Magistrate’s Court Stolen cheque used to buy car

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33790, 12 March 1975, Page 23

Magistrate’s Court Stolen cheque used to buy car

A youth who stole a J cheque worth $2005. and;, used it to buy a car was I remanded to March 18 when 1 be pleaded guilty before Mr ! P. L. Mohneaux, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterda” i to a charge of theft.' He is Allan Derek Le-|j febvre, aged 18, unemployed. I Sergeant N. W. Milsum said that in February the ■ Post Office sent a cheque for $2005.56 to the complainant’s old address in Stanbridge Street. The defendant, who was living at that address, took! the cheque and bought a 1964 car for $1134 from a dealer in Manchester Street. He drove the car for 3000 miles before calling at a police station and admitting the offence. Compensation of $B7l is sought as the amount given to Lefebvre by the car dealer. The defendant said that he put the $B7l in his bank account. HIT BY KNIFE A »beath knife thrown by the defendant went threw the" window of a vehicle and injured a man, said Detective Sergeant Milsum after WlUlam Arthur Dickson pleaded guilty to a charge of assaulting Barry John Maxwell on March 8. Dickson, aged 18, a factory hand iMr K. N. Hampton), was convicted and remanded on bail to March 12 for sentence. Detective Sergeant Milsum said that two cars were racing each other in St Albans about 1.15 a.m. when the defendant threw the knife. He told the police that he had thrown it at the car rather than at any person. The person injured was later treated at hospital. Another youth, Bruce Alexander Hogwood, who threw a spanner in the same incident, was remanded to March 18 on a charge of having an offensive weapon. Hogwood, aged 18, unemployed, pleaded guilty. The 12in spanner bounced off the roof of one of the cars, said Detective Sergeant Milsum. Hoggood said he had thrown it because he was "fed up with those in the ether car.”

LYSERGIDE AND CANNABIS Nicola Mary Brooke, aged 17, a waitress, was convicted and fined 850 when she pleaded guilty to charges of possessing lysergide ana cannabis on Match 4. On similar charges, Raymond Thomas Keith Pierce, aged 20, a clerk, was remanded on bail to March 18 for sentence. He pleaded guilty. Detective Sergeant MUsum said that on March 4 the drug squad called at a house in Marine Parade. The defendants were occupying the house at the time. Cannabis weighing 0,11 grams and one dose of lysergide were found in the handbag of the defendant, Brooke. The defendant. Pierce, said that he had asked Brooke to look after the drugs for him in case the police came to search the house.

EXCESSIVE ALCOHOL ' Graham John Kelly, aged 35, a labourer, w as convicted and fined 8200 ana disqualified from driving for IS months when be pleaded guilty to a charge of driving with an excessive bloodalcehol level (220mj.) en December 20. FAILED TO STOP A man who failed to stop after an accident on North Avon Road was fined a total of 8100 and disqualified from driving for six months when he pleaded guilty to three charges. He is Michael Anthony Shine, aged 24. a traveller >Mr R. B. venntngt, who was fined $25 on a charge of careless use of a car, 850 for failing to stop after an accident, and $25 for falling to ascertain if anyone was injured. Detective Sergeant Mllsum said that the defendant drove his van into the back of a car turning right from North Avon Road Into Stanmore Road about 9.30 p.m. on December 19. After the collision the defendant backed his van and drove off without stopping to see if anyone was injured. Both vehicles were severely damaged, and the person in the car suffered whiplash Injuries to the neck. Although the van’s number was taken by a witness, the defendant voluntarily went to the police 12 hours later and reported the accident. He had said that he panicked and drove home.

mr vmmng oaiu urn* was on his wav home from his employer’s Christmas party. After the accident he drove to Petrie Street and stopped to look back before going on. THEFT Lynette Frances Dyer, aged 30. was convicted and fined $25. when she pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing a kitchen thermometer, valved at $2.20. from Wool worths. New Brighton, on January 24. ASSAULT A man who pleaded not guilty to a charge of assault on October 2. was convicted and fined $75. The man’s name was suppressed. . . . The complainant said that he

had been at the home ui tlie The complainant said that he grabbed the cup. The defendant then picked up an ashtray and smashed it On the heater. He threw it into the hail and left the house.

