Three films at function allegedly indecent

Press, 16 September 1976, Page 7

Three films at function allegedly indecent

‘‘Love in a Laundromat,” “The Barber,” and an untitled film depicting sexual acts between two women and a man are the three indecent films which were allegedly shown at a private function on May 14, the Magistrate’s Court heard yesterday. Six men appeared in Court on charges related to the alleged exhibition of indecent films for monetary gain.

Five of them appeared before Mr F. G. Paterson, S.M., and were remanded to November 10 for a fixture when counsel (Mr C. K. Steven) indicated they would plead not guilty. They are Philip Ronald Henley Brown, aged 30; Geoffrey Roland Henley Brown, aged 28; Trevor Malcolm Rosewarne, aged 32; Anthony Lyn Smith, aged 30; and Robert Stanley Tuck, aged 30. The sixth man, Kevin James Wright, aged 27, who was represented by Mr P. D. Gibson, was remanded without plea for a week by Mr B. A. Palmer, S.M. FINED $l5O

A youth who broke into a Greymouth cycle shop while he was drunk was fined $l5O by Mr Paterson yesterday on a charge of burglary. Christopher John Nelson, aged 19, a mechanic, pleaded guilty to entering the premises of Leitch Cycles, Ltd, on May 5. Sergeant B. Saunders said that the defendant had removed a fanlight from the building and taken property worth $l5O. When questioned on August 19, the defendant was wearing a jacket stolen from the shop. (Before Mr E. S J. Crutchley,

$1315 IN RAIDS A 17-year-old youth who, with associates, had stolen $1315 in a series of seven raids on business premises in the city was sentenced to four months periodic detention.

Grant Sidney Bradley, unemployed, had pleaded guilty to six charges of theft, one of burglary and one of receiving.

He was also placed on probation for 18 months and was ordered to pay compensation of $485. Counsel (Mrs P. D. Gibson) said that the defendant had played a very minor part in the burglary, as he had stayed outside. The thefts had been committed while the defendant had been unemployed and he had been largely influenced by his associates to commit the offences, she said. Last week, the prosecution told the Court that offences such as those committed by Bradley were reaching serious proportions in the city, particularly among the unemployed. Most of the money had been taken from shop tills while no-one was looking. In one case, Bradley and an associate had gone into Wardell Kincaids, Ltd, in Tuam Street, stood by an unattended check-out counter until they were sure no-one was looking, and then they had opened the till and taken $743 cash and run away, dropping some of the money as they fled. In another case, Bradley and an associate had snatched a shopping basket containing $4OO cash from the counter of the Randolph Dairy just as the proprietress was closing up shop. (Before Mr B. A. Palmer, S.M.)

“ON A KNIFE EDGE” An 18-year-old youth, who stole a cassette stereo radio player, two speakers and two car radios worth a total of $3BO, was told he was on a “bit of a knife edge” by the Magistrate when he appeared for sentence. Bryan William Pullan, a chicken catcher, was put on 18 months probation, ordered to do 100 hours of community work and disqualified from driving for nine months.

He had previously been convicted on two charges of theft.

Pullan was told by the Magistrate that, because of previous offences for dishonesty, he was on a bit of a knife edge regarding sentence.

“You can take it from me that it is the end of the road as far as that sort of sentence is concerned” he told Pullan after putting the defendant on probation. The Court had previously been told by Sergeant J. C. Rowe that the goods had been stolen from parked cars. On August 28 the defendant was stopped by the police as he was driving through the Square. A radio was found in the front seat of the car and Pullan admitted this had been stolen from a parked car. Sergeant Rowe also said that three months previously the defendant and a friend had stolen a cassette stereo player, two speakers and another car radio from a car parked in Oxford Terrace. No complaints had been received by the police regarding either theft and as the owners of the property have still not been traced an order was made by the Magistrate for it to be forfeited to the Crown.