Charges likely
Charges are likely to be laid as a result of a youth’s having suffered an electric shock from a fence round a goldfish pond at Opawa on Monday, the police have said. Conway Van Der Lee, aged 17, of 25 Tabart Street, suffered bums when he tried to rescue a dog which had been killed by the electrified fence. Mr Van Der Lee was discharged from the Christchurch Hospital on Wednesday.
e The police are now waiting sto interview the injured c youth’s who is on a holiday in the Netherlands, n Mr Van Der Lee is not ex1. pected back for a month. d The three-strand electric "- fence, erected to prevent d dogs and cats from scooping d fish from the pond, had been d connected to a power main. It was not left permanently ;- “live,” and was believed to ;- have been switched off when i- the accident occurred, a police spokesman said.
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