MAGISTRATE'S COURT Man sentenced to two years gaol

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33739, 11 January 1975, Page 7

MAGISTRATE'S COURT Man sentenced to two years gaol

An unemployed labourer! was sentenced to two years: imprisonment when he ap- ! peared for sentence on seven: charges of burglary and one: dirge of receiving before: ]MrE. S. J. Crutchley, S.M., [ [ in the Magistrate’s Court: [yesterday. Peter Kira Hemopo, aged ! -38, had been convicted on; six charges of burglary of [private dwellings, one: charge of burglary of a tent,; :and one charge of receiving! [explosives. He was sen-i tenced to two years imprisonment on each chargeI of burglary and - three j months imprisonment on the; i receiving charge, the terms to be served concurrently. About $1330 worth of property was taken in the burglaries. The defendant also! received a small quantity of explosives. DAMAGE TO TELEPHONES : A young man who’ pleaded i guilty to six charges'of willfully damaging public telephones in the early hours of July 6 last year was con-1 victed and fined $2O on each; charge. Detective Sergeant N. W. Milsum said that Stephen i Wallace Fraser, aged 17, an apprentice carpenter, and two friends were seen entering a public call box about 2.15 a.m. They pulled the handset and cord off the phone, and put it in their [car. When interviewed by the ; police, they admitted damaging five other telephones. The total cost of the damage was $39.11. The defendant was ordered to pay $13.04 restitution. FIVE CHARGES Kevin Graeme Archbold, - alias Kerry Wilson, aged 26, unemployed, was sentenced to imprisonment for a total of 18 months when he appeared for sentence on three . charges of theft, one of bur- ' glary and one of false pretence. He pleaded guilty to all charges and was convicted. PROBATION Luana Sandra Rehina Ma-[ taira, also known as Sandra. ■Marilyn Clarkson, aged 21,] -unemployed, was placed on] iprobation for one year onleach of two charges when] ■she appeared for sentence. She had previously plead[ed guilty to one charge of I breach of probation and one! charge of stowing away in a; 'ship. TOOK OFF CLOTHES A man who took off all his clothes in the public foyer at the Christchurch Central Police Station on January 10 was convicted and remanded on bail to January 17 for sentence. Arthur Roland Johnson, aged 28, an unemployed fruitpicker, pleaded guilty to wilfully and obscenely exposing himself. [ Detective Sergeant. Milsum isaid that only the duty con-: [stable was present at the [time of the offence. Johnson: itold the police that he was [dissatisfied with today’s! [society. ,

((Before Mr K. H. J. Headifen. S.M.) MURDER CHARGE : David Alexander Thomson, ; aged 23, a storeman was remanded in custody until ! February 13 for the taking, !of depositions when he ap-, i peared on a charge of murI dering Gregory Slack on: j Christmas Eve. and on two -charges of assault. Nigel Wayne Kerr, aged: [23, a tyre retreader, who is] /also charged with mur[der, wass remanded to the [ same date for the taking of I "depositions. The charges arise from an [incident in Fitzgerald! Avenue in which a young; man was stabbed in the: stomach. LIQUOR OFFENCES

A young man who was; found drinking with a 15-1 year-old girl in a city motor lodge was fined a total of $36 when he appeared on three charges relating to the incident. Michael Thomas Hout, aged 19, pleaded guilty to charges of being in a bar] under age, giving false par-i

- ticulars to the police, and .supplying liquor to a person under 20 years of age. ATTEMPTED THEFT David William Edinburgh, aged 20. a fitter and turner,; was fined $5O for the at-' tempted theft of a tape recorder. Edinburgh (Mr M. J. Glue) pleaded guilty. The defendant tried to; steal the tape recorder from a party by hiding it under -his jacket, said Sergeant A. IH. Huckstep. Mr Glue said the defend-: ant was affected by liquor; when the offence took place. He now regretted his inIvolvement. NARCOTIC CHARGE Charles Julian Suckling,! aged 21, was fined $l5O when he pleaded guilty to possessing a narcotic. Sergeant Huclastep said; that the defendant had been given the narcotic, called pethidine, by another person. The narcotic was obtained, from a doctor’s bag which had been stolen. For the defendant Mrs J I Johnston said Suckling was :not a regular drug user.