Perjury charge remands

Press, 5 August 1980, Page 4

Perjury charge remands

Two persons charged with] committing perjury while: witnesses at a drug hearing) in March were each further! remanded without pleas to! August IS when they ap-i peared before Judge Paterson in the District Court: yesterday. ' Bail was continued for, both Joro Suleiman Yarn-' basef, aged 26, a hairdresser, ; jand Shirley Grace Mitchell, ;aged 49, a manageress. I Mitchell faces one charge 'of perjury and Yambassf Three charges. ; Counsel (Mr S. G. Barker), .; jwho appeared for both: I defendants, said the remand’ ;was sought as he wished to i obtain notes of evidence) from the Court and them take further instructions. | Neither defendant pleadedil to the charges. . 'I

] The alleged offences are ; said to have taken. place on ■ March 7. ; DRUG POSSESSION. | A man, aged 19, who : admitted possessing lyser- : gide (LSD) — a class : A-controlled drug — was [convicted and remanded on .bail of $750 to August 11 for a probation report and 'sentence. v . :>•■” Detective Sergeant M. ■Wright, said that, at 11.15 p.m. on July 26, the defendant, Martin Ellis, unemployed, was stopped by a police patrol in Tuam Street. : He gave his wallet to the police and in it was found eight tablets of LSD, Sergeant Wright said. ■ Ellis (Mr J. S. Halls) had I told the police that he had i bought the drug for $4B at a 'hotel.

)i It was ;for his own use tjand said he .wanted it be- | cause he had not tried it before. i . • INDECENCY CHARGE . A man, aged 44, charged i with, indecently assaulting a ; girl, aged seven, was reI'manded without plea to i August 18. I The alleged offence was i said to have taken place on , August 1. The defendant, who was ■granted interim suppression 'of his name, was allowed •: bail of $750 with a surety of ‘the same amount.’ As a condition of bail the judge ordered that the i defendant stay away from I the complainant and her family. I During the remand period , a psychiatric report is to b® obtained on the defendant.