Glass put by police tyres
“This might have seemed an amusing prank to you and your friends, but the police and their vehicles must be protected,” said Mr F. G. Paterson, S.M., to a youth who appeared before him in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Richard Michael Knoppert, aged 18, a salesman, pleaded guilty to a charge of depositing dangerous litter in Cathedral Square. The Court was told that Knoppert placed pieces of a broken beer bottle behind each of the rear tyres of a police van whose occupants were
talking to some youths in the Square. The Court was told that the defendant did it to impress his friends. ' The Magistrate, while acknowledging the prank side of the incident, urged the youth to behave more responsibly towards the possessions of others. The Magistrate adjourned the case to February 10, with a view to discharging Knoppert, provided the defendant completed 24 hours of community service which the Magistrate stipulated as cleaning police vehicles.
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Press, 11 January 1978, Page 5
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