Magistrate's Court Alleged threat to shoot magistrate

Press, 23 June 1978, Page 7

Magistrate's Court Alleged threat to shoot magistrate

An unemployed youth, aged 19. appeared in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday afternoon after allegedlythreatening to shoot a Christchurch magistrate. He , was remanded in custody to lune 29 bv Mr J. S. Bisphan. S.M. The youth is Peter Walker Momo, who was charged with using threatening, words in the watch-house I reception fover of the Cen-: tral Police Station yesterday* morning. Sergeant B. N. Thompson' sought a remand in custody; to June 29, after saying thatj the charge involved a threat to shoot Mr K. W. Framp-1 ton. S.M. Police inquiries had shown that the defendant had

access to a w’eapon, he said. The Magistrate asked Momo if he wanted to be legally represented, and he replied that he did. As no duty solicitor was in the courtroom, the Magistrate said that in view of the defendant’s coming up for sentence on June 29 he would reman i Momo in custody to that date. Momo had been convicted by Mr Frampton, S.M., yesterday morning on an assault charge. At the morning hearing, Detective Sergeant J. J. Chadderton said that a boy of 15 who was talking with a friend after school at the corner of Tennyson and Colombo Streets had been punched in the face and kneed in the stomach by Momo for no apparent reason. Counsel (Mr D. .1. Taffs) said that Momo had hit the boy and told him to get off his bicycle because he (Momo) was upset about his girlfriend. Detective Sergeant Chadderton said that after hitting the boy, Momo had gone to a shopping centre where he had kicked over rubbish bins, kicked cars, and had shouted abuse at shoppers.

Memo was then remanded by Mr Frampton, S.M., to June 29 for a probation report and sentence. 78 CHARGES Jonathon William Tate, aged 18, unemployed, was sentenced to Borstal training when he appeared on 78 charges — mostly of false pretence — committed earlier this year. The defendant had pleaded guilty to 49 charges last week and to a further 29 yesterday. From these offences, he had obtained cash and goods worth about $2289. The Court heard last week that the defendant had obtained two stolen cheque books which had been used m committing the offences. He had also pleaded guilty to four charges of forgery’, one of theft, and one of a breach of periodic detention. Counsel (Mr C. D. Eason) said his client’s offending had been on a major scale and as such he had expected to be apprehended. He said ; t appeared that his client had become obsessed with "a sort of self-destructive idea.” Mr Eason said his client had also sought a prison sentence rather than Borstal training. The Magistrate said that, the defendant was in need of seme form Of training and' discipline, and that Borstal ■ training was the most appropriate sentence under the: circumstances. (Before Mr K. W. Frampton,! S.M.) SEVEN CHARGES Kevin Moana Jarden. 32, • unemployed, charged with burglary of and setting fire

.to the office premises of a, 'Christchurch legal firm on: I Monday was remanded in ! custody, without plea, to June 29 i The defendant was. (charged with breaking and: entering the premises of R. :A. Young. Hunter and Company at 79 Hereford St; with) : wilfully setting fire to the I .office premises of this firm,! ‘and with threatening to kill! Detective Sergeant Roy PowOther charges faced by! 'the defendant include thej burglaries of the premises of. j Challenge Finance. Ltd: Kol-i ler and Koller, Ltd; Blooms! Costumeries, Ltd; and Wood,! Hall, and Company — all in' Hereford Street. The alleged offences oc-j curred on or about June 20 1

■]!and 21. e ' Counsel (Mr W. H. f . McMenamin) said he had! ■j been instructed to seek bail,* , ia surety being available. B ! Detective Sergeant Chada derton stronglv opposed 1 bail. 5 ASSAULT CHARGE A man, whose name was: suppressed in the interim. j was remanded (o July 10 for ;a fixture on a charge of as-! sault. The defendant was! icharged with assaulting a; ’■man in Christchurch on‘ I;March 20. J There was a domestic! ..background to the offence,' rithe Court heard. i INDECENCY CHARGES Rail was opposed by the i police when Christopher; iJohn Goodwin, aged 25. a’ I registered male nurse, ap-; J neared on two charge;; onj :| indecent assault. J However, the defendant! ■: was remanded to June 29 on * 1 bail of $7OO.

Ute defendant was; ! I charged with having in- ’ ' decently assaulted two boys, 1 both under 12. The Magistrate granted i ..suppression - f the names of .the two complainants, but declined to grant interim : suppression of the defend- ■ ant’s name. The alleged offences oc- ! curred in the last two • ! months. TOOK TRAILER Carolina Hannah Stewart, aged 25, a domestic purposes beneficiary, was convicted and discharged on a charge of the theft of a steel trailer, valued at $2BO. Detective Sergeant Chadderton said that the defendant had gone with Stewart J !a man friend to the com-: I plainant firm, McKay Hire, ' ‘ to hire a trailer in which to; ! move furniture. The hirel was for two days but when : the trailer had not been re-! jturned the firm had com-; : plained to the police. The Magistrate said that a I ■ third person charged with j having received the trailer; had already been dealt with. ! Detective Sergeant Chad-! ; derton said the trailer had:_ been taken to an address ini I Christchurch where the defendant’s friend had repainted the trailer and removed the McKay signs and tbe number plates. In these tasks, the defendant had assisted. offensive Behaviour A man who urinated against the side of a building in Press Lane When people were passing by was convicted' and fined $4O. He is Philip Grant Leslie, J aged 21. a cable layer, who; was seen by an employee of: “The Press” urinating; against the wall with an-' other man. He subsequently) ran off along Gloucester! Street and was later seen! getting into a car in Cathedral Square.