Boat parts theft charges

Press, 11 December 1982, Page 4

Boat parts theft charges

A welder formerly employed by C. W. F. Hamilton. Ltd’, was committed for trial when he appeared in the District Court yesterday on alternative charges of theft of jet boat unit parts worth $1919 while employed by the company, and receiving the parts knowing them to have been stolen, and .on a separate charge of receiving a cassette recorder valued at $2999 belonging to' Hornby Television and Audio, knowing it to have been stolen. The defendant, James Lyall McLennan, aged 28, elected trial by jury and denied the three charges. Messrs E. W. Pyle and J. H. Christensen, Justices of the Peace, held there was sufficient evidence to commit the defendant for trial on al! charges. They remanded him on bail to January 21, pending a date for trial in the District Court. Corrtnonf Cl Cl n lain nd nrn_

secuted, and Mr D. C. Fitzgibbon appeared for the defendant. The items allegedly stolen from the defendant’s employer, or received by him after being stolen by an unknown person, comprised three jet unit intake housings, five impellers, a bearing housing and two seal facings, of a total value of $1919. Sergeant Cleland said in outlining the police evidence that the items belonging to his employer were found during a police search of the ’ defendant's garage and car. When questioned he told police that a person he met in a hotel six months before had asked him to store the parts for him. The items were brought to his address the next day. He did not know who the other person was, and no arrangements were made about how long he was to store the parts.

legedly found in a bedroom of the defendant's home and he told police he had paid $2OOO for it, after seeing a newspaper advertisement for its sale. (Before Judge Hay) SHOPLIFTING A young woman was convicted on eight charges of thefts of clothing, worth $353, from shops in the city and Riccarton on October 15. The defendant, Janene Shelley Mcllwrick, aged 23, a solo mother, had denied the charges. Judge Hay remanded her at large to December 21 for sentence. Sergeant Q. C. Jones prosecuted, and Mr G. A. Cameron appeared for the defendant. Evidence in the case had been that the defendant, and two other girls had been apprehended by police in Riccarton. A large quantity of clothing taken from various shops was in bags 'in