Charges laid after gate-crash
Four young men appeared in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning on charges related to a gate-crashing incident at a teen-age party in Flockton Street, St Albans, on Friday night.
Bruce Alistair van Nieuwkerk, aged 23, and Ross Geoffrey Hodson, aged 22, were charged with assaulting Brian O’Donoghue with intent to injure him. Rodney Bruce Dowell, aged 18, was charged with assaulting Mr O’Donoghue. David John Nevitt* aged 17, was charged with assaulting Douglas James Tatterson with intent to injure him.
AH four were remanded without plea until August 31 on bail of $2OO with a similar surety, and were ordered to report daily to the Central Police Station by Mr E. S. J. Crutchley, SJW.
Mr Tatterson, aged 36, was stabbed in the eye with a broken bottle and underwent surgery at the week-end.
Mr O’Donoghue, aged 42, and his wife, Marie, aged 37, the owners of the house where the private party was being held, also required hospital treatment from blows to the head.
The incident occurred when a gang, of about 15 youths — some of them wielding bottles and sticks — gate-crashed a private party at 88 Flockton Street about 11 p.m. on Friday.
The four youths were arrested yesterday morning, Sergeant D. Gibson told the Court.
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Press, 25 August 1976, Page 4
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