MAGISTRATE’S COURT Youth Who Wrecked Converted Car Remanded For Sentence

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31318, 14 March 1967, Page 8

MAGISTRATE’S COURT Youth Who Wrecked Converted Car Remanded For Sentence

■ A car valued at £4OO reel- ■ ised only £l5O as a wreck, ■ after it had been taken from ■ Oxford terrace, driven south m at speeds of up to 95 miles ■ an hour, and crashed near ■ Tinwald, Mr K. H. J. Headi- ■ fen, SM., was told in the ■ Magistrate’s Court yesterday. ■ Charges were being heard ■ against Neville Jeffrey Bar- ■ low, aged 19, a boiler-maker’s ■ labourer, of unlawfully taking ■ the car, the property of T. ■ M. Dwyer, and of unlawfully ■ taking a car in Timaru, the ■ property of Donnette Grant, ■ on the same day, March 6. ■ Barlow and another person, ■ who has yet to be appro- ■ bended, threw away the tools, ■ papers and fittings of Dwyer’s ■ car at Hornby. When the car ■ rolled on to its side at Tin- ■ weld, the aid of a farmer was ■ enlisted to right it, but its ’ > Fas so damaged that ■ it bad to be abandoned. ■ The two men then hitch- ■ hiked to Timaru where they ■ took the second car which ■ they drove north. The car ■ crashed when a tyre blew out ■ on a railway crossing in Ash- ■ burton, and Barlow was ■ caught. The other man eeIgfc caped through the Ashburton ■ Cemetery. The car suffered ■ damage to the value of £7O ■ 19s 6d. ■ Barlow pleaded guilty to ■ both charges and was con- ■ victed and remanded in custody for a probation offi- ■ cer’s report and sentence. ■ DBOVE UNDER INFLUENCE jUI "Because a medical con- ■ dition may have contributed, ■ X am not sending you to ■ prison,” the Magistrate said ■ when he fined Russell Peter ■| Hampton £5O and disqualified ■ him from driving for three ■ years on a charge of driving ■ in Greenvale avenue on Feb- ■| ruary 25 while under the in- ■ fluence of drink or a drug. ■I Hampton, a storeman, aged ■ 25, pleaded guilty to the M charge. H CAR CONVERSION S Kenneth Kupu Hokai, Sged ■ 25, pleaded guilty to a charge ■ of unlawfully taking a car M from Addington on March A ■He was convicted and re- ■ manded in custody until Fri- ■ day for a probation officer’s ■ report and sentence. ■ "You’re likely to be in M prison for some time. You’d ■ better get used to it,” the ■ Magistrate said, refusing an ■ application for bail. ■ OUTSTAYED PERMIT ■ Jairam Ramdeo pleaded ■ guilty to a charge of remain* ■ ing in New Zealand beyond ■ the time allowed by his entry H permit between November 5, 1994, and February 5, -1997. i A diesel mechanic, aged 24, he was convicted and fined ■ £5O, and held in custody to ■ await deportation. ■ TRESPASSED ■a A man, aged 37, pleaded I guilty to a charge of wilfully trespassing in a St Albans flat on January 30. m Mr M. J. Glue, appeiaringfor

the defendant said that he had previously been engaged to the complainant for a long time, and that she was ending the relationship “by the timehonoured method of failing to keep appointments.” The man, whose name was suppressed, had in this case been invited into the flat by another man and tied to leave unless the other man did also. The defendant was fined £5. “SEVERE DISAPPROVAL" "Next time you’re being assaulted and in fear, please, don’t ring the police,” the Magistrate said to Colleen Bryce when she. declined to give evidence against her husband, Sinclair Clive Bryce. He dismissed "with severe disapproval” a charge of assault against Bryce, a rubber worker, aged 21 (Mr W. J. Kilroy). ASSISTED OFFENCE Paul Leslie Ceopet, aged 20, an assistant cook in the Kangltoto, pleaded guilty to a charge ot aiding Lilian Shepherd to commit an offence at Lyttelton on March 12. and was fined £3O. Shepherd, aged 2S, unemployed. pleaded guilty to charges ot being found without lawful excuse in the Bangltoto on March 11 and being idle and disorderly, having insufficient lawful means of support. She was remanded in custody until March 20 for a probation officer's report and sentence. FOUND DRUNK Edward Thomas Callaghan, aged 45, a fitter, pleaded guilty and was convicted of being found drunk in Cathedral square on March 11. having two previous convictions for drunkenness in the last six months. Ho was fined £3, in default four days*. Imprisonment. NO BECOLLECnON A plea of not guilty wgs entered to a charge ot Careless use ot a motor vehicle, because the defendant, George Bobert Baker, claimed to have no recollection of the incident from which the charge arose. His motor-cycle had collided with a van driven by Bobert Hugh Sinclair oh the Main road. Bedcliffs, on December U. Baker was convicted and fined U ‘ THEBE CHARGES Alan Edward Holland, aged IS, a student, pleaded vi' to charges of driving a motor»*si licence and having no warrant of fitness, and not, guilty of using a motor-cycle without an affixed licence. He was convicted on all three charges, and fined £3 on the first charge and £1 on each of the other two. BEMANDED Ant elderly woman, whose name was suppressed, was remanded on ball to April S for the taking of depositions, when she appeared on a charge that on February 15 she was a party to the death of a man, in that she entered into a suicide pact, with him. tn pursuance of which he killed himself. Mr J. W. Dalmer appeared for the accused. ASSAULT Angus Baymond White (Mr A. F. C. Tipping) pleaded guilty to a charge of assaulting Jean S. White on March 11, and was fined £!#. TRAFFIC CONVICTIONS In undefended traffic prosecutions brought by the police, convictions were entered and fines imposed as follows (Court costa £1 10s extra):— Opening a car door so as to be likely to cause Injury: Catherine Bernstein, £4. Fatting to rive way to the

