Shooting at Chicken Inn
PA Dargaville A man who bought a gun to shoot birds instead shot up the Chicken Inn at Dargaville, the District Court there was told. Kerry William Fowlie, aged 24, a factory worker, admitted seven charges, three of them relating to possessing, presenting, and discharging a firearm. Other offences related to assaulting a traffic officer, failing to stop, and driving
on a footpath. In addition to fines totalling $365 Fowlie was sentenced by Judge Paul to five months periodic detention and 17 months probation. The Court was told that Fowlie had been drinking before he turned up at the Chicken Inn, where he had a meal and had an argument with the inn proprietor over a girl. Fowlie then shot up the inn's neon sign.
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Press, 4 February 1984, Page 9
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