Magistrate's Court Remand on charge of manslaughter

Press, 19 August 1978, Page 4

Magistrate's Court Remand on charge of manslaughter

A student, aged 18, who appeared in the Magistrate's Court in Christchurch yesterday on a charge of manslaughter was remanded on bail of $750, with a surety of $750, to August 25, by Mr K. W. Frampton, S.M. The student, whose name was suppressed in the interim, was remanded without plea. Counsel (Mr R. J. Robinson) told the Court that a psychiatric examination had been arranged for his client. The student was charged that by an unlawful act he shot and killed Darryl Colin Timpson, thereby committing manslaughter. ' Darryl Timpson, aged nine, was shot dead in a flat in Percy Street, Linwood, on Thursday afternoon. The student was arrested after an eight-hour inquiry by a team of detectives. Sergeant R. H. Prouting had no objection to the defendant’s being granted bail but asked for a surety, CHEQUE OFFENCES Dallas Susan Boag, aged 20, unemployed, was convicted and remanded to August 25 for a probation report and sentence on 14 charges

of false pretence involving $525. Sergeant Prouting said that the defendant, who pleaded guilty to all the charges, had opened a cheque account at a bank in March. Between July 10 and July 27 she had presented 14 cheques, to a total value of $525, knowing that the account contained insufficient funds to cover them.

In explanation, Boag had told the police she thought the bank would have allowed her account to be overdrawn.

Sergeant Prouting said compensation of $332 was sought, together with an order for the return of recovered property, but counsel said that the defendant had made compensation in full. ARMS CHARGE A man charged with carrying a .22 calibre starting revolver without a lawful or proper purpose was remanded on bail to August 25 without a plea being entered. He is Charles Eria Pakai, aged 37, unemployed, who is

alleged to have committed the offence on August 10. Pakai was also remanded to the same date on a charge of purporting to be a security guard when not licensed as such. This alleged offence also was on August 10. No plea was entered. FORGERY CHARGES

A young woman who appeared on three charges of forgery involving $3115, and a charge of incurring a debt for $243, was remanded without plea to August 25. She is Jennifer Kay Warner, aged 20, an unemployed receptionist, who is alleged to have committed the offences in Christchurch during July. DRUG CHARGES Jeffery Graeme Weston, aged 22, an artist, was remanded in custody to August 22 for the taking of depositions when he appeared on three charges laid under the Misuse of Drugs Act.

He is charged with having cannabis leaf in his possession for the purpose of supply, with having the same

drug in his possession for ths purpose of sale, and with manufacturing cannabis oil. The alleged offences occurred in June and August. BOAT BURGLARY A youth who was convicted on a charge of breaking and entering a fishing boat at Lyttelton on August 11 was convicted and fined $lOO. Andrew Wallace McQueen, aged 17, a storeman, admitted the offence.

Sergeant Prouting said that the defendant and a companion had gone to Lyttelton where about 2.15 a.m. they had boarded the fishing boat Snark. After looking about the deck they had entered the wheelhouse where they had found two seamen’s jackets. Their presence awakened the master, who had been sleeping aboard. The two youths dropped the jackets and left hurriedly. Counsel (Mr M. J. Glue) said it had not been a deliberate, planned burglary but more in the nature of a drunken prank, the defendant had been drinking for

several hours beforehand. During the evening the defendant had found himself to be a passenger in a car going to the port, counsel said. He admitted having gone with his companion on board the ship “out of curiosity” without any intention of taking anything.

It had been while the two were trying on the seamen's jackets that the master of the ship had appeared "bearing a large knife which had caused the two to leave the ship most abruptly.” Mr Glue said the alarm at seeing the ship’s master so armed had in itself been a salutary lesson to the defendant. (Before Mr I, Hay S.M.) ROGUE AND VAGABOND Jeffrey William Leechi, aged 18, a lifter, was given a deferred sentence of 18 months on a charge of being a rogue and a vagabond. Last week Leech denied! the charge of being a rogue and a vagabond in that on July 6 “he had frequented the shelter near the Armagh! Street gates of North Hagley Park with felonious intent.” At the defended hearing the court heard that two sisters, one aged 12 and the other 11, had told their mother about having seen the defendant several times at the shelter-shed. The younger girl had said she saw the man expose his genitals.

Counsel (Mr K. N. Hampton) said yesterday it was most unlikely that the defendant would appear before any court again on any charge. The Magistrate also ordered that Leech pay $7O towards the cost of the prosecution.