PRISON RIOT

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30839, 26 August 1965, Page 6

PRISON RIOT

22 Charged At Paparua

Twenty • two prisoners charged with offences relating to the riot at Paparua Prison on July 25 appeared at a special sitting of the Magistrate’s Court before Mr E. S. J. Crutchley, S.M., at the prison yesterday afternoon. No pleas were taken, and the prisoners were remanded by consent to September 28 for the taking of depositions. Each prisoner was jointly charged with the 21 others that, being riotously and tumultuously assembled together to the disturbance of the public peace, he did unlawfully and with force damage Paparua Prison and equipment used therein. In addition, 12 of the prisoners were jointly or individually charged with assaulting prison officers on the same date.

The prisoners, in additional charges being given in parenthesis,, were:—Owen Francis McCauley (two joint charges of assault), Noel Edward de Malmanche (one joint charge of assault), Maxwell Alexander McMeeking (one joint charge and one individual charge of assault), George Fisco (two joint charges and one individual charge of assault), Norman Leslie Ayres (two joint charges and one individual charge of assault), Leon William Watene (three joint charges and one individual charge of assault), Michael Edward Dockery (one individual charge of assault), George John Bryenton (one joint charge of assault); Mervyn Anthony Rich (one individual charge of assault); Joseph Edward Thompson (one individual charge of assault); Ernest James Robb (one joint charge and one individual charge of assault), John Lawrence King (one individual charge of assault), Kenny Karena Kaipo, John King, Harry Edmunds, Robert John Moore, Wana Steve Nepia, Allan Raumati, Gordon Frederick HSnga, Brian Allan Tetley, William Walter Holster, end Te Awamarapi Tuhura.