Assailant Beat Girls Home

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30879, 12 October 1965, Page 3

Assailant Beat Girls Home

(N.Z. Press Association) DUNEDIN, Oct. 11. Two girls who had been thrown to the ground and hit with their own handbags escaped and drove home by taxi, only to find their assailant waiting there to continue assaulting them, Senior Sergeant R. M. Schwass said in the Dunedin Magistrate’s Court today.

Dennis Patrick Moir, aged 24, a glass blower, appeared on two charges of assaulting a female and one of using obscene language. Moir pleaded guilty to all charges and was remanded by Mr J. D. Murray, S.M., to Friday for a probation report and sentence. Bail was allowed at £lOO, with one surety of £lOO. Senior Sergeant Schwass said the two girls were walking along Princes street at 4 a.m. on Saturday when a car drew up alongside tl m and Moir and two other men got out. Moir threw one of the girls to the ground ard hit her several times with her bag before turning to the other whom he also threw on the pavement. Throughout he used obscene language. The girls picked themselves up and went home by taxi, only to find Moir and one of his companions waiting for them. Asking his friend how

the girls would look witl cigarette scars on their faces he began waving a lightei cigarette. One girl called th police. Moir was extremely unc< operative when interviewed said Senior Sergeant Schwass He refused to supply hi

th name or address, and denied is, the assaults. ;d From the dock Moir said le he had been good friends with the two girls. He asked for :o- legal aid, adding that as a d, married man with two young >s. children he was in financial iis difficulties.