Prisoner’s wife fined

Press, 23 August 1984, Page 14

Prisoner’s wife fined

PA Auckland A woman who took drugs to her husband in Mount Eden Prison was fined $250 when she appeared in the District Court at Auckland for sentence. Fay Judith Davies, aged 25, a housewife, of Onehunga, earlier pleaded guilty to a charge of trying to deliver 19 pills to Peter William Davies on July 27. The Court had heard that Davies visited her husband in Mount Eden Prison where he was awaiting sentence on a charge of manufacturing morphine. She took him a bag of clothing which contained a pair of jeans with tablets taped to the inside. Davies told the police she just wanted to help her husband as he had said he was having trouble sleeping. Defence counsel, Mr John Beech, said Davies’ husband told her it would be easy to take the pills in and that she would not be caught. Judge Blackwood said it was a serious breach, but he accepted that her motives were perhaps those of a loyal wife to a person she regarded as a loyal husband. He fined her “with some reluctance.”