False-teeth snatch costly
PA Dannevirke Pulling the false teeth from a woman's mouth in a tiff in the public bar of a Dannevirke hotel cost a slaughterman $2OO.
Wilson Ahipene-Wall, aged 46, was fined this sum by Judge Toomey in the District Court at Dannevirke, on a charge of assault
The Judge said the circumstances were unusual.
The fine was not the only pain for the defendant — M was ajso bitten.
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Press, 6 March 1984, Page 6
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