“Offensive” display in car

Press, 6 August 1976, Page 17

“Offensive” display in car

Two Lincoln College students who had .bared their bottoms to a man and his young family; travelling in a car behind them! were refused suppression of name by Mr F. G. Paterson. S.M.. in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday Bryce Gordon Hickmott and Martin John Fouhy. both aged 18, ( pleaded guilty to behaving in air offensive manner in view of the, public on State Highway 1. near' Saltwater Creek, on May 2. They were both convicted and! placed on probation tor a year,! I with the special condition that) they each do 50 hours com-, niunity work. Sergeant B. G. Saunders said tthat about. 1.30 p.m. on May 2. I the two youths were passengers in the back seat of a car travelling towards Christchurch. They i were driving 30 feet in front of another car in which a man i and his family were travelling.' Near Saltwater Creek. Hick-i Imott and Fouhy had pulled down! itheir trousers and got up on[ . the back seat, bearing their but ; ilocks to the people in the fol-' [lowing car. ! Counsel (Mr C D. Eason) said that the actions of the students was part of a student prank. ! It was aimed at other Lincoln ! College students travelling on ! the same road, and was not intended to offend anyone else, he said. The incident had happened after a post-examination weekend party at Amberley. Applying • for suppression of name. Mr Eason said that the Lincoln College disciplinary board was taking strong measures to censure student misbehaviour, in respect of another incident involving college students, and it was likely that the two would face suspension

5 if their names were published. ) In refusing to grant suppresqsion of name, the Magistrate said J ij that double punishment for suchi F< offences was a matter concerning .ithe community, not only the - Court. ! ATTEMPTED ROBBERY When two youths had J! attempted tu hold up Mr Roy-don >; George Mardon in the Fair Deal ‘second-hand shop in Manchester Street. Mr Mardon had had the . presence of mind to grab a slug! [gun from a display case and • point it at one oi them. Sergeant. E I Saunders told the Court. Russel] Graeme Chapman, aged J 22. unemployed, pleaded guilty to; l ! a charge of attempting to rob Mr! • Mardon on July 28 He was con-! 3 victed and remanded to August; ’ 12 for sentence. ' Sergeant Saunders said that '■ at 1.40 p.m. on July 28. the ’ defendant and an associate. Dallas Cooper, were drinking in •ia city hotel and had decided to i rob a shop to get money. i> They had gone to the second- •; hand dealers shop and Chapman ; went in to distract the salesmen ; and his associate then went into I' the shop with his right hand in » his pocket with his fingers arranged to look as though he J had a gun. ) The complainant had fortunt ately had the presence of mind . to take a slug gun from a display case In the shop and point 1 it at Cooper, who was wearing - a towel as a mask. The two had run off. split up, f and had met later at the hotel, ? where they had been located by ■ the police, Sergeant Saunders J said. HIGH-SPEED CHASE r After a passing police patrol ? car had spotted a youth behavt ing suspiciously at the rear of i Garden City Caterers in Selwyn

■ Street, the youth had made off ! in his car and a 15-minute high- > speed chase round the city had j resulted, the Court was told Anthony Francis Bennett, aged 17. a factory labourer, pleaded guilty to burgling the building > of Garden City Caterers and ■ dangerous driving on July 29. He was convicted and remanded to August 12 for reports and sentence. Sergeant Saunders said that at ; 1.30 a.m on July 29. Bennett had tried twice to get into the I building by breaking glass on i two of the doors. However, he had been unable to open the doors, and had gone round the | back to find another means of j entry when the police patrol had seen him. Bennett had seen the patrol car and had run to his own car and driven off He had been seen in his car later in Strickland Street and was asked to stop by the police patrol. However, he had speeded up and a 15-minute chase at speeds of between 50 and 70 miles an hour had resulted. Sergeant Saunders said. During the chase, Bennett had driven through several stop signs without slowing dov n, and at times he had his lights off and was driving on the wrong side of the road. PARK INCIDENT The youth charged with assault with intent to injure as the result of the alleged bashing of a woman in Bradford Park. Sydenham, last month, was ordered to be detained as a special patient in Sunnyside Hospital under Section 39G of the Criminal Justice Act. The Magistrate said that there was a clear indication in the you th~s psychiatric repo rt of

ff mental disability and he wa> i- obviously not fit to enter a pie*, d to Hie charge The name of the youth, uho i> d aged 17. was suppressed d The woman \\a> hit on the ba< k Sot the head with a piece oi dipipe as she "a> walking through v the park on the afternoon of O'June 25 BAIL ALLOWED it. I'he Cm istchurch doctor con it victed on Wednesday ot proe curing prescription poison on 20 n occasions since May. 1y75. was e granted bail on a special appii e| cation yesterday e, Philip Mathew s Goodrich, aged »t[s4. was remanded on bail to d August 11 on his own recognisance of $750. with one surety »l|of $750. i: A special condition was that he live in at Sunnyside Hospital, riduring the period of his remand d'lßefore Mr E S J iTutchles. S.M.) P PERIODIC DETENTION s A youth was sentenced to five, n months periodic detention after it a •‘wild week-end,’’ in which goods worth $l2OO were stolen, d the Court heard. J Pau] Trevor Ayson, aged 19, unemployed, nad pleaded guilty o to eight charges of theft, two e of unlawfully taking a motor vehicle and one of unlawfully interterring with a motor vehicle . Tiie defendant was also dis , ** I qualified from driving for a « year and was put on probation •for a year k ' Tlie defendant and two other had committed the of- * fences—which included the' JJ theft of a shotgun—while travel ! ° ling from Christchurch to Inver-i ■cargiil.

' Counsel 'Mr A. B Hannan), fl said that the defendant had the . j right not to go with his companions. but failed to exercise that right I The Magistrate said that the defendant came very close to a •term of Borstal or imprisonment 'Before Mr B. A Palmer. S.M • SMASHED UP CAR One of four men who pleaded guilty to charges of wilfully causing in damage to a car [and stealing $7OO worth of ski ing equipment from the ear was ! sentenced to Borstal training The Magistrate said because I Jamie Brydon Inkster, aged 19. ;a moulder, was reported to be' ishowing increasing violence in, situations where there was no provocation the sentence was in his ow*n interests. The three others who also appeared for sentence were Gregory John Creagh, aged 17, a charge hand; John Frederick Pragnell, aged 20, a welder; and John Arthur Adams, aged 33, a charge hand. Adams was put on probation for 18 months and ordered to do 140 hours community work. Both Creagh and Pragnell were sentenced to four months periodic detention and put on probation for a year after the detention training. AH three were each ordered to pay $196 as their share of compensation. The Court had previously heard that on July 11. about 2i a.m., the tour defendants were | seen acting suspiciously near a car at Templeton by Paparua Prison authorities. When approached they drotel off at high speed without switch-! mg on the headlights The police found the four men I on the Main South Road at Templeton. Inkster, Pragnell and Creagh admitted damaging the car and taking the goods. Adams had said he had been there at the time but had not taken part in the incident. Before sentencing the four, the • Magistrate said they had com- ■ mitted a senseless act of vandalJ ism. This sort of offending was i too prevalent in the community.