Magistrate's Court Prostrate drinker hit then urinated on

Press, 8 March 1978, Page 4

Magistrate's Court Prostrate drinker hit then urinated on

A motorist saw a man lying on the side of the road, stopped his car, went through the man’s pockets, punched and jumped on him, and then urinated on his face, before getting back in his car and driving off, the Magistrate’s Court was told yesterday. As a result, Mathew James White, aged 21, a carpenter, was convicted on a charge of causing grievous bodily harm. Mr K. W. Frampton, S.M., remanded him in custody to March 14 for sentence.

Sergeant M. P. Caldwell said that about 5 p.m. on February 28 the complainant left a tavern and was cycling down the road when he fell off and collapsed on the grass verge. The defendant, who was driving along the road, stopped his car, got out and searched the pockets of the complainant. He found some cigarettes but threw them away. He then turned the

complainant over on his back and urinated on his face and body. The complainant was then punched several times and jumped on. Sergeant Caldwell said the complainant was incapable of resistance. The complainant was taken to hospital where he was found to have a broken nose, two blackened eyes, lacerations to his face requiring stitches, and bruises to his head and body. When apprehended, the defendant said he had been intoxicated and was not able to remember anything about the assault. THREAT CHARGE On a charge of threatening to kill Kathleen Giles on Monday, Darryl Kenneth Williams, aged 24, unemployed, was remanded in custody without plea to March 14. Sergeant Caldwell said the remand was sought to enable a psychiatric report to be made on the defendant. DRUG CHARGE Steven Charles Manson, aged 20, was remanded to the Magistrate’s Court in Invercargill on March 14 on a charge of having in his possession 1721 cannabis seeds. No plea was entered. Sergeant Caldwell said the defendant’s home address was in Invercargill and that he had just returned to New

Zealand from Australia on a brief holiday. Manson was granted bail of $5OO, with a surety of the same amount, and ordered to report daily to the Invercargill police. RECEIVING OFFENCE A storeman who pleaded guilty to stealing eight tins of coffee and 18 boxes of a beverage, to a total value of $lOB from his employer, Nestles (N.Z.), Ltd, was convicted and remanded to March 14 for sentence. Martin Paul Robson, aged 27, also pleaded guilty to receiving 72 cans of baby food, valued at $l3. On February 21 the police went to Robson’s address where the goods were found. The defendant told the police that the baby food had fallen off the back of a truck, and that it was “hot." He also said that he got it off a person he met in a ern. The rest of the goods were stolen from Nestles over a two-month period while he was employed by the company, said Sergeant Caldwell. NINE CHARGES Darryl Mark Archer, aged 22, a metal anodiser, was convicted and remanded on $5OO bail to March 14 for a probation report and sentence on nine charges. The charges included seven of false pretence and

two of fraud, involving a total of $555.

Archer obtained groceries, clothing, shoes, hotel accommodation. cash and rail tickets to this value. Most of the offences occurred in the North Island. Sergeant Caldwell said it was only after the defendant went to the Salvation Army in Christchurch that he decided to give himself up io the police. LAST CHANCE A man who stole $3lO from the Hagley Golf Club on February 11 was convicted and released on probation for three years. He was ordered to pay compensation of up to $l5O and to live and work as directed. Eric William Zwarst, aged 18, pleaded guilty to the theft. With $2OO of the proceeds he bought a motor vehicle. Since his release from prison in January the defendant had been living with Mr Dick Tasker a fulltime social worker employed by 6A, who had offered to continue looking after the defendant, the Court was told.

The Magistrate said that Mr Tasker had succeeded in the past with some individuals but he warned that if his attempts at rehabilitation did not succeed and the defendant reappeared before the Court the result would be a custodial sentence.