Magistrate’s Court FOUR ARRESTED IN YOUTH CENTRE

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32975, 22 July 1972, Page 17

Magistrate’s Court FOUR ARRESTED IN YOUTH CENTRE

Four young men whom police found asleep in the I youth centre in Victoria] Street in the early morning l appeared before Mr E. S. J. Crutchley, S.M., ini the Magistrate’s Court yester-] day on charges of being unlawfully on enclosed premises and being idle and disorderly. Manuel John Habib, aged 21, James Henare Panapa, aged 18, Sidney Donald Tau I Tau, aged 17, and Charles. Matenga Barlow, aged 17,1 pleaded guilty. They were; represented by Mr J. L.l Woodward. The defendants were re-; manded to July 27 for sen-J tence. Tau Tau was already] in police custody, but the' other three were granted bail. Sergeant C. T. Dalzell said that the police found the defendants asleep in the build-'] ing at 7 a.m. on July 2. The] youth centre was normally; closed at 11 p.m., but several]

young people had stayed after; this time. Habib told the' police he knew they had no] right to be there but had i sneaked in out of the cold] because they had nowhere] else to go. Mr Woodward said that the i premises were used as a social centre for young people with nowhere to go. Some; had frequently stayed at the 1 centre overnight. Shortly before their discovery on July ; 2 the defendants read an article in which the supervisor (Mrs Katrine Brown) was quoted as saying that al-] though the centre was supposed to be closed after 111 p.m.. she sometimes turned a blind eye, knowing that many l of them had nowhere else to stay. The defendants took it] from that that they were] allowed to stay. There was no suggestion that the defendants broke in. The supervisor on the night

i did not lock the building, and ■ljust left them there. 11 “All the defendants are un- ; employed and we are left; . with the social problem of i what to do with them,” Mr . Woodward said. ■ (Before Mr F. G. Paterson, S.M.) | BURGLARY Rangi Reeves, aged 18, and [ Stanley Thom, aged 20, both rubbish collectors, were convicted ’ and remanded on bail to July I 28 for sentence when they ap- ; peared on charges of burglary. Sergeant A. N. Waugh said * that the defendants broke into * a house at 94 Orbell Street by tearing away the plastic over a rear window on July 5. They took $125, two guitars, and clothing worth a total of $458. The defendants were seen by the police on July 12 and $6l: worth of the stolen property was r'found in their house. Restitution i of $l9B was sought from each of them. PROBATION

Barry Richard Crooks, aged i 26, an unemployed assistant line- i man (Mr M. J. Glue), was placed: on probation for 18 months when ; he appeared for sentence on a charge of receiving from William John McGreevey, a bottle of vodka knowing it to have been stolen. He was ordered to live and work where directed by the probation officer and to abstain from liquor. Mr Glue said that although the vodka was part of the proceeds of a serious robbery, Crooks had had a great deal to drink and was “flaked out” in the car when the robbery took place. He had a serious problem with alcohol. Crooks had a poor work record and a substantial drink problem, said the Magistrate, but he would be given one more chance in the hope that he would show some response. TRESPASS Cecil Hugh Garvan, aged 27, a labourer, pleaded guilty to a charge of wilfully trespassing on the premises of the Christchurch Hospital and refusing to leave after being warned to do so. He was convicted and remanded in custody for a psychiatric report and sentence. Sergeant Waugh said that the defendant entered the hospital to see his wife, a patient there. He became aggressive towards the staff and when told to leave he refused. He had appeared on a similar charge on Thursday. Garvan told the police that as soon as he was released he would go back to the hospital again, said Sergeant Waugh. EXCESSIVE ALCOHOL Garry Leslie James Dodd, aged 21 a watersider (Mr M. J. Glue), was fined 575 and disqualified from driving for six months when he pleaded guilty to driving on May 20 with an excessive concentration of alcohol (134 mg. in his blood.