Magistrate's Court Ten in court after raid by police

Press, 26 August 1978, Page 5

Magistrate's Court Ten in court after raid by police

Six men and four women appeared in the Magistrate’s Court in Christchurch yesterday after a police raid on a Wainoni house on Thursday night. All faced charges under the Gaming and Lotteries Act and two faced drug charges. Mr J. S. Bisphan, S.M., refused suppression of name in each case, and the defendant s were remanded without piea. Amounts of bail ranged from $BOO to $lOOO ~Ruth Lilian Malmo, aged 47, and Gavin Edgar William' Kinsman, aged 49, a sickness beneficiary; were charged with organising games of crown and anchor, and unders and overs at Kinsman's house at Pannell Avenue. Jsusan Sheryl Malmo, aged 17, a solo mother, and Louise Dorothy Kapeli, aged 20, a domestic beneficiary; were charged with possessing cannibis, and Kapeli with possessing a pipe. Both: were charged with being on the premises without reasonable excuse. Ronald David Terris, aged 43, an unemployed driver;! Murray Eric Hardaker, aged; 37, self-employed: and ( Ci.ristopher Ray Field, managing director; were charged’ With assisting in the games, . Gay Colleen Terris, aged 33, a general hand: Reuben James Lewis, aged 25, a driver; and Brian Albert; Cantwell, aged 50, a greyhound trainer and rubber worker; were charged with being present without reasonable excuse. Gay Terris and Ronald Terris were remanded to! September 5; and the other defendant’s to September 1. FIXED $lOO Dallas Susan Boag, aged: 20, who appeared for sen-; tencing on 14 charges of; fraud, was fined $lOO on one charge, and ordered to pay $lO costs on each charge. She had earlier pleaded: guilty to all charges. Counsel (Mr D. J. R.| Holderness) said that the defendant had made full restitution She had thought it was; acceptable to have an overdraft at the bank where she had an account. She had

first written a cheque for $lOO for the hire of a rental car after a car in which 1 she and some friends were travelling had broken down,| said counsel. He said that when Boag‘ returned to Christchurch she had written more cheques on an empty account because she had wanted to go with her friends to Australia. , FURTHER REMAND A student charged with; manslaughter was further: remanded to October 9 fori the taking of depositions.; The youth, whose name was suppressed, is alleged to! have shot and killed Darryl Colin Timpson. REMAND IN CUSTODY ' A man charged with; threatening to do grieyious bodily harm to Murray Flint; Marshall, on August 24, was! remanded in custody without! plea to September 1. He is Maxwell Carlton

■ Carney, aged 53, a sickness 'beneficiary. DAMAGE CASE ; Kerry Raymond Gardiner, • i aged 24, unemployed, was (convicted on a charge of ; damaging a plate-glass wini dow in Worcester Street, 11 valued at $2OO. < He was remanded on bail i to September 8, for a probation officer's report and sen-! ; tence. > SQUIRTED PATRONS A youth who squirted 'foam from a fire ex- . j tinguisher at patrons of the ; I Geraldine picture theatre i was convicted of behaving; in a disorderly manner in a; public place. He pleaded! I guilty. David George William! iHuria, aged 17, a factory; 'worker, was fined $4O. li ATTEMPTED THEFT Allen William Findlay, ; aged 26, a sickness beneficiary, was convicted

on a charge of attempting to steal a national superannuation payment order worth $87.48. The Magistrate remanded h Findlay to September 8, for a probation report and sen-; tence. DETENTION ORDER Te Ariki Kiki Kokiri, aged' 18, an unemployed labourer,! was sentenced to four! months periodic detention.! He was convicted of trying to alter a payment order with intent to defraud the Social Welfare Department. (Before Mr P. J. McAloon,! S.M.) FORTUNE-TELLER ' A housewife who charged $lO for telling a police ; officer his fortune, was con- 1 victed and discharged. I]

She is Maureen Fay Ellis, aged 44. Counsel, Mr P. J. Rutledge, said his client saw her activities as a form of social work. “I am satisfied that there was no intent to break the law and that no great harm has been done,” said the Magistrate. ; BURGLARY, THEFT A youth convicted on one charge of burglary, a charge of unlawfully taking a motor vehicle, and seven charges of theft, was sentenced to six months residential periodic dention, to be followed by 12 months probation. He is Alan James Jones, aged 16, unemployed. The Magistrate ordered him to Ipay $l7l restitution.