Jail for ‘ghoulish’ thefts
PA Wellington A man watched death notices in newspapers and then, with accomplices, broke into the houses of the dead persons and stole their goods, the Supreme Court at Wellington heard yesterday.
The offences were of a “ghoulish nature,” said Mr Justice Beattie when sentencing Kevin Martin Taylor, aged 31, a mechanic, on a charge of breaking into a house and stealing antiques valued at $lBOO, and a charge of receiving antiques valued at $273.
His Honour said that Taylor was already serving a four-year jail term for possessing heroin and a firearm, and the indications were that the present offences had been committed in a bid to get money for his defence at the previous trial. He sentenced Taylor to another year’s jail on each of the two charges, to be served concurrently, but cumulative on his present four-year term.
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Press, 15 June 1979, Page 2
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