No bail again for nine men
Bail was again refused the nine men charged with unlawful assembly after a gatecrashing incident at an engagement party at Riccarton on March 24, and they were remanded in custody to May 19 by Mr B. A. Palmer, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Six persons were injured in the incident, and $l4OO worth of damage was caused. Those charged with unlawful assembly are: Stuart Donald Jordan, aged 21; Brent Steven Gregg, aged 21; Gary Wayne Tavendale, aged 19; Peter John Gallagher, aged 19; David Arthur Best, aged 26; Michael Colin Best, aged 20; Wayne Jeffrey Warwood, aged 20; Christopher; Robin Adair, aged 20; and; Anthony Sidney Frederick | Wood, aged 17. Bail was opposed by the! police, said Sergeant R. H. Prouting, and after a hearing in chambers yesterday after-1
: noon all the accused were ■ remanded in custody. A tenth man charged with - unlawful assembly at the Rici carton gate-crashing incident, > Michael Anthony Holloway, ' aged 20, pleaded guilty when , he appeared in court last - week. He was remanded in custody to May 20 for seni tence. i All of the defendants are also charged with assault, ■ wilfully damaging the Riccart ton Road house to the value ; of $l4OO, and breaking and : entering the house. I The Magistrate, in remand- , ing the nine yesterday, said , that Wood, on account of his , age, would be kept segre- - gated from other adult ■■prisoners. li Gregg and Wood face addi- : tional charges laid yesterday I of the theft of $768 worth of t electrically powered articles . and the burglary of an egg ; shed on a property at Broad- ■ I fields.
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