AGISTRATE'S COURT Youth admits part in 10 burglaries

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33035, 30 September 1972, Page 19

AGISTRATE'S COURT Youth admits part in 10 burglaries

ievtn Maurice Day, aged a farmhand (Mr M. J. ie >. pleaded guilty in the gistrate’s Court yesterday 10 charges of burglary 1 was remanded in custody October 6 for sentence by K- H. J. Headifen, S.M. he offences were comted between August 12! 1 September 9 at the premof the Christchurch -fit Club (twice), the Wai-

mak Gorge Golf Club (twice) Milan Gugich Hairdressei and Tobacconist, Sea Freight ways, Ltd (twice), the Sum ner Squash and Tennis Club and the Surfboard Tearooms (twice). Sergeant A. N. Waugh saic that .goods, including liquoi and cigarettes, worth more than $lOOO were taken Day and another person whc had yet to be dealt with b> the Court. A lot of vandab ism had been committed in some of the premises, but the cost of restitution had nol yet been calculated. On one occasion. 13 plate-glass win dows had been smashed. Some of the stolen pro perty was recovered frorr Day’s room when he was questioned by the police or September 22. FINES FOR ASSAULT “Anything relating to the use • of bottles means a deterren sentence as far as I am con : cerned,” the Magistrate saic when sentencing Garry George Shaw, aged 18, a rubber worker on a charge of assaulting Leslie Howard Jones on September 21 Shaw was fined $l5O and pui on probation for 18 months. Aj special conditions of probation he was ordered to take out : prohibition order and to live anc work where directed by the pro ■ bation officer. The Magistrate said there was ’very little that could be said foi Shaw. According to the probatioi officer’s report, however, he hac shown some signs of improve ment recently. A second offender involved ir the incident. Douglas Ralph Me : Connell aged 18. a rubbei worker, was fined $75. He is al ■ ready on probation for two years The Magistrate said he con sidered that McConnell had takei a minor part in the offence. Mr S. R. Mating for McConnell said he drank ton much for j youth of his age and was easil? led. He had been unsettled anc had been mixing with undesirabh persons. Both defendants had pre viously pleaded guilty, at whicl time Sergeant R. I. Harlick toll the Court that McConnell ha spat at the complainant anc ; Shaw had attempted to hit bin with a beer bottle. EXCESSIVE ALCOHOL On a charge of driving oi . Blighs Road, Papanui. on Augus 4 with an excessive blood-alcoho concentration <206 milligrams) Robert William Mitchell, aged 29 ! a glazier, who pleaded guilty, wai ; convicted and fined $175 and dis : qualified from driving for 1? months. ESCAPERS REMANDED George Henare, aged 22. Colir Reihana, aged 25. and Tripol Hohua. aged 30. were remandec in custody to October 6 whei they appeared on a charge oi escaping from Paparua Prison or September 22. No plea wai entered. George Ngaronoa Raharaha aged 20. a foundry worker (Mi M. G. I- Loughnan), was re

manded on bail to the same date on a charge of assisting the escapers to avoid arrest. No plea was entered. CHARGE OF THEFT i Larry Edward Ockwell. aged 117, unemployed, was convicted ' and remanded on bail to October 6 for sentence when he pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing a cassette tape-recorder. Senior-Sergeant F. G. Mulcare said that the complainant contacted the police at 10.45 am. on September 28 after his cassette went missing from his car parked in Cathedral Square. When questioned, Ockwell had said he had taken it because the complainant had assaulted his brother. DANGEROUS DRIVING Keaven Wayne Barker, aged 17, an apprentice carpenter, was convicted and fined $5O and disqualified for three months when ihe pleaded guilty to a charge ;of dangerous driving. DRIVING CAUSED INJURIES Ronald Walker, aged 29, an engineer (Mr B. D. Kinley), was : convicted and fined $5O and disqualified for six months after pleading guilty to a charge of careless driving causing injury to Robin John Beattie and Clive Ernest Beardsley. DISCHARGED Lance Reon Smith, aged 17. a painter (Mr W. D. Moultrie), was convicted and discharged without penalty when he pleaded not guilty to a charge of resisting Constable D. K. Anderson on August 25. (Before Mr H. J. Evans, S.M.) DRIVING CHARGES Leo Blackburn Carr, aged 58, an orderly (Mr P. G. Benseman). pleaded guilty to charges of careless driving, failing to stop after an accident, driving outside the terms of a partial exemption from disqualification, and refusing to permit a blood sample to be taken. He was convicted and remanded on bail to October 9 for sentence. Senior Traffic Officer J. McMorran said that Carr's vehicle .had hit a parked car driving it on to the footpath, and then : drove away erratically. When questioned. Carr had refused a breath test, and had been arrested after refusing to give la blood specimen. The defendant (was not working at the time of the accident. He had been disqualified for two years in December last but was granted a limited licence for his work. (Before Mr W. F. Brown. S.M.) CHARGES OF ASSAULT Kenneth Raymond Edw’ard Hunwick, aged 19. a factory worker (Mr K. N. Hampton), was convicted and fined $5O on each of two charges of assault. Mr Hampton said that Hunwick admitted putting his arm round a girl on two occasions, but that he meant her no harm. He had not realised that it was an assault.

STOLE BICYCLE Timothy Bernard Lilley, aged ’ 21. a freezing worker (Mr N. A. Johnstone), was convicted of’ istealing a bicycle worth $l2. Lil-1 I ley, who had pleaded not guilty, was remanded on bail to OctoI ber 6 for sentence. Sergeant C. T. Dalzell said that the bicycle had been taken from outside the front door of the owner’s house on May 26. It had been recovered from the defendant's garage in stripped condition. Colleen Dawn Elizabeth Downs, a neighbour of the complainant, said in evidence that Lilley had told her that he had taken the cycle because he was too lazy to walk home. Lilley Ihad said that he planned to dump it. Mr Johnstone said that Lilley maintained he had never been on the complainant’s property, and had found the cycle on his own property leaning against his car. He had assumed that the bicycle had been left there by a friend, and had decided to look after it. Robin Tomlinson gave evidence ! that Lilley had asked him to trace the owner of the bicycle. Lilley said he had removed the wheels to make the bicycle easier to store in his garage.