Student sat exam. for another

Press, 6 September 1980, Page 4

Student sat exam. for another

A high school boy, who sat and pissed a School Certificate English examination for a younger person, appeared in the District Court yesterday. Russell Grant Marryatt. aged IS, was discharged without conviction for representing himself as another person to obtain a qualification for that person. Judge Ryan ordered Marryatt to pay prosecution costs of $4O. ■; Detective Sergeant M. Wright told the Court that Marryatt had passed School Certificate English in 1978. He had admitted sitting the examination again in November, 1979, because the younger. person was afraid of failing the paper. He had obtained 66 per cent success. Counsel (Mr G. M. Brodie) said that Marryatt had been enrolled in the English

course in 1979, but did not have to sit the examination because he had passed the previous year. 1 The younger person had been in a slow leirners’ class at school. On the morning of the examination he had been overcome with nerves and had panicked. Marryatt had foolishly offered to sit the examination for him. The younger person had a poor academic record and since leaving school hadfailed to find a job although! he had applied for. many. ’

I The rJudge told; .Marryatt i that he would not convict I him on the charge because [his academic prospecuAvere good. ,■ -.. I BURGLARY > Two men appeared on a charge of burgling the Tai iTapu Golf Club on August 123. i Tony Allan Munro, an ■ unemployed welder, aged ' 25, I was,- convjcted and remandeq on bail of $5OO and a daily i reporting clause toeS.eptcmber 12 for sentence. ' I Joseph . Lane Ruka, a timber contractor; aged 29, tyas remanded in custody to September 10. 7', | Sergeant- Wright 7 said, that police had -searched the I Munro property and found three 18g ,kegs missing from the club, .Soft drinks anfi potato chips, to a total value of $3OO,- were also taken from the dub.’'? • 7 < 7

I BURGLARY I Two men accused of bur- ■ gling a central- city tool [shop were renianded to September 12 on bail of - SSOO each and a daily reporting clause. . ' ' Peter Alan Rockhouse, unemployed, aged 39, and Peter William James, a sickness beneficiary, aged '2B, allegedly broke into Megson’s Tools and Equipment, Ltd, about ,8.30 p.m. on Thursday. t' REMANDED - ‘A Kaiapoi man charged

I with attertipted rape was reI branded ’in J Custody to • Sep* itember 8 without plea. ■ ■ Jonah ■ Lee ;Cook, aged: 38, ja sickness- beneficiary; is-al-lleged to have tried to rape .a ■woman oh September 4. SUPRESSION | ' The name .of a man accused ’of taking $5OOO of a .pipe band’s .funds for hi§ iown use, was suppressed. The' ’man;' a .store "clelrk, I aged 59. is alleged to have ; taken theX. money ’between June, J 979, . and April, 1980. The money was supposed to have been deposited in a bank-account:? Vi." The mao was refhanded without .plea to September 12. on bail'of -$lOOO. y CHARGES DENIED A janitor,- aged 27, accused,. of indecently assault* ing a. girii.’aged.; 13, was remanded on bail to October 3 for a defendedthearing. Brian George- McAllister will also def-end a '.charge of assaulting. Constable Alan Nicholas Curnow..;,’ " J Another njari, Timothy Francis Q’Brien, is. charged withattempted - in* decent assault., on the gifts He is also charged with assaulting Lynette Joyce O’Brien and : ipclssessihg an offensive weapon —ra mach* ette — with/the; intention of using .it to db; bodily harm... ;; O’Brien, serviceman; aged 28, was remanded with* out plea to September 12. y