MAGISTRATE'S COURT 18 months gaol for burglary offences

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33454, 8 February 1974, Page 11

MAGISTRATE'S COURT 18 months gaol for burglary offences

> j Kere Waihape. aged 43. an I unemployed driver (Mr G. M. 1 IBrodie), was sentenced to 18 r ‘months imprisonment on two 5 Icharges of burglary, involving $2128 worth of goods and (cash, when he appeared before Mr K. H, J. Headifen, S.M., in the Magistrate’s ‘Court yesterday. ■ The Magistrate said he Mad given the case careful consideration, as it was a difficult one. The defendant had I spent 15 years in prison. j Mr Brodie said the defendant had attempted to recover ■ the balance of the stolen property, but was unable to Ido so. '! He said the defendant’s i offending followed a cycle. '■(The defendant found it easier Ito cope with life inside priIson than outside. C The offences occurred in . January, and the goods taken ■ jwere stereophonic record Iplayers, television sets and long-playing records. Wai- ' hape earlier pleaded guilty ;. Ito both charges. ’■! TOOK MOTOR-CYCLES Anthony William Humm, aged [lB. unemployed, was released on probation for 18 months and disqualified for six months, when he appeared for sentence on three charges of unlawfully taking a motor-cycle. i I Humm, who had previously ■ pleaded guilty, said he had got 'into the wrong group; he would 1.1 not have committed the offences on his own. EXC ESSI V E A LCO H 01. Murray Kenneth Wilson, aged v 24. roofer (Mr T. M. Abbott', twas released on probation for 18 > i months and disqualified for 18 ( months when he appeared for ■•'sentence on a charge of driving ’ [with an excessive blood alcohol ’ concentration (205mgi V* The Magistrate said lie was .taking an unusual course of I ;action in the case. Wilson was » ordered, as terms of his proba- ’• tion, to continue undergoing > treatment for alcoholism. i- Mr W. F. Brown. S M.} . PASSED FALSE CHEQUES A 30-year-old unemployed ‘ American citizen who passed false travellers cheques in Grey i mouth after he had stolen them | from a woman’s handbag pleaded ’’(guilty to seven charges of false ; pretence and one charge of theft. John Peter Grant was convicted

ijon all charges and remanded in .custody to February 15 toi a , ; probation report and senb ne. V Sergeant C. Walsh said all the j’cheques were passed within an .hour in various Grey mouth j i shops. When apprehended Gnmt at - first denied the oiicnc. but later admitted he had stolen t!iv ’ handbag from an unlocked hotel 5 room and taken the cheque book [from it. . All the property had been re--covered in perfect condition. • Sergeant Walsh said, .1 Counsel Mr K N Hampton) i jlsaid Grant had been in New Zea J 'land onk six weeks and had just i finished work on a drilling rig - on the West Coast. He had inr tended to travel to Auckland to ‘ find employment, but ran short' 1 of money )| HAD KNIFE A 17-year-old girl who lunged ■at a police officer with a knift 5 during a disturbance in Cathedral ’ .(Square on January 11 was con-: r victed and remanded on bail to • February 14 for sentence. * Carol Evelyn Bromlev, aged 17. j a processor (Mr A. C. Hughes »[Johnson). pleaded guilty to j [charges of carrying an offensive 1 [weapon and assaulting a con 1 [stable. She pleaded not guilty to; fa charge of wilful di [amounting to $23.50 to two rubibish containers on the same date. • H Sergeant Walsh said the police! (were called to a disturbance in i Cathedral Square The defend-1 iant was asked to accompanv the I I [police to the station. While* n being escorted to a car she ran. ;-'away, and when recaptured.; i h’nged at the constable with a, II sheath knife with a five-inch - ’blade. She said the kn fc was given I c [to her when the police arrived. V CAR TAKEN. DAMAGED 1 On a charge of unlawfully tak , s ing a car worth $l6OO on Decern ; er 6. Grant George Ball, aged 19 an apprentice panel heater, was i i convicted and remanded on bail , ,to Februarv 15 for sentence. , H Peter Colin MacKenzie. aged 8 20 an apprentice panel beater r ('Mr D .1 Mac Kay, for both,, g pleaded guilty to a charge of d (Unlawfully getling into the "t ind was remanded on bail to the , sjsame date for sentence. I Sergeant Walsh told the Court s that the car involved was rolled | i- lover and extensively damaged g(lt also had three holes made by [shot-gun blasts in the panel .11 work. I Property worth more than 5160 i was taken from the car and '! otl’.er person- were to he chaeged !?i|n respect of this. n MOTOR-CYCLE THEFTS d Gregory John Phillip Atkine son. aged 17 a timber worker >f ((Mr" I) 51. Palmeri pleaded guilty to charges of stealing a d motor-cycle worth Slos', on September 10. stealing a motor-' cvcle worth $lBOO on September! 15 and receiving -tolen motor-1 (cvcle parts worth $43 on Decern-! her 1 knowing they had been | 'dishonestly obtained. Atkinson was convicted and remanded on bail to lehruarv 14 lor sentence FALSE FIRE CALL II A 49-year-old housewife pleaded . guilty to a charge of wilfully making a false alarm call to the a Christchurch Metropolitan lire e Brigade. V Olive Kathleen Jury was eonv I victed and remanded on hall D! to February 15 for a probation LI report and sentence ri ‘ Sergeant Walsh said Jury gave . ‘the alarm at 11.07 on February 6. She told the brigade to come u I quickly because-there was a large l,\fxre at 54 Skipton Street —Jury s Town address. Two units and nine men were 0 sent and found a small, controls. led fire in a fireplace. When d interviewed by the police, the defendant was intoxicated and denied giving the alarm. Rest!I- tution of $6O was sought bv the I police. n I ASSAULT CHARGE e Uaita Fui, aged 25. a factory >. worker <Mr I. M. O’Reilly -, was 1 convicted on his plea of guilty s i!and fined 'lO on a charg, of u assaulting Peter Morris Lowe on December 6. Sergeant Walsh said the cle,fendant had gone to a hamburger £ * bar that evening He inquired 1- from the proprietor wl.v the p price of chicken lad risen The (Complainant, another customer, i made tome remarks, and then ■e called the defendant “a dirty |v black bastard.” The defendant gripped him by 10 I the collar and flung him to the n (ground The complainant auf fered a awollen lip.

