MAGISTRATE'S COURT Woman persuaded escaped prisoner to return

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33775, 22 February 1975, Page 19

MAGISTRATE'S COURT Woman persuaded escaped prisoner to return

Mr F. G. Paterson, 5.M.,1 commended yesterday a woman who helped talk an escaper into returning to! prison after he had called at her house and had threatened her with his fist. The escaper, Lawrence Te’ Iwi Toa Kanohi. aged 20 (Mr P. G Benseman), appeared in the Magistrate’s Court for sentence on charges of escaping from Paparua Prison: and of assaulting the) woman, Rachel Johnson; Allcock, on November 25 He had previously pleaded g"ilty. Kanohi had his prison: term extended by a total off four months — three) months on the escaping charge and one on the charge of assault. The Court had earlier been' told that Kanohi had been sent to the prison’s piggeries but went to Mrs Allcock’s, house instead. She lives! about a mile from the pris-i on. Kanohi asked for a drink; and was given one. When; she eventually asked him to! leave, he had slammed the front door, grabbed her, and: raised his fists. He asked to be driven into! Christchurch but got out of; the car near the prison and returned across the pad-1 docks. Mr Benseman submitted! that Kanohi was “frustrated” at the time and on the spur of the moment had de-! cided to escape. He had returned voluntarily, however,! when persuaded by Mrs Allcock. “It says much for her that! she was able to persuade you to return,” the Magis-i trate told Kanohi. “CONSTANT OFFENDING” “Your constant offending has to stop or you will be put away from the community for longer and longer periods,” said the Magistrate when sentencing Brent Ro y Coulston, aged 18, on two charges of burglary. Coulston (Mr G. M. Brodie) pleaded guilty to burgling the premises of Keystore Wholesale Groceries (N.Z.), Ltd, and a building shed on Ferry Road on January 29. He was sentenced to im-| prisonment for nine months, to be followed by probation; on the conditions that he* live and work where direct-; ed and not associate With! persons not approved of by! the probation officer. Mr Brodie submitted that i alcohol had influenced the! ! defendant’s behaviour. He! had been drinking for 10] ; hours before the offences he 1 said. The Magistrate noted that i Coulston had already been imprisoned on a charge of) assault. POSSESSED CANNABIS John Douglas Smethurst,! aged 20, (Mr G. R. Las-1 cedes), was convicted and, ! fined $5O when he pleaded! ; guilty to a charge of pos-| sessing cannabis resin on. January 30. Sergeant A. H. Huckstep: said that the defendant had arrived in New Zealand on a flight from Sydney on Janu-i ary 30. On a search of his: luggage, traces of cannabis had been found in the lining of a pocket. The defendant then produced from his sock a piece of paper containing one gram of cannabis resin. He had said friends had given him the cannabis as I“a going-away present” beifore he left Australia. ROBBERY CHARGE A man who appeared on a charge relating to an armed hold-up of the St Martin’s branch of the Canterbury Savings Bank on February

Ito March 12 for the taking 11 of depositions. i. He is Peter Roy Carroll, Haged 20, a labourer, who is : charged that armed with a replica pistol he robbed Racjhel Jessie Searle and Heath(er Margaret Johns. FALSE PRETENCE I Phillip Christopher Court.; aged 19, was remanded on; (bail to February 28 for sentence when he pleaded ‘‘guilty to two charges of; I I false pretence involving; cheques. 'j On December 21, the) ! defendant cashed a stolen (cheque, worth $27 at the J bottle store of a hotel r Rahngiora. Two days later, he I! tried to cash a second: (icheque for $3 4 at a hotel.' (said Sergeant Huckstep. ' The hotel manager was 'lsuspicious of the cheque and! (went to telephone the bank.! ’.When he returned to the' (bottle store, the defendant!' (had gone. When questioned by the (police, Court had admitted ‘jthe offences. ! POSSESSED GELIGNITE |! David Douglas Smith, . [aged 29. was remanded in ' (custody to February 28 (when convicted on charges (of stealing a wallet and con- ! (tents, worth $l5; receiving j clothes worth $132; and pos- ) sessing gelignite except for some proper and sufficient , purpose. He pleaded guilty (to all three charges. Sergeant Huckstep said! (that acting on information! the police stopped the; (defendant’s car on Julv 29! land searched it. They found) (half a stick of gelignite in a plastic bag in the glove box. : The defendant had given his' name as Glen Smitheram and produced a drivers li- , cence to support this. Mr I Smitherham, however, had lost the licence in June, said . Sergeant Huckstep. The , defendant, when questioned, ) admitted that he had found ■ the licence in a wallet lying in an alley. The receiving charge resulted from the police notic- ■ : ing the trousers Smith was; wearing. A jacket matching th? trousers and an overcoat) ' were found in a hotel room; where the defendant was) [Staying. The clothes had been taken in a burglary of His ! I Lordships Bazaar, Manchester Street. The defendant , said that he had bought (them from a man in a hotel. STOLE FROM EMPLOYER A man who had earlier (been convicted on three (charges of stealing from his : j! employer, Kiddey’s Korner, J Ltd, in January, was sentenced to periodic detention (for four months. ( He is John Leslie Grim(wood, aged 30 (Mr C. A.| 'McVeigh), a former manager! lof the shop. i Sergeant R. H. Prouting ; jsaid earlier that the shop’s! ! I owner had become sus-l ijpicious about the takings. Mr McVeigh said that the) (defendant had “enjoyed a| t bitter relationship with his i employer.” )< The Magistrate told the I j defendant that it was a ( | serious type of theft. The (defendant had been m a s position of “supreme trust.” i STOLE MIRROR i Noel John Bearman, aged 17, a shearer, was convicted . and put on probation for 12 > months, ordered to do 50 > hours community work, and disqualified from driving for 1 six months, when he pleaded i guilty to a charge of steal- - ing a rear-vision mirror, valued at $9, from a car on September 23. The defendant had admit- } ted taking the mirror from a Hear in Athol Terrace on Sep((ember 23. !! TWO BURGLARIES— J On two charges of bur- - glary and one of theft. An-1 i thony John Savage, aged 23, i a cleaner, was convicted on I his plea of guilty and re- i manded in custody to February 28 for sentence. On July 14. the defendant and an associate had burgled the home of the associate’s brother. Clothing and jewellery worth $ll4 had been , taken, said Sergeant Huckstep. On September 18, Savage : and another associate had ..entered a house and stolen I three sheepskin rugs. ; UNLAWFUL INTERCOURSE Michael John <>ndersorr, aged 19. unemployed, was convicted and remanded on ' bail to February 28 for sen- ' , tence when he pleaded ) guilty to a charge of having sexual intercourse wit* l a ) girl, aged 14, on January 26 (and one charge of permitting

