Abduction charge

Press, 9 April 1980, Page 4

Abduction charge

A youth charged with attempting to abduct a 15-year-old girl appeared in the District Court yesterday. The youth, aged 19, who was granted interim suppression of name by Judge K. W. Frampton, also faced a charge of assaulting the girl and of driving while disqualified. The Judge remanded him on bail of $750 and one surety of $750, without plea,, to April 22. Counsel (Mr N. R. W. Davidson) said that the girl had been going out with the youth. ~FALSE CHEQUES Seven charges of passing false cheques totalling more than $620 were admitted by an unemployed painter.

William David Earnshaw, • aged 27, also pleaded guilty ■ to a charge of stealing a van valued at $2150, of stealing a i colour television valued at . $1147 and of failing to report , to a probation officer. ■ The Judge convicted Earn- • shaw on the charges and remanded him to April 15 for i a probation report and sen- > fencing. ( On nine charges of false pretence and to a charge of . stealing a $950 car and a [ compressor valued at $2OOO, , the Judge remanded Earnshaw to April 15 for a defended hearing. The defendant pleaded not ; guilty to these charges. j All the alleged and adr mitted offences related to incidents iff TokOroa, Auckland,

Taupo, Wellington, Lower Hutt and Nelson between November, 1978. and January, 1980. Earnshaw was remanded in custody. He also faces a further charge of driving while disqualified. FORGERY CHARGES A cleaner, aged 26, was allowed bail of $5OO and one surety of $5OO and remanded to April 15 when she appeared on charges of forging cheques and acting on them. Helen Diane Adams is charged with forging a cheque for $B5O on March 18 and one for $2OOO on February 21. She is also charged with presenting the cheques as genuine documents. No pleas were entered.