MAGISTRATES COURT Man gaoled after kicking boy and throwing bottles

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33883, 1 July 1975, Page 7

MAGISTRATES COURT Man gaoled after kicking boy and throwing bottles

A man who hit and kicked a boy of 13 and on another occasion threw a heater and beer bottles at the boy’s mother, was imprisoned for 12 months by Mr E. S. J. Crutchley, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday on two charges of assault.

Trevor James Garlick, aged 39, a timber worker (Mr E. T. Higgins), pleaded guilty to a charge of assaulting Ann Merilyn Sherlock, and had earlier pleaded guilty to a charge of assaulting Wayne Sherlock.

Sergeant T. Moore said that on May 10, Garlick and the complainant had been drinking at a hotel. When they got home an argument developed and he threw the complainant to the floor.

He then threw a heater and beer bottles at her, and hit her on the back. When she refused to get up, he kicked her and threw some more beer bottles at her. The noise awakened her children and the police were called. When they arrived they found bottles on the floor, including broken ones. The complainant suffered a cut to her scalp, and bruising to her shoulder and back, said Sergeant Moore. Mr Higgins said Garlickbecame violent and uncontrollable in these situations, and it was unfortunate that he assaulted those who were closest to him. Garlick would like, if possible, to get to the root of the trouble.

“As the probation report states, the saddening feature of the whole situation is that he and his de facto partner want to rectify the problem,” counsel said.

The Magistrate said that in spite of what Mr Higgins submitted, when offences of this kind were committed as a result of uncontrollable behaviour society must be protected, at least for a time. (Before Mr W. F. Brown. S.M.)

$5OO FINE A man who tried to smuggle 17.8 grams of cannabis, hidden in his underpants, into New Zealand was fined $5OO, when he 1 appeared for sentence on a charge of Importing cannabis. Andrew John Parnell, aged 21 (Mr G. R. Lascelles), had previously pleaded guilty. In evidence the defendant said he brought the cannabis to New Zealand from Australia as a favour for a friend. Counsel said the defendant had travelled from his home in Scotland and was a young man "of excellent character.” The Magistrate said the defendant "came very close to a prison sentence” and ordered the fine to be paid within six weeks. ELECTION CHARGES A defended hearing on two charges against Laurence Janies George Franks, a Walmairl County councillor, did not proceed. Franks, aged 53, who faces two charges under the Local Elections and Polls Act, was represented by Mr W. G. G. A. Young who had the charges further adjourned to August 25. Another counsel, Mr C. A. McVeigh, had represented Franks on three earlier occasions when the charges were called. The charges relate to the local elections in October when certain statements were allegedly published about Mrs H. M. Tait, a candidate in the elections. NARCOTICS CHARGES

David William Hopgood, aged 23. a driver (Mr S. G. Erberi, was fined $lOO on a charge of possessing "one dose” of lysergide and $5O on a charge of possessing 62 cannabis seeds. He had pleaded guilty. Mr Erber submitted that Hopgood had accumulated cannabis seeds as another person would collect nuts and bolts. He had

had no Intention of planting the seeds.

Hopgood was also prepared never to touch lysergide again, counsel said. BREACH OF PROBATION

On a charge of failing to report for periodic detention, Peter Reuben Goldring, aged 18 (Mr A. K. Grant), was sentenced to periodic detention for four months, having pleaded guilty. Goldring was sentenced to three months periodic detention on May 7 on a charge of breach of probation. He did not report on May 28. IDLE AND DISORDERLY Four young women and a youth, who were found waiting for a ship to berth at No. 3 wharf, Lyttelton, on Friday afternoon, pleaded guilty to a charge of being idle and disorderly in that they had insufficient lawful means of support. Sally Gear, aged 22, Luana Heitia, aged 17, Janet Teresa Rawiri, aged 22, and Richard Michael Newport, aged 19, all unemployed, were each discharged without conviction under Section 42 of the Criminal Justice Act. Elsie Herbert, aged 20, was convicted and discharged. Sergeant K. T. Boyle said that the defendants and other young women were found waiting for an overseas ship to berth at Lyttelton about 2.50 p.m. One of the group had said she knew a person in the ship, and was waiting for him. AIT the defendants had recently spent night In ships In port, said Sergeant Boyle. Mr N. S. Bonifant, for the defendants, said that there was nothing sinister about the defen dants’ actions. Only one of them had any previous convictions. They all intended to return to the North Island. RECEIVING CHARGE

