Doctor pumped woman ‘full of drugs,’ court told

Press, 24 February 1978, Page 4

Doctor pumped woman ‘full of drugs,’ court told

A woman, aged 22. who was convicted on four drug charges, and who will be

‘giving evidence in court proceedings against a Christchurch doctor, was given 12 months probation when she appeared for sentence before Mr J. S. Bisphan, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. The woman’s name and evidence related to the offences was suppressed. The Court was told during an earlier appearance that she would be giving evidence in proceedings involving a Christchurch doctor. The woman was convicted of using heroin; with using i a prescription poison, diazepan, without reasonable excuse; with procuring a class B controlled drag, meth-; aqualone; and with using a| prescription poison, pentazocine, without lawful excuse. Counsel (Mr R. F. B. Perry) said his client was a willing party to the first offence but that the other of-. fences would not have been; committed if the other party i involved had not used his j professional position to getl drugs. “In effect he pumped my ■ client full of drugs,” said Mr! Perry. The way in which this | professional man used his position to get drugs had been “reprehensible,” he said. The Magistrate said he thought the woman had been over-borne by this professional man who should have! known better. Mr Perry said he thought! his client had learnt her les-j son about drugs. A 29-year-oid woman con-! victed of drug charges re-; lated to those faced by the; 22-year-old woman was granted a further remand be-; fore being sentenced. The Magistrate remanded | the woman in custody to' March 9. He said the woman was i due to be sentenced on more serious charges in the Supreme Court at Auckland and these should be dealt with before the charges she was facing in Christchurch. The woman previously pleaded guilty to charges of receiving a prescription poi-.

i son, diazepan; of using t !class B controlled drug, morIphine; of procuring a class B [drug, dextromoramide; and [with using without reasonable excuse a prescription poison, pentazocine. Her name and evidence related to the offences were also suppressed. BROTHERS IN CUSTODY Two brothers with 10 convictions between them both received custodial sentences when they appeared yesterday. Mark Huia Bain, aged 17, was sentenced to Borstal training, and his brother, Cyril Douglas Bain, aged 20, was sentenced to six months imprisonment. Mark Bain had been convicted of one charge of assault; one of theft; one of unlawfully entering a dwelling place; and three of burglary. Cyril Bain had been convicted of being drunk in a public place and three charge® of burglary. Counsel for the brothers, Mr M. J. Glue, said barbiturates had been connected with much of Mark Bain’s offending. The Magistrate said Bain had already been in Borstal for aggravated assault and had been involved in “door-to-door" burglaries, so there was no alternative but further Borstal training. He said that although Cyril Bain was not in as bad position as his brother he had already had a term of periodic detention which had not been effective so imprisonment was now the only appropriate sentence. Cyril Bain was also sentenced to 12 months probation following his prison term. (Before Mr K. W. Frampton, S.M.) CUSTOMS OFFENCE On a charge brought under the Customs Act a Japanese seaman, aged 45, was convicted and fined $125. Hayao Y’amauchi, the chief engineer on the Toyo Maru No.l, pleaded guilty to having in his possession uncustomed goods — seven bottles of brandy and two bottles of whisky — valued at

i The Court was told that ■ the defendant’s ship arrived ; at Lyttelton on February 21 I and that it was due to sail again in the next day or two. The defendant had declared only one bottle of liquor but during a Customs rummage i seven bottles of brandy were found in the engine room and two bottles of whisky in his quarters. The Court was told that the fact the goods were hidden implied that, the defendant was attempting to introduce them into the community. In imposing the fine the Magistrate ordered its immediate payment in default of which the defendant iwould be detained in custody for one month. I The liquor was to be forfeited to the Customs Department. CAUSED DEATH ; Jeffrey Stephen Maurice ’Ellis, aged 25, a welder, was i convicted and remanded in custody to March 2 for a ’probation report and sen- ! fence on a charge of causing ! the death of a 13-year-old i pedestrian. i Ellis pleaded guilty to a ! charge that he caused the I death of Guy Robert DavidI son by driving a car on

Fitzgerald Avenue on October 30 while the proportion of alcohol in his blood exceeded 100 milligrams per JOO millilitres of blood. Sergeant Prouting said the defendant, after turning into Fitzgerald Avenue from Bealey Avenue, had lost control of his car which had mounted the footpath and hit a power pole. It was also found that the car which had skidded had then hit a young pedestrian on the footpath. i As a result the boy had ’died of multiple injuries. The defendant said he could not remember at what speed he was travelling along Fitzgerald Avenue. All he did remember was losing control of the car. Sergeant Prouting said the defendant admitted having been drinking at home earlier but could not recall for how Jong. A blood specimen was requested and analysis revealed 226 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood. When bail was sought for the defendant the Magistrate said he could not overlook the fact that it was the defendant’s second appearance before the court involving death after a road accident.