an unlicensed driver to drive; a car. Christopher Allan Renny, aged 17, who also plead I' guilty to a charge of having sexual intercourse with the same girl, was remanded to! sFebruary 28 for sentence. THEFT .AND BURGLARY A man who pleaded guilty; : to two charges of theft and one of burglary, at Z.uckiland. was convi-’-’d and re- ) manded to February 28 for I sentence. He is Shane Kevin Griffiths, aged 21. (Mr R. J Aldous), who was released) on bail. Sergeant Huckstep said |that on April 30 a cassette .•ape-recorder, valued at $l2O, went missing from a house in Auckland. The defendant, who was found in) I Kaiapoi admitted his part in the theft of i‘. The .defendant had said that hej and a friend had gone to the! complaintant’s house. He had stayed in the car while; his friend went inside the house and took the tape- : recorder. It was later sold to a second-hand dealer. On December 4. $8.50 in a purse went missing from another house in Auc!' '.nd. The defendant admitted the offence. Shirts and jeans were taken in another burglary of an Auckland house on January 16. The defendant admitted this offence also. (Before Mr H J. Evans. S.M.) ASSAULT CHARGES Robert Kingi, aged 31. a welder (Mr A. C. Hughes- . Johnson), was put on probation for 12 months, ordered to do 75 hours community work, and ordered to refet himself to the Natii-'a' Society for Alcoholism and Drug Dependence to discuss his drinking problem, when he appeared for sentence. Kingi had earlier been convicted on pleas of guilty on two charges of assault on January 8. Sergeant Prouting had said earlier that when the police (were called to Cathedral Square after a brawl they I found a man lying on the I footpath semi-cor>®cious and another with a cut mouth. When questioned, KinJ had admitted being involved in a fight in the Square. Mr Hughes-Johnson said that the defendant admitted having had too much to drink and to having used more force than was necessary. (Before Mr P. L. Molineaux. | S.M.) CHARGES RE-LAID ; Charges re-laid against) ! Murray Donald Horton, a 'former editor of “Canta,”: 'have been adjourned to Feb-1 ■ruary 27. ! Counsel for Horton Clr R.i I J. Murfitt) said that the police bad re-issued sum-) imonses after initi .l '-Trges! I had been dismissed for want! of prosecution on February! 14. The charges re-laid are of) obstructing and resisting al constable outside a hotel last October. By arrangement, the case: was adjourned to February; 27, pending the availability i of witnesses. He would make a preliminary application for the dismissal of charges, Mr Murfitt said. OBSTRUCTED CONSTABLE Stephen Cyril Robinson, aged 19. a steel-worker (Mr W. G. G. A. Young), was convicted on his plea of guilty and remanded to February 28 for sentence on i two charges of obstructing a (constable and of driving, 'while disqualified. I Detective Sergeant N. W.| I Milsum said that policemen,) (called to investigate a fight' 'at a Cashel Street address, j were hindered in their in-i quiries by the constant) [interruptions of the defend-; ant. i After several warnings, he! I was arrested. He was slightly intoxicated, and could give no reason for his behaviour. INDECENT ASSAULT Ronald Alexander Johnston, aged 27, a spray painter (Mr P. F. Tempero), was fined $2OO when sentenced on a charge of indecently assaulting a girl aged 17 in a Dunedin nurses’ hostel on' October 10. The defendant had enter’d) the complainant’s room witn i a friend unannounced at 21 a.m., the Magistrate said.' After engaging the com-! plainant in conversation, he' was prevented bv her resis-! I tance from going as far as-! (he could have gone. GAOL FOR ASSAULT I Ranui Togiafa ffongiahoe.' aged 23 (Mr M. 71. Glue),! .was sentenced to. three) I months imprisonment, followed by 12 months probation, on a charge of assault-! ing Mata Kaalli Karimaram. his de facto wife, on Decern-. )ber 21. The defendant was also; ordered to abstain from I liquor. “This was a savage and) brutal assault on a woman! [younger than himself who! was powerless to help her-' self,” the Magistrate said. The Court had previously' been told that Miss Karimaram had been 10 days in| hospital after the incident. CAR CONVERSION Phillip Charles Church, a timber merchant, aged 21 (Mr D. M. Palmer), was put on probation for 18 months, disqualified from driving for six months, and ordered to abstain from alcohol, on a charge of unlawfully taking; a motor-vehicle on Novemiber 3. He had pleaded guilty, j.

I Mr Palmer said that Church had been to a party and blamed alcohol for his action. Church was driving the vehicle when it was in-) i volved in a non-injury accident, causing $4OO of damage, he said. The car was taken from rhe place at which the party was held, and after the accident was a write-off. The defendant remembered nothing of the incident because alcohol aggravated a medical condition causing blackouts, Mr Palmer said.