £3; Morris James Graham, £5; Christopher Robert Howell, £5 (no driver s licence, £3; no safety helmet. £2); William James King. £2; William Neal Maynard. £6 (no warrant of fitness. £2>; Barry Walter Pearce. £7; George Alexander Rangi, £3; Anthony John Saunders. £3; Robert Carmichael Sinclair, £3; Milton Wong. £4; Williams James Adams. £5; Percival Delamere £3: Vivian Theonore Lloyd. £3: Harold Leonard Mauger, £3; David W T alter Neilson, £5: Betty Phillips, £4: Selwyn Brian Schroeder. £5; Neville Oakley Turner. £4. Failing to yield right of w’ay at pedestrian crossing: Cedric Arthur Sydney Hearn. £5; William Osborne, £5: Mary Bins Browne. £5; William Dutton £5: Morris Ivan Legge. £5; Robert Parsons Reid, £5; lan William Thomas. £5; John Gilbert Wright. £5; Laurence Adwin Donald, £3.

Exceeding 30 miles an hour without wearing safety helmet: Desmond Edward Trevor Ryhnbart. £2; Kenneth Edward Agnew. £2.

Failing to stop at stop sign: Colin William Hoskins. £1: David Reginald Linton. £2; Trevor Kenneth Smith. £3: Robert Stewart. £3: Archibald Gilkison Nelson. £4. Exceeding 30 miles an hour when rider and passenger not wearing safety helmets: William Ivor Evans. £3 (failing to carry driver’s licence, 10s); Graham Allan Outline £3.

Failing to keep to the left: Graham David Butler. £5; Robert Watson Lowther, £l2 (no driver’s licence £3).

Exceeding 40 miles an hour while restricted to L plates: Alexander McLean Bennett. £3 (exceeding 50 miles an hour, £1).

Failing to stop at lights: Robert Charles Swadel, £6: Paul Bigham. £6; Edward Peter Fraser £2.

Failing to give way to right John Godfrey Foster. £6.

Carrying "pillion passenger

while restricted: John Francis Bergman, £2; Brent Pierce Couch. £2.

Unregistered vehicle: Transport (North Canterbury). Ltd., £5.

Exceeding axle weight on classified road: J. Deyell and Company, Ltd., £3. Exceeding heavy traffic licence: Ron Taggart, £3. Double parked: Reginald Lance Diamond, £3.

Wrong class of driver's licence: Brian Henry Johnson. £2. Overtaking on wrong side: Victor Norton Wilson, £5. (Before Mr N. M. Izard, S.M.)

FINED £3 James Gibb Hutchison was fined £3 on a charge of exceeding 30 miles an hour. A plea of guilty was entered, and he was represented by Mr P. G. S. Penlington. CHARGES DISMISSED

A charge of failing to yield the right of way at a pedestrian crossing on January 17, against Kenneth William Busch, was dismissed. He pleaded not guilty. A charge of exceeding 30 miles an hour. against Reginald Yaxley, was dismissed. He pleaded not guilty, and was represented by Mr B. J. Drake.