Community work

Press, 23 September 1980, Page 4

Community work

A man who admittei stealing his mother's welfan cheque, was put on proba tion for 12 months ant ordered to carry out 5( ■ hours of community worl when he appeared for sen tence yesterday in the Dis trict Court before Judgt Frampton. Terence Kumi Hemi, aged 35, unemployed, last week said he originally took the cheque as a joke on his mother. ’ Counsel (Mr J. Halls) said the defendant obtained nc financial benefit as he gave the cheque to his sister tc cash and let her have the money. The sister had already been dealt with by the Court, he said. As well as community work the Judge ordered Hemi to pay $9B as his share of the compensation sought. DEFERRED SENTENCE A man convicted on a charge of peeping into a

;d house by night where a :e nurse, aged 20 was having a 1- bath, was given a deferred id 12-month sentence. >0 The man, who was grantk ed final suppression of his 1- name, was told that the s- deferred sentence was sub;e ject to his continuing with medical treatment. d When caught, the defendk ant, who at first denied e peeping, had told the police is he got his pleasure and exercise by climbing fences. d To peep through the wino dow behind which the come plainant was having a bath 0 the defendant had to climb a e fence at the rear of the house. y Counsel (Mr N. Dunlop) e said there was a medical ; background to the offence y and the defendant was now d receiving medical treatment, s It was unlikely that any n significant harm had been done to anybody and his a client was not likely to re--1 offend, said Mr Dunlop.