MAGISTRATE'S COURT Sentence increased for escape from custody

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33601, 1 August 1974, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S COURT Sentence increased for escape from custody

An additional period of two months imprisonment ’was imposed on Maunga Joe Hohepa, aged 18. a prison inmate (Mr A. J. Forbes), • when he was sentenced in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday ;on charges of escaping from custody, stealing a jacket, land resisting a constable, i Hohepa had previously] ipleaded guilty and been conivicted.

’ Mr W. F. Brown. S.M., ' said that he took into ac--1 count Hohepa’s age and that Jhe had some fear of other ’jinmates in prison. | The cumulative sentence was | imposed tn respect of the escaping charge. Concurrent sentences of one month's imprisonment were imposed on each of the other charges. Mr Forbes said that Hohepa had had no intention of injuring the constable when he picked up a hammer. He had swung it to defend himself against police dogs Detective Sergeant T. J. Gor-l man had said earlier that Hohepa escaped from the custody of a' ; prison officer while receiving treatment at Burwood Hospital for a hand injury. He had later stolen a jacket worth $19.95 from a shop in New Brighton. When found hiding in a shed, he had threatened the constable with a hammer. BURGLARY OF PHARMACY Two youths who pleaded guilty to charges of burgling a pharmacy on June 13 and having instruments for burglary in their possession on the same date were remanded on bail to i August 7 for sentence. i They are Russell James Pirie, aged 18, unemployed, and Glendan Clifford Carlyle, aged 18. a driver (Mr A. W. Robinson, for both), who were convicted on charges of burgling the Greenhaven Pharmacy, Burwood Road, and having oxy-acetylene cutting: equipment and other instruments I of burglary in their possession.' On the application of Mr Rob'inson, the Magistrate directed that both defendants undergo a psychiatric examination during the period of remand. Sergeant C. Walsh said that the defendants and another person had broken into the pharmacy about 1.30 a.m. Damage amounted to $22, but nothing had been stolen. FALSE PRETENCE

David John Hale, aged 33, a painter, who stole a cheque book and made out cheques to a value of $444 was convicted on eight charges and remanded on bail to August 8 for sentence. Hale (Mr S. P. Graham) pleaded guilty to a charge of theft, six of false p-etence, and one of obtaining credit by fraud. Sergeant Walsh said that on December 27 a cheque book had been taken from a house in Taumarunui. That evening, the defendant cashed one of thej cheques for $B5 at the Ohura' Cosmopolitan Club.

At Auckland, the defendant used a second cheque to buy goods worth $19.62 from George i; Court and Sons,’Ltd. j In the next three days the 1 defendant had cashed four more 'cheques at the White Heron

Lodge for a total of $340. of which $55 was for accommodai tion. FOUR CHARGES A man involved in a highspeed chase after committing a burglary on June 13 was sentenced to six months periodic detention, put on probation for ]lB months, and disqualified from driving for one year when he appeared for sentence. He is Anthony Coddington I Roberts, aged 19, an apprentice I electrician (Mr M. J. Glue), who ■ had pleaded guilty to charges of burglary, being in possession of instruments for burglary, driving while disqualified, and driving at a speed that might have been dangerous. "Drug addiction is your major problem and the reason for the burglary,” the Magistrate told Roberts. “But if you appear again, the fact that you offended to get] drugs will not be taken into account,” he said. THEFT OF CAR Vaughan Stuart Thomas, aged 22, a machine operator (Mr M. J. Glue), pleaded guilty to charges of stealing a car and obtaining $3O by a false pretence :on June 13. He was convicted ' and remanded on bail to Aug- ! ust 7 for sentence. Sergeant Walsh said that Thomas had bought the car for $562 under a hire-purchase agreement. He had sold the car body for $3O, yhUe $142 was still owing on it, to Don Hague Motors, Ltd. THEFT OF LIQUOR On- a charge of stealing six cartons of rum worth $243, Albert Nowa Waerea, aged 24, a truck driver (Mr D. H. Stringer), was sentenced to six months periodic detention, having previously pleaded guilty. The Court had earlier heard that Waerea had taken tlie cartons from a consignment being carried on his truck for Fletcher Humphreys and Company, Ltd. JOINT OFFENDERS I Paul Harper, aged 2U, a truck driver, who had previously pleaded guilty to a charge of burglary, was put on two years probation, ordered to pay $5O restitution, and ordered to do 250 hours of community work.

On a similar charge. Timothy Shane Nolan, aged 20, a process worker, who also pleaded guilty, was fined $2OO and ordered to pay $5O compensation. As a special condition, Nolan was ordered to pay the fine within 12 weeks, and was put under the supervision of a probation officer for that period. .The Court had earlier been told that Harper and Nolan had burgled the premises of Amalgamated Batteries Ltd. on July 15. Property worth $45 had been taken. Damage to doors amounted to $lOO. CREDIT BY FRAUD On a charge of obtaining credit of $25,40 for hotel board and lodging by fraud, Mervyn John Harkness, aged 28. unemployed (Mr J. G. Matthews), was convicted and fined $2O and ordered to pay full compensation. having pleaded guilty. Sergeant Walsh said that Harkness had booked into the executive suite of the Russley Hotel after representing that he was a representative of a confectionery company. He had said that his account was to be sent to the company.

EXCESSIVE ALCOHOL Brian Wulfe Flannighan, aged 43, a sickness beneficiary, pleaded guilty to a charge of driving with an excessive bioodI alcohol concentration i2s2mg) on June 8. He was convicted ana pined 5175 and disqualified from j driving for 18 months. : ißefore Mr E. S. .1. Crutchley, S.M.) FOUR CHARGES Raymond Leslie Donald Spain, i aged 17, a boat-builder, was fined | a total of $llO, and disqualified I from driving for one year, when 'sentenced on charges of refusing a traffic officer s request for a blood sample, failing to accompany a traffic officer to a police station, failing to keep left, and not having a current warrant of fitness. He had previously pleaded guilty to all charges. Spain (Mr E. T. Higgins), was I fined $lOO. and disqualified for a year, on the charge of refusing to give a blood sample, and $5 on each of the charges of failing to keep left and having] no warrant of fitness. EXCESSIVE ALCOHOL In Ministry of Transport prosecutions for driving with an excessive blood-alcohol concentration, convictions were entered, and penalties imposed, as follows: Allan Edwin Atkins (278 mg.), fined $250, disqualified from driving for 18 months; Geoffrey Rowland Henley Brown (151 mg.), fined $lOO. nine months; Edward Garry O’Neill (168 mg.), $lOO, nine months; George Slater (157 mg.), $lOO. nine months; Barry David Reed (132 mg.), $6O. six months; Robert Walter Taylor (140 mg.), $75 six months; James Joseph Mills (276 mg.l. $250, 18 months. (Before Messrs L. C. Fulford and G. A. Brown, Justices of the Peace.) COMMITTED FOR TRIAL Two men were committed to the Supreme Court for trial after the taking of depositions on charges of burglary. They are Joseph Ranginul Edwards, aged 28. a welder, and Rodney Warwick Burt, aged 24, a painter (Mr D. J. R. Holder- ■ ness. for both), who both ' pleaded not guilty to charges of , breaking and entering premises at 57 Colombo Street and 146 A ' England Street, Linwood. Burt also pleaded not guilty . to a charge of receiving.