Mr O ReiK- said the complain ant baited the defendant, and was asked several times to keep out c-f the discussion THEFT Tony Stephen Edgeworth, ag»<! 18. unemployed cMi- li J Murifttwa. c onvicted and remanded or bail to I'ebruat, 14 for sentence iwhen lie pleaded guilty to s I charge of stealing a crash hoi met worth $ll on Dec-cinber 19 THEFT FROM POOL Dairy I Edward Hawker, age<l (18. unemployed CMr MacKac pleaded guilty to a charge cl stealing a watch and c.lothlnii worth s>4 75 from the Sockbu-r Swimming Poo) on October 22 He was convicted and remander on hail to Febniarv 15 for »eu tc nee. OFFENCE WITH GIRL Veil Wayne Watts, aged 17 c ' rubber worker <Mr Hampton ‘ pleaded guilty to a charge o' having unlawful sexual inter (cou.se with a 15-year-old girl or 'December 11. He y,as convicted and remande d on bail to Febni i ary 15 for sentence. ((Before Mr F. s J. < nitchle;. S.M.I DROVE DANGEROUSLY I Murray John Grant, aged 19 !a bank clerk (Mr O'Reillyc. vat fined a total of $25(1 and dis qualified from driving for If j months from February 22 wher (he was sentenced on charges ol 'dangerous driving and drivlnj yvlth an excessive blood alcoho' concentration (271mg> on Decern her 9 ' Grant had pieviouslv pleaded (guilt, to both charges DAMAGE TO TURF Robert Stuart Quint, aged 2" jan auto-electriclan (Mr S P IGraham), was placed on proba ition for one year and dlsquali I'le d from driving for one yeai (when he was sentenced on fou' charges of causing damage t< ‘golf course and park turf b- ! broadsidfng a car on graasec ‘areas on July 20 As special conditions of proba .tion he was ordered to perforn 16 Saturdays of community wor) ' and to pay’ compensation of $145 | (Before Mr F G Paterson, S.M • RAIDED ’ HOUSE Two men who ‘'raided'' a house jin Colombo Street to settle '■ i difference of opinion with on, of its occupants were charge! with offences arising from th, incident. John Patrick O'Leary, aged 19 a factory worker, pleaded guilt; to theft of a suede coat valuer at S'jO The other man. whosi I name was suppressed <Mr Z Maclasrek . pleaded guilty to be ing found without lawful excus. 'lon the premises in circumstance that did not disclose the com 'mission of any other offence. I Thev were convicted and re imanded on ball to February 1 'for sentence The Magistral, ordered that both men hr physic ally examined for periodic d» t ention. Detective Sergeant T O. Tore I said that on December 1 the twi defendants, with others, wen i to a Colombo Street house afte ' a party on the banks of thi Waimakariri River They arrived a', the bout 1 about 11.30 p.m and after r< ‘ reiving no replv kicked the doo down, searched the flat, and re ! ‘ moved stereo equinment an. '.other grxids worth $1025. Damage of $22.3 was caused li ’■the incident OTearv took th ’ '.’cket and later threw it In ! river, Sergeant Tozer said (Before s*r P. L. Molineaux, i S.M.» DANGEROUS SPEED J A man who rode a m.otm ; cvcle with a pillion passenger a ' 80 miles an hour appeared on I charge of driving at a dangerou speed John William Warwood. j. pane! beater, pleaded not guilt s to the charge v Traffic Officer L. Pester sal f that at 1130 nm. on July 31 a he followed, at M m.p.h , a ci .and a motor-cycle which str >. speeding side by side down B!*t r helm Road For four-tenths of 1 mile the vehicles were no mor e than 7ft apart e Warwood admitted that he ha -. been speedin- but not as fast i n alleged A car had cut him oi yj he said, and h« had tried 1 •catch It up in order to recoi v its number or talk to the drive iei He was convicted and fin 1 LislM and disqualified for nn months.