Fined for assault

Press, 11 May 1979, Page 10

Fined for assault

Victor Waipanama Tarawa had accumulated enough convictions in the past “to last him a long time,” said Mr F. G. Paterson, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. The defendant, a driver, aged 20, had pleaded not guilty to two charges relating to an incident in Barbadoes Street on May 2. He was convicted and fined $75 on a charge of assaulting Alan Keith Donohue, and was convicted and fined $25 for resisting arrest.

Sergeant C. J. Shanahan, for the police, said Mr Donohue had found another man sitting in the complainant's car in Barbadoes Street. The complainant and the person who had been in the car went into some premises to call the police. The defendant came into the building, asked the complainant what had happened and then assaulted him. The person found in the car joined in the assault. OFFENCES ADMITTED

An unemployed driver pleaded guilty to a charge of receiving a stolen cheque, valued at $345.73, and to a charge of attempted fraud when he attempted to cash it later that day. Albert Kay had told the police he had bought the cheque for $lO from a person in a Hornby hotel, and he had tried to cash it at the Farmers Store in Cashel Street. The defendant was convicted and remanded for a week on bail of $lOOO. BICYCLE THEFTS An unemployed youth who was described as “illiterate, backward and extremely

immature.” was convicted and released on probation for 18 months when he ap* peared on three charges ol stealing bicycles. Arthur John Elliot, aged 17, had pleaded guilty to offences which occurred in December, 1978, and January and February of this year. The Magistrate was told that the defendant had stolen the bicycles from a numbet of locations around Christchurch and had then sold them to a city dealer for a sum well below their real value.

The dealer had called the police and the defendant had been arrested. He had changed his original plea of not guilty to one of guilty. For the defendant, Mr M. J. Glue said that he had had “few advantages and considerable limitations” throughout his life.

STUDENT FINED A Waikato University student, in Christchurch for the Students Arts Festival, was convicted and fined $75 on a charge of possessing cannabis. Peter Francis Young pleaded guilty to the charge, which related to an incident in the early hours of yesterday morning. Sergeant Shannahan said the defendant was seen to throw something under his car, and when it was recovered, it was found to be two cigarettes. The car was searched and 12 “deals” of cannabis were found. The total weight was 70gm.

The defendant had told the police he had grown the cannabis for his personal use.