MAGISTRATE’S COURT Public moved from gallery

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34044, 7 January 1976, Page 15

MAGISTRATE’S COURT Public moved from gallery

The gallery wasp ordered from the Magistrate’s Court yesterday! w hen a man. aged 28. appeared on a charge of assaulting his three-teal-old daughter. Mr N. L. Bradford. S.M., ■ cleared the Court so that hej could discuss a preliminary: psychiatric report with de-; fondant’s counsel (Mr A. K. Grant). Although the defendant had not pleaded to the as-| sault charge yet, the police; alleged he had beaten and I bruised his daughter, the Magistrate said. If the alle-i gation was true, the police', should lay a complaint under! the Children and Young Per- 1 sons Act — resulting in the; girl coming under the care of the Department of Welfare. I The case was adjourned, for a week to allow the' police to lay a complaint.; 1 he defendant was allowed: bail. PUNCHED CONSTABLE ! When arrested for wilful | damage, Ottou Ah-Dar. aged! 27. refused to get into a police car and punched a[ constable in the face, the; Court heard. Ah-Dar. a carpenter, was convicted on a charge of assault and put on probation for a year, with the condi-1 tion he do 100 hours of com-! tnunity work. On a charge of! wilfully damaging a window.! he was fined S3O and ordered; to pay compensation of $l2. He pleaded guilty to both charges. Detective Sergeant D. N. Scott said that on January 5 the defendant broke the window of a Worcester Street house after the complainant, a woman, had refused him entry’. When the police arrived Ah-Dar had denied breaking the window. He was asked to get into a car but he refused and punched a constable after saying: “Don’t get! smart with me.” BURGLED SHOP A 24-year-old rag collector; v as convicted and remanded ■ on bail to January 9 on a « harge of burgling the Hide: Shop. Colombo Street, on December 17. He pleaded; guilty. Detective Sergeant Scott! said that the defendant. John James Cullen, had entered the premises by breaking the glass in the shop door. The building was fitted with an audible alarm and this was activated by the defendant. A nearbv nightwatchman had heard the alarm and spotted the de-1 fendant on the premises. Detective Sergeant Scott said that the defendant was found in possession of cash taken from the shop. However. goods removed from the premises were dropped outside the building. When questioned by the police, the defendant denied the charge and said that he was walking down Colombo Street at the time. CAR OFFENCES Peter Raymond Whall.! aged 17, an unemployed! workman (Mr M. J. Glue),! pleaded guilty to five charges involving cars. He was convicted and remanded on bail to January 9 on two charges of unlawfully interfering with a car; one of stealing a spot-lamp.

and another of unlawfully getting into a car, all on December 10. Whall also pleaded guilty to a charge that on October 9, he unlawfully took a car. Whall had taken a car from a driveway in Rose Street, after pushing the car parked in front of it into the .street, said Detective Sergeant Scott. He obtained a jar and a length of rubber hose, and was apprehended by the police while unlawfully interfering with another vehicle in Huntsbury Avenue. Several companions ran off.