Knife thrust at people

Press, 3 May 1977, Page 4

Knife thrust at people

A youth brandishing an B)in long caning knife had thrust the knife in the face of two people in cars during two separate incidents in the Square, the Magistrate’s Court was told yesterday. Peter Michael Humphrey, aged 20, unemployed was re- , manded to May 16 for sent- ' ence by Mr B. A. Palmer. r - S.M., after the youth pleaded - guilty to a charge of unlawiL fully possessing an offensive s ; weapon, namely a knife, on ': February 10. s Sergeant R. H. Prouting i ; said that at 1.45 a.m. on that e date, the defendant had apt proached a car parked outside the Bank of New ZeaB land building in the Square - and pointed the carving knife (in the face of a passenger. About an hour later. Hum- . phrey approached another (car in the same area and pointed the knife through ’the open window of the ,; driver’s door, so that the ’ knife touched the driver’s '. face. j On both occasions. Hum■phrey had been pulled away 1 by friends, Sergeant Prouting said. Humphrey’s explanation to lithe police was that he did ! mot like some of the people, 1 that hung round the Square I at night and wanted to scare ' them. ’; The Magistrate ordered that the knife be destroyed. 1 ROBBERY ALLEGED Stuart John Woodley, aged 19, appeared in Court ( yesterday on a charge of ( making a false statement to

n'the police on Sunday, namelv d that there had been a robe bery. g( He also faces a further e charge of stealing $152 from si his employer. Fun and 1 Games, Ltd, on the same '.idate. The deputy-solicitor (Mr - G. Hay) said that Woodley's ■. parents had engaged Mr M. d J. Glue to appear for him - and sought a remand to Frie day. Woodley was accordn ingly remanded on $250 bail CHILD ASSAULT ’ ALLEGED A 31-year-old woman ap- ( peared in Court on a charge ’ of making a false statement j to the police, namely that h her eight-year-old daughter had been indecently assaulted on February 8. ' The woman, who was I granted interim suppression J of name, was remanded to /May 9 without entering a , plea. s: ESCAPING CHARGE ; Anthony Darryl Brown, ’(aged 18, was remanded in ■custody to May 9 when he ■(appeared on a charge of (escaping from Invercargill ’ Borstal on April 19. I The deputy-solicitor (Mr '(Hay) said that Brown wished : to seek legal advice and ' sought a remand for a week without entering a plea to ! the charge. Brown was one of four youths alleged to have escaped from a work party at Invercargill Borstal a fortnight ago. One of them is still at large.