Receiving admitted

Press, 15 August 1980, Page 14

Receiving admitted

A man who admitted re- 1 ceiving 24 squash rackets to < a total value of $960, -was convicted and remanded onp bail to August 28 for a probation report and sentence? when he appeared before] Judge Fraser in the District] Court yesterday. The defendant, who was granted interim suppression of name, received the rackets, the property of Anglian Sales, Ltd, on or about July 2. Mr D. J. Boyle appeared for the defendant. Sergeant M. W. Atkinson said that on June 21 a shipment was received at ' the freight terminal at Lyttelton consigned to the complainant firm. This included six cartons of squash rackets of a type not previously released in New Zealand. A number were stolen and police inquiries found that

some of them had been sold to a squash club. The defendant said he had received a carton of the rackets from a person who had stolen them. He was to sell

them for $l5 each; in return he was allowed to keep two rackets for himself. Some of these he had sold at a working men’s club. The defendant said he knew nothing about the rest of the stolen rackets. CHARGES DENIED An unemployed man charged with unlawfully entering the Chateau Regency Hotel and with ass'aulting a man in order to escape from the scene of the alleged offence denied involvement. Mark Huia Bain, aged 20, was remanded in custody to September 15 for a defended hearing.

The offences were alleged to have occurred on August 6. THEFT CHARGE Philip Wayne Dey, aged 26, unemployed, was remanded on bail without plea on a charge of theft to August 21. He is alleged to have stolen a compressor, spray gun and orbital sandpr, to a total value of $llOO, the property of Alan Derek Graham. Dey . (Mr J. S. Halls) is charged with committing the offence at Rangiora on or about March 21. DEPOSITIONS Alexander Stephen Paterson, aged 23, a factory worker, was remanded oh bail to September 11 for the

taking of depositions on al charge of robbery. Paterson (Mr M. J. Glue)] did not plead to a charge of robbing a man of $45 cash! and a wallet, valued at $lO,, on July 27. j A co-defendant to the; same charge, Prince Alistair; Walker, aged 18, a labourer,; was remanded without plea to August 20. Bail was renewed for both men who were also ordered to report daily to the police. CHARGE DENIED A woman charged with receiving two diamond rings, to a total value of $1550 denied the alleged offence. Pauline Hiaino Tawha, aged 23, a solo mother, was remanded to September 28 for a defended hearing. The alleged offencei s said to have taken place on August 6. Bail was allowed.

; PERIODIC DETENTION I Graham Michael Nolan, 'aged 23, a process worker, (earlier convicted of being a ’member of an unlawful 1 assembly involving an as- ] sault on an occupant of a J house in Clare Street on [May 24, was sentenced to I periodic detention for five ‘"months.' i Counsel (Mrs D. Orchard) I submitted that her client had only joined the group, which attacked the house, reluctantly and under some pressure as he thought that ’ if he did not they might harm his wife and young son. I Nolan, she said, only reJ sorted to force when, as he [was about to leave the I I house, an occupant came at him with a bottle and he hit I him in self-defence.