right: David Norman Shand Caddie, £5. Unable to stop in clear roadway ahead: Robert Edmond Hart, £5. Failed to stop: Henry Meredith Sunderland, £». Failed to give name and address: Alfred Rlekard Mayne, £IS. (Before Mr E. S. J. Crutehley, S.M.) TWO YEARS’ GAOL Two years’ imprisonment was imposed on Peter Lloyd Machirua, aged 22, unemployed (Mr L. M. O’Reilly), when be appeared for sentence on a charge of attempted theft of £4ll ss, the property of Leonard Bloggs, on March 4. He pleaded guilty to the charge on March Yesterday he pleaded not guilty to a charge. ot ng a rogue and a vagabond in that being a reputed thief he frequented a public place, Worcoster street, with felonious Intent on March 4. He was convicted and discharged. The Magistrate said Machirua had a good inteWgonco but he was disposed not to use It. Ho had been sentenced to Borstal for Ms part in a -smash and grab raid and had been released last November. ONE WEEK'S GAOL Appearing for sentence on a charge of committing a breach of probation on December t, Moana To Whata, aged 24, a workman, was sentenced to one week's Imprisonment. The Magistrate said it was To Whata’s second breach ot probation wßhin a few months. CHARGES DENIED "I think you have been just a Mt of a nuisance over » The sensible thing to do would have been to do what you were told,*' said the Magietrate when convicting Alexander Barclay, aged 30, a workman, on charges of rtl< a constable on March 4 and wUfully damaging a police uniform on the same date. Barclay (Mr P. J. Thompson) was fined £5 on each charge and ordered to make restitution of £2. He pleaded not guMty to both charges. ‘ ’ (Before Mr E. A. Leo, AM.) MX CHARGES A youth who appeared tor istrate that he had tailed to re* had continued to defy Boyce Terry Young, aged ». been dangerous. He wae convicted and discharged for permitting an unlMceneed person to use his car. * •

Young, who was represented by Mr b. A. Hunt, was given another Borstal sentence for breaking and entering the Wigram Food Bar, 214 Main South road, on March 4 with intent to commit a erime, and for similar offences the same day at the premises of the South Brighton Fish Supply, 57 Estuary road, and Bealaon's M Bar, S 3 Estuary road. For the two driving offences. Young was given two cumulative periods of disqualification, each of one year and a half. "Your employment record is deplorable.*' said the Magistrate. "You have shown complete in both In employment and outside. The probation report recommends Borstal, and I think It would be admirable. Two other youths, : ley John Woodhead, aged 20, a workman, and Warren Nathan Williams aged 18, a concrete worker, were jointly charged with Young on the three burg- » saded guilty and were

convicted and remanded until March 20 for sentence. Bail was refused. Sergeant A. D. Stevenson said that at 2.40 a.m. on March 0 the police were called to the scene of a burglary at 57 Estuary road. The sum of £3 in cash had been taken and entry had been gained by breaking a window. Other shops in the same block were checked, and it was found that a similar mothod at entry had been used to enter premises at 53 Estuary road. Three tine of drink valued at fie, SOO cigarettes valued at £5 3s, and some glasses were taken. The three were apprehended in a car at Now Brighton; and all admitted the offences. They also admitted having burgled the Wlgram Food Store, Main South road, the same day. The sum of 115 had been stolen from the cash rsgieter, and £l5 worth ot damage had been done to the shop. FOUR YEARS IN GAOL •lit is impossible for mo to find words to condemn you. No father could sink lower than you have.” the Mai told a man who wae appearing for sentence on four charges of Incest and four charges of indecent assault. "Hardship Is no excuse for sexual misconduct with children, and It is Mis to suggest that the children won’t be harmed. This strikes at the whole' sacred ideal of the family." The defendant was sentenced to a total of four years In gaol. The accused’s counsel, Mr B. G. Erber, said he bad had a most unhappy Mfe for the last six years. Ho wae an honest, hard-working person, and hie family still stood by him. UNLAWFULLY ON PREMISES After a long period in prison, a combination of liquor and ‘w!? O’lSefc submitted for Kimberley Coleman sultivan, aged 32. a chef, who appeared for sentence on three charges of being found unlawfully on premises, gyo simtiar charges were dissaM the Magistrate. He sen88S’JSBTfASS.?« •’ThwT'.ii M (Mt .HMD, ISAW'US'SXW but It was "an extremely S’T’a’S’tSCp 8 the mlfalo of the night.” saM IDLE AND DMOBDEBLY Isabella Sarah Hurst, aged U. a factory worker, was placed on probation for. a year, when she appeared for sentence tor being Idle and disorderly :In that she bad insufficient lawful means of support. "The life you art leading will cause you unhappiness untH the end of your days unless you mend your ways," the Magistrate told her. She was ordered to live and work as directed by the probafor sentence on a similar charge was David William Jones, aged 17. a factory hand. Jonas told ths Magistrate that he Intended to got a job in Christchurch. “I hope you’ve learned you can't go round the countryside as you've been doing.'.’ said the Magistrate, and he ordered Jones to come up for sentence within six months M required to do ,eo.