Youth told to pay pensioner compensation

Press, 13 June 1984, Page 4

Youth told to pay pensioner compensation

Compensation of $487 was yesterday ordered to be paid to an elderly pensioner by a youth convicted of stealing items, to a total value of $l4OO from her home. Judge Hattaway told Adam Mark Timms, aged 18, unemployed (Mrs P. M. Fee), in the District Court that he was concerned that he, Timms, had burgled the home of the pensioner who was his next-door neighbour. On the charge of burgling the house in Tensing Place on May 18, he sentenced Timms to periodic detention for four months. The compensation was to cover the cost of unrecovered property. Timms had stolen a television set, worth $BOO, from the complainant. He had later sold it for $5O because, he told the police, he wanted some money. BURGLARY CHARGES Bail was opposed for an unemployed man facing 10 charges of burglary all committed within a 15-day period. Raymond Mark Hill, aged 18 (Mr K. J. Grave), denied all the charges. He was remanded in custody to July 31 for a de-

fended hearing. In seeking bail, Mr Grave said his client was a day patient at Mahu Clinic and did not agree to a remand in custody.

Sergeant Cleland said bail was opposed because of the number and the seriousness of the offences. Property valued at about $lO,OOO still had to be recovered. Because Hill refused such a long stay in custody, he will be brought to court each week until July 31. THREE BURGLARIES Neville John Hill, aged 20, a sickness beneficiary (Miss E. H. B. Thompson), admit-

ted three charges of burgling homes in Opawa Road, McCauley Street, and Selwyn Street from which property valued at $3600, was taken. He was convicted and remanded on bail to June 26 for a probation report and sentence and also, at the request of council, a psychiatric report. The burglaries took place on May 20, 23 and 31. CHARGE DENIED A man charged with delivering two white tablets to an inmate at Addington Prison, denied the offence, said to have occurred on June 11. Jason Patrick Bourke, aged 18, unemployed (Mrs D. Orchard), was remanded at large to July 20 for a defended hearing. BURGLED MUSEUM Three break-ins at the Canterbury Museum last month were committed by a woman, aged 18, because, she told the police, she had been off work for a week and needed money, said Sergeant G. G. Cleland. Donna Marie Dixon, a labourer (Mr M. J. Glue), was convicted of breaking into the museum on May 6, 7 and 14.

She was convicted and remanded on renewed bail to June 26 for a probation report and sentence. Sergeant Cleland said that on each occasion,

Dixon, in the company of others, had smashed the glass in the front doors to gain entry. On the first occasion she broke open a donation box and took $4O. The second time $239 was taken from the main reception area, and the last time she decamped when an alarm was activated. Compensation of $268 was sought from Dixon.