Shop assistant sentenced

Press, 3 April 1980, Page 5

Shop assistant sentenced

A shop assistant con-, victed of stealing goods and cash, totalling $744, from his; employer, was sentenced to] four months periodic deten-i tion by Judge J. S. Bisphan) in the District Court vester-; day. Counsel (Mr P. R. Van -Rij) told the Judge that compensation in full had been paid to .the employer, John Bull Cycles, Ltd, by the defendant, Tony Maxwell Stanton, aged 22.

Last week Stanton ad-i mitted stealing cash amount-, ing to $lB7 and tools and! toys worth $587 from the) cycle shop where he was' employed. I Mr Van Rij said Stanton,: who had previously been un-[ employed, had needed money to meet his domestic commitments. EXTRA TERM Pauline Anne • Gilmore, aged 32, who was earlier convicted of escapirig from

■ i the Christchurch Women’s ; Prison, had three months I:added on .to her existing d prison term of two years and ;)a half. ! Counsel (Mr C. D. Eason) ■said that Gilmore had tried > to give herself up at the Central Police Station, but ' had left because of a long queue at the watchhouse. Gilmore, he said, had only , been at liberty for three ■ hours. i Mr Eason said she had had

psychiatric problems for i many years. j An inmate with whom his .client had become friendly ihad been released from priison and this had depressed Gilmore, said Mr Eason.