MAGISTRATE'S COURT Gaol term for having burglary instruments

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33514, 20 April 1974, Page 7

MAGISTRATE'S COURT Gaol term for having burglary instruments

] Robert Bruce Clark, aged, (22, a driver (Mr M. J. Glue), was sentenced to imprison[ment for six months when |he appeared for sentence in the Magistrate’s Court i yesterday on a charge of possessing burglary instruments by night. He had previously pleaded guilty. Mr P L. Molineaux, S.M., said Clark had served sentences of Borstal training and imprisonment. He could not now expect to remain in the community. Mr Glue later filed' a; Inotice of appeal against sen-i tence, and Clark was grant-! | ed bail pending the hearing i jof the appeal. REMAND LN CUSTODY i Brenton .John Brien, aged 24, ; a labourer (Mr A. C. HughesJohnson), was convicted and remanded in custody to June 13 for sentence when he pleaded guilty to three charges of burglary, four charges of wilful damage, and charges of theft, forgery, and false pretence involving a Social Welfare postal warrant for $39.50 Sergeant A. H. Huckstep said the burglary charges related to the premises of the Canterbury Bowling Club, Harrington’s Jewellers, Ltd, and the Richmond Fruit Market. Goods, including watches, liquor and cigarettes, worth more than .$2OOO. were stolen. The wilful damage offences related to shop windows broken with bottles on October 21. FALSE ACCOUNTING A former bank clerk who pleaded guilty to a charge of false accounting was convicted land remanded on bail to April j 29 for sentence He is Dennis | Gorden Clegg, aged 18, a spray I j painter. Sergeant Huckstep told the j I Court that Clegg falsified a Coml mercial Bank of Australia acj count by inserting a credit balance of $1820.03. The account I was In a fictitious name, and i deposits were made with other persons’ funds. ASSAULT ON BOY

Ronald James Cottle, aged 20. a process worker (Mr B. S. McLaughlin). was sentenced to periodic detention for three months and placed on probation for one year when he was sentenced oh a charge of assaulting Brent Smith«ran aged 14, on April 4. He had previously pleaded guilty. Mr McLaughlin said the complainant had used a particularly offensive word to Cottle before the assault. He offered this not as an excuse, but as an explanation for what happened.

The Court had earlier been told that Cot*!e struck the mmnlainant In th” face in a hamburger bar. The bov’s head had hit the concrete wall, and he suffered a 2in cut. THEFT CHARGE

A man, w’hose name was suppressed, was fined $lOO, and ordered to pay $l5 compensation on a charge of theft of 70 unframed pictures, valued at $261.70 in January.

He had earlier pleaded guilty to the charge. An order was made for the return of the recovered pictures The defendant (Mr A. W. Robinson), had kept cylinders containing the pictures when they were mistakenly delivered to his address. Mr Robinson said the defendant had been apathetic tn his attitude. He had opened the cylinders, and had given away some of the pictures, but he did not have a criminal intention to steal them. When apprehended by the police he was co-operative, and recovered the pictures he had given away. He offered to pay compensation for pictures damaged.

BURGLARY CHARGES | Reginald Anthony Jensen, | aged 17, unemployed, pleaded i guiltv to four charges of burg-: ling a house. He was convicted and remanded in custody to] April 26 for sentence. Sergeant Huckstep said Jensen] stole a gold watcli and $l4 in, the burglaries. PROBATION Terrence William Petersen, ; aged 19, unemployed, was sen-! fenced to imprisonment for two; months, placed on probation for; 12 months, and ordered to pay! restitution of S6O when he! appeared for sentence on a charge of burglary. The Court had previously] heard that the defendant stole; a tape recorder from a house; and sold it to a criminal; receiver The tape recorder, had not been recovered. THEFT OF SHOES Richard Rerehoe Ruki, aged; 21. a labourer, was sentenced: to imprisonment for three; months when he appeared on a; charge of stealing a pair of; shoes worth $5.99, the property I

lof Woolworths i.VZ.i. Ltd. on • April lo He had previously] ! pleaded guilty. CONVERTED TRUCK Eric Donald Bruce Kerr, aged 130. a drainlayer, pleaded guilty iio charges of unlawfully coni verting a truck, the property of ihis employer, on April 11. and ■driving while disqualified on the i same date He was convicted : and remanded on bail to April 129 for sentence. . EXCESSIVE ALCOHOL I Rosemary Maureen Brown, aged 22. a receptionist, pleaded ; guilty to a charge of driving ■with an excessive blood-alcohol i l concentration (131 mg. on (February 9. She was convicted i and fined $5O and disqualified (from driving for six months. (Before Mr W. F. Brown, S.M.) Graham Montague Garrick, aged 35, a driver Mr C. B. | Atkinson), was fined $2OO and ■ disqualified for 18 months on a : charge of driving with an excesisive blood-alcohol concentration i(274mg.) on February 28. He I pleaded not guilty.