Woman jailed on bank charges

Press, 11 October 1979, Page 22

Woman jailed on bank charges

PA Auckland A Takapuna woman has been imprisoned for two years and a half on charges relating to the attempted robby and robbery of two Milford banks in September. Pauline Anne Gilmore, aged 33, an unemployed nurse aid. admitted a total of five charges when she appeared in the Magistrate’s Court at North Shore. Mr J. H. Murray, S.M., convicted and discharged Gilmore on a charge of stealing a fish knife from a Milford hardware store on September 27, and escaping from Carrington Hospital on September 28. He sentenced her to two years and a half jail on charges of demanding

money with menace on £ September 28, and at- j> tempting to rob the Milford ? branch of the Bank of £ New South Wales on Sep- !► tember 27. The Magistrate also t sentenced Gilmore to two • years and a half jail for £ the robbery of the Milford J branch of the Bank of jr New Zealand on Septem- , her 27 in which $2BOO was taken. The sentences will be i served concurrently. A charge of aggravated £ robbery was withdrawn J and a charge of attempted r aggravated robbery was i reduced to one of at- I tempted robbery. -J The Magistrate recommended that Gilmore receive medical or psychiatric treatment while serving the prison sentence.