The complainant said that he suffered a cut hand and lip, which required stitches. In evidence, the defendant said he had thumped the cup on the heater to emphasise a point, and it had split in two. The complainant eame at him and he "moved in,” too. A struggle took place while the defendant still had the cup in his hand. The Magistrate said that the defendant had moved towards the complainant, who had ibecome apprehensive, and tried to disarm him. DISQUALIFIED DRIVER A fine of $2OO was Imposed on Graham Malcolm Smith when he was convicted on his plea of guilty to a charge of driving on Bowhill Road on January 28 while disqualified. He also had his licence cancelled for six months.

EXCESSIVE ALCOHOL Peter Thomas Knowles, aged 19, was convicted and fined $l3O and disqualified from driving for 12 months, when he pleaded guilty to a charge of driving with an excessive blood-alcohol count 1196 mg) on January 11. Brett Duncan Granger, aged 19 (Mr M. J. Glue), was convicted, fined $BO and disqualified from driving for six months on a charge of driving with an excessive blood-alcohoi level (120 mg). He pleaded guilty. (Before Mr W. F. Brown, S.M.) PEDESTRIAN KILLED

An 84-year-old retired hairdresser who allegedly hit a man on a pedestrian crossing on Riccarton Road, near Euston Street, on August 21, pleaded not guilty to a charge of carelessly using a motor-car causing death. The defended hearing was adjourned part-heard to today to permit further evidence to be called.

The defendant. Clifford James Evans (Mr A. N. Hearn), said in evidence yesterday that the man killed, Charles Ogston Barron. had attempted to cross the road about 30ft from the cross-

"I first saw him crawling; between two cars — he was then thrown up by another car and landed on my windscreen,” he said. Although he had told a constable at the scene of the accident that he had hit the man, on further reflection and inspection of his car, he felt he had been mistaken, he said. "The man must have been picked up by a west-bound car and thrown up on to my windscreen,” he said. Mr S. McKenzie told the Court that he saw a man walk across the pedestrian crossing. Wlien he was about two-thirds across he was hit by the defendant’s car.

defendant’s former wife, by himself, and was asleep on the sofa when he woke to find the defendant standing over him holding a broken coffee cup over witnesses’s eve. The defendant, who had broken the cup on a heater, then began yelling and screaming.

SOLD CANNABIS Tony Royce Stephens, aged 28, a self-employed coin-machine operator (Mr C. A. JlcVeigh), who pleaded guilty to a charge of selling cannabis to Carrol Edna Paintin, was convicted and remanded on bail to March 18 for sentence. Sergeant N. W. Mcßae said that on October 12 last year a constable made arrangements to buy five buddha sticks of cannabis, valued at $75. from a girl. The girl took the constable to the defendant’s flat, where she got the sticks, which were later found to contain 9.5 gm of cannabis, and gave them to the constable. PROBATION Michael James Ralph Smith, aged 18, a tanner (Mr J. E. Burke), was put on probation for a year when he appeared for sentence on a charge of assaulting his wife on November 11.

The defendant had earlier I pleaded guilty. The Court was teld that he had taken off his belt, put it around his wile’s neck, and pulled both ends in an attempt to “scare her.” The Magistrate said the assault was nasty, and would not be tolerated. “Husbands cannot assault their wives in this way.” In submissions, Mr Burke said the defendant had felt overshadowed by his wife, and this might have helped to build up the tension between them. RECEIVING Rae Wallace Blacktop, aged 43. a bakery worker, was convicted and remanded to March 18 on bail, after pleading not guilty to a charge of receiving nine tyres, valued at $675 on June 12. He was ordered to be medically examined for the adult work centre. The Magistrate had earlier reserved his decision.