Youth wanted school to burn
PA Dunedin A youth who set fire to a pile of papers at Taieri High School in Mosgiel, last week, told the police he hoped the school would have caught fire. Peter Grayson de Blecourt, aged 17, a labourer, pleaded guilty to nine charges when he appeared before Mr J. D. Murray, S.M., in the Magistrate’s court at Dunedin yesterday. Michael John Harris, aged 17, unemployed, also pleaded guilty to nine charges, and Derek John Pennington, aged
i 17, unemployed, to one charge. i De Blecourt and Harris i pleaded guilty to a charge of , wilfully setting fire to the ■ administration block of the : Taieri High School, three charges of breaking and . entering, one charge of theft , and four of wilful damage. Pennington pleaded guilty I to a charge of breaking and , entering. He acted as a : look-out outside the school, said Sergeant M. W. Holmes. I The youths, who were rep- . resented by Mr P. J. Lanigan, were remanded to Thursday ' for probation reports and I sentence.
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