VERDICT OF GUILTY

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31124, 29 July 1966, Page 6

VERDICT OF GUILTY

Remanded For Sentence The accused, when told to get into a police patrol car after having been arrested for unlawfully taking a motorcycle, had first moved toward the police ear and then ’ turned and made off, pursued by the arresting officer, the (Crown Prosecutor (Mr C. M. I Roper) told a jury of one woman and 11 merT in the ! Supreme Court yesterday. ’ Mura Temapu, aged 25, a welder (Mr L. M. O’Reilly), (pleaded not guilty to charges (that on March 24 he unlaw- ) fully took from Bewdley ! street a motor-cycle belonging to Kenneth Ross Lavender, and that on March 25 in Kerrs road he escaped from the lawful custody of Detective Con- [ stable Roger Kelso. ! He was found guilty on ’ both charges and was re- ! manded in custody for sent- ; ence on August 5. Mr Justice Macarthur was on the Bench. Kenneth Ross Lavender said he had left his motorcycle outside 36 Bewdley street about 9.15 p.m. on March 24. When he returned about 10 p.m. the motor-cycle ’was missing.

Constable Leonard James Paterson said that about 1.30 a.m. on March 25 while patrolling with Defective Constable Kelso in Kerrs road they had stopped and spoken to the accused who was sitting on the motor-cycle. The accused was arrested but made off. On June 8 at the Central Police Station he had recognised the accused as the person who had been arrested for the .unlawful taking of a motor-cycle on March 25. Mr O’Reilly said the accused’s defence was quite simple. He said it was not he who was on the motorcycle, so the whole case turned on Identification.