Baby left in stolen car

Press, 4 June 1984, Page 1

Baby left in stolen car

PA Auckland Cries of "My baby, my baby" by a woman in a hotel car-park on Saturday evening did not stop a man speeding off in her car with her daughter. Michelie, aged four months, asleep in the back. It was three hours before Mr Michael Fearon and his wife, Margaret, were reunited with Michelle, who was unharmed when the car was found by the police abandoned in a Papakura street. Mrs Fearon, of Paerata, left the keys in the ignition when she called at the Jolly Farmer Inn. Drury, to coi-

lect a friend about 5.30 p.m. On returning to the carpark she found a man in the driver's seat of her car. She shouted, "My baby, my baby,” but the man drove off. "You just think the worst ... we were just lucky that he (the man who took the car) was someone who just wanted a lift to Papakura.” Mrs Fearon said yesterday. "Thank God it turned out the way it has.” The police said that a man. aged 23, would appear in the District Court at Papakura tomorrow charged with unlawfully taking a car.