Youth With Knife Stopped By Brick
(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, April 29. A piece of brick thrown by a police ser- < geant felled a 17-year-old youth who had repeatedly lunged at the sergeant and a constable with a six-inch knife.
Detective Senior-Sergeant R. C. Anderson told the Magistrate’s Court at Auckland today how the two police officers approached, reasoned, chased and then captured the youth. The accused, Phillip Raymond O’Regan, a wool scourer, pleaded guilty to charges of resisting and assaulting Constable Harding Russell Bonnar.
O’Regan also pleaded guilty to a charge of being in possession of beer intended for consumption, accused not being 21. He pleaded not guilty to charges of assault and carrying an offensive weapon, a bicycle chain, in a public place. On a charge of unlawful sexual intercourse with a girl aged 15, O’Regan, represented by L. J. Vercoe, elected trial by jury.
He was convicated on the resisting and assault charges and remanded in custody until next Thursday for sentence. The other charges were adjourned until the same date.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30738, 30 April 1965, Page 3
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