$15,000 bail on charges of disfiguring

Press, 8 January 1980, Page 8

$15,000 bail on charges of disfiguring

Bail totalling $15,000 was fixed by Mr N. L. Bradford, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, when he remanded Shane Piripi Turner on injury and disfiguring charges, allegedly committed against, two people. Turner, aged 25, a forestry worker, was appearing on charges of disfiguring Ati Putauru with intent to cause him grievous bodily harm, and injuring Gordon Maurice Ellery with intent, on January 5. The Magistrate remanded Turner, without plea, to appear on January 14 on bail of $5OOO, with two sureties, of $5OOO each. . Police opposed bail for Turner, as they did for Barry Kiwihakiwha Williams, aged 22, a forestry worker, who was charged with assaulting Gordon Maurice Ellery on January 5. He was remanded to January 14, on bail of $2OOO with one surety of the same amount. 16 CHARGES David Gordon Fraser, aged 24, unemployed, appeared on 13 charges of false one of taking a personalised cheque book with intent to obtain a pecuniary advantage, one of theft of a car valued at $2OOO, the property of Hillview Motors, and one of the attempted theft of a bicycle. The false pretence charges involved his alleged obtaining of a total ■ of $lBB5 in cash and goods by the issue of cheques from the personalised cheque book in the name of N. P. Carpenter. He was further remanded in custody, without plea, until January 14, for the setting of a 1 fixture date.

Pleas of not guilty were entered on all charges. RECEIVING CHARGE

A labourer charged,with receiving goods to a total value of $2321 was further remanded in custody, without plea, until January 14. The property, which included 252 pairs of slippers, belonged to Elite Enterprises, Ltd.

Muir was also charged with breaking and entering the Stanmore Road premises of this firm, and with unlawfully taking a 1962 car. THREAT ALLEGED Joseph Dennis Ward, a sickness beneficiary, aged 35, who appeared on six charges, including one of possessing a knife under circumstances that showed an intention to use it to .commit an offence involving ; bodily injury, or the threat or fear of violence, was remanded for the third time to reappear on January 14.

Ward also faces two charges of assaulting women, one of threatening to kill one of them, wilfully damaging two windows to the value of $lOO, and resisting a constable in the execution of his duty. ‘ The Magistrate said, this was the final remand without plea for Ward, after

Ward’s counsel explained that the charges had arisen out of a domestic disagreement and that Ward was now “living together again’’ with the complainant in the matter. NEW YEAR OFFENCES A young Christchurch woman who smashed a cardoor window with a stone, then climbed through the window and prepared to go to sleep, at Kaiteriteri early on New Year’s Day, admitted three offences. The defendant, Ngaire Giles, aged 20, unemployed, faced charges of using insulting words in the Kaiteriteri Motor Camp, wilfully damaging a car-door window valued at $4O, and unlawfully getting into the car, owned by Peter Arnold North! She was convicted and remanded on bail to January 14 for sentence.

Sergeant K. J. Humdell said that at 5 a.m. on January 1 the defendant was seen by Mr North to pick up a stone and throw it through the driver’s door window of his car. .

She then climbed through the window and prepared to go to sleep. Help was sought to remove her but because of the difficulty experienced the police were called. The defendant used the most obscene and insulting language to anybody in the way, and was un-co-oper-ative, Sergeant Hurndell said. “PENCHANT” FOR CARS

“You seem to have a penchant for taking cars,” the Magistrate told Robbie James Marino, aged 20, a parks and reserves employee. Marino pleaded guilty to unlawfully taking a motor ca" valued at $l2OO, the property of John William Needham, on December, 15. The Magistrate convicted and remanded Marino to appear for sentence on January 14, noting that Marino had unlawfully taken eight cars in 1977 and had unlawfully got into another car in 1978. DRIVING, ASSAULT CHARGES A soldier, Tai Roberts, aged 28, was remanded without plea to January 14 on two driving charges and a charge of assaulting a constable The charges were of driving a car on Papahui Road on January 4, when the proportion of alcohol in his breath exceeded 500 micrograms per. litre; refusing to accompany a constable to the Central Police ‘Station when requested; and assaulting Leonard Orr John Miller, a constable, in the execution of his duty. ARREST WARRANT

A warrant was issued for the arrest of George Patrick Shannon, aged 41, unemployed, who failed to appear on a charge of being drunk and -disorderly in Worcester Street on January 4,