False pretence charges admitted

Press, 21 November 1979, Page 4

False pretence charges admitted

A 19-year-old logging contractor who admitted 15 charges of false pretence involving $l4OO has been convicted in the Magistrate’s Court and remanded to November 26 for a probation report and sentence. Peter Gerard Sugrue, who committed the offences in Christchurch and in the midCanterbury district, was allowed bail of $lOOO. Sergeant M. P. Caldwell said in July, 1978. Sugrue began working for himself. He had bought a truck and was engaged in transporting firewood. The defendant had opened a bank account which he

had used properly until March this year when it went into over-draft although no overdraft arrangement had been made with the bank. On November 4, as a result of police inquiries into the passing of the valueless cheques, Sugrue had admitted the offences. He had said in explanation that he had needed to use the cheques to keep his business running and had hoped that money would eventually come in when he would then be able to make good the cheques he had issued said Sergeant Caldwell.