Linda Elizabeth Morgan, aged 20, was convicted and remanded to July 7 for a probation report and sentence on a charge of receiving a cheque knowing it to be stolen. Sergeant Boyle said a cheque from the Accident Compensation Commission for $244 was reported stolen on April 1. When Interviewed by the police the defendant admitted receiving the cheque, saying a male friend had stolen it and given it to her. HAD CANNABIS Laurelle Carolyn Carson, aged 23, a clerk (Mr G. R. Lascelles), was convicted and fined $5O on a charge of possessing 0.05 gm of cannabis. She pleaded guilty. Sergeant Boyle said the defendant was questioned in a Lyttelton hotel on June 23 and was found to have the cannabis in her purse. FINED $4O Three youths who threw bottles at a Car as retaliation against its occupants were each fined $4O. Peter John Nell Ryan, aged 18, a post office worker, Peter George Sparks, aged 20, an autoelectrician, and Tony Randal Good, aged 19, a service station attendant, all pleaded guilty to a charge of behaving in a disorderly manner on March 29. Sergeant Boyle said that at 11.15 p.m. the defendants were in a car driving along the Main South Road, Hornby. Another car passed them, and the occupants of tills car threw a bottle at the defendants’ car, smashing a window. The defendants caught up with the car, said Sergeant Boyle. They got out of their car with bottles of beer and threw them at the ear. The youths admitted throwing the bottles as "retaliation” for having their car window broken.

The occupants of the other ear have net been found. TWO CHARGES

Allster Andrew McColl, aged 19, a trainee draughtsman (Sir A. W. Robinson), was convicted and fined $6O on charges of theft, and possessing a pipe for the purpose of using cannabis. He pleaded guilty. Sergeant Boyle said McColl’s home was searched on June 20. A road works warning lamp valued at $2O was found in a wardrobe in his bedroom. A pipe containing a cigarette end was also found and had traces of cannabis. McColl said that early In May he had been walking home from a hotel and took the light from road works in Brougham Street. He had been drunk at the time. Mr Robinson said that McColl was the last person to receive the pipe and an unusable butt of a cannabis joint at a dance. He took it home and did not know whom to give it to. There was nothing sinister in either offence, said counsel. STOLE JARS A 27-year-old man who wanted to do some pickling was fined $5O on two charges of stealing an earthenware jar, valued at $2O. Trevor Anthony Dodds, a waiter (Mr L. V. North), pleaded guiltv to the two charges. Sergeant Boyle said that at 8.10 p.m. on June 16, the defendant went into the complainant’s fiat while she was there. When he left he took an earthenware jar. When the complainant asked him if he had taken It, he denied any knowledge of the offence.

On June 20 ho went Into the complainant’s house to help her and another girl to move their effects. As he was leaving he

took a second earthenware jar. When interviewed by the police he admitted the offences and told them he was thinking of using the jars for pickling. Mr North said his client acted Impulsively on both occasions. DAMAGED WATCH Deborah Joy Cassidy, aged 17, a housekeeper (Mrs D. J. Rotherhaml, was fined $3O on a charge of using obscene language in Cathedral Square and ordered to pay compensation of $lO on a charge of wilfully damaging police Sergeant A. M. Andrews's wrist watch. 'She pleaded guilty to both charges. Sergeant Boyle said that about 7 p.m. on June 21 two persons were arrested in Cathedral Square The defendant was standing by a police car talking to the arrested persons in It. She was warned she would be arrested if she did not move away. She became abusive and used obscene language. She was subsequently arrested and as she was placed in the police car, she grabbed Sergeant Andrew’s arm. The. sergeant’s wrist watch fell from his arm and was damaged when it hit the road. Mrs Rotherham said Cassidy had told her that the police sergeant had hit her, giving her a bleeding nose. She did not know how she broke the sergeant’s watch. EXCESS ALCOHOL AtoniO Faitaua, aged 24, was convicted and fined $lOO and disqualified from driving for six months when he pleaded guilty to a charge of driving with an excessive blood-aleohol level (146 m.g.) on March 29. (Before Mr P. L. Mollneaux, S.M.) CUSTOMS OFFENCE Robert Wayne Campbell, a seaman (Mr J. G. Fogarty), was convicted and fined $2OO on a charge of making an erroneous declaration to the Customs Department. The defendant, a seamon In the ship Union Sydney, was found at Lyttelton on June 3 in possession of radios valued at $223. Counsel said the radios were bought in Singapore and ware of inferior quality. 1970 OFFENCE A Christchurch engineering company. W. H Harris, Ltd, was fined $4O on a charge of failing to comply with safety regulations. . X » Counsel for the Inspector of Factories said that an 18-year-old employee of the company suffered injuries while working a power press on July 30, 1970. Counsel for the company (Mr I. J. D. Hall) said the company had bought the press for its safety features and did not think it necessary to fit guards to it.