Man fined $l5OO for bookmaking

Press, 31 August 1984, Page 10

Man fined $l5OO for bookmaking

A fine of $l5OO was imposed on a freezing worker convicted on three charges of carrying on the business of a bookmaker when he appeared before Judge Fraser in the District Court yesterday. •Philip Graeme Shatford, aged 27 (Mr M. J. Glue), admitted the offences which occurred on June 30, July 7, and August 11. Sergeant W. J. McCormick said a plainclothes police officer had observed bets being placed with the defendant in a hotel bar.

The officer had placed bets with Shatford on each of the three occasions. The last time members of the vice squad went to the hotel and spoke to the defendant. He denied being a bookmaker and taking bets from the officer. Among the $197 in his possession. were two marked $lO notes given to him by the policeman, said Sergeant McCormick. A wallet belonging to the defendant containing $350 was found in the barroom. Mr Glue said that his client was not engaged as a principal and that what the oficer found was only a small time operation. Many hotels had similar arrangements for regular patrons who had difficulties placing bets with the T.A.8., said Mr Glue.

Of the money found in his client’s possession Mr Glue said that some of the money was Shatford’s own, while $2OO was from a sports

group and had been handed to him earlier.

The Judge said the defendant’s assertion that the money found in his possession came from other than gambling was not believable and he ordered that the money seized by forfeited to the Crown. $7500 BAIL

Bail was set at $7500 for Ivan Paul Anning who was convicted on four charges of burglary and two of receiving. Anning, aged 29, a clerk (Mr D. I. Jones), who admitted the offences, was remanded to September 13 for a probation report and sentence.

After a hearing in chambers the Judge allowed Anning bail of $2500 with two sureties, each of the same amount.

The offences took place between September, last year, and this month. Anning pleaded guilty to burgling a foodmarket in Upper Riccarton, from which property worth $2340 was taken, The Farmers’ Trading Company at Church Corner where $4567 worth of property was removed, the Computer Corporation from which three typewriters, valued at $15,000, were taken, and saddles and accessories, worth $9283, were stolen from the Canterbury Saddlery. The two receiving offences involved video recorders. The defendant refused to name the suppliers for fear of reprisals,

said Sergeant McCormick. Unrecovered property was valued at $6879. Compensation sought in respect of the offending was $8509. Damage to the various premises amounted to $1650 and compensation for this was sought. Payouts to the defendant by the undercover officer amounted to $1350 and Sergeant McCormick said this amount was also sought in compensation. Anning’s criminal activities were discovered by an undercover policeman working in Christchurch for the last 15 months. PROSTITUTION CHARGES Charges of offering themselves for prostitution in massage parlours were denied by two masseuses. One woman, aged 28, was remanded to October 4, and another, aged 26, was remanded to September 27 after denying an additional charge of managing a brothel. A woman, aged 24, charged with prostitution, was remanded, without plea, to September 6. Another masseuse, aged 25, facing charges of prostitution, possessing cannabis, and managing a brothel, was remanded, without plea, to September 13. She was remanded to the date without pleading on a new charge of receiving 24 women’s suits, valued at $4BO, the property of Milford Manufacturing. All four defendants were remanded at large, and interim suppression of their names was continued. SHEEPSKINS No plea was entered by a man charged with stealing nine sheepskins, valued at $225. Trevor Gordon Anderson, aged 32, unemployed, is charged with stealing them from his employer, G. L. Bowron, Ltd, between July 1 and August 29. He was remanded on bail to September 6. ASSAULT CHARGE Bail was “strongly” opposed by the police for a man charged with burgling a Hastings Street flat and assaulting a woman, aged

20, with intent to commit rape, on August 8. After two hearings in chambers Judge Fraser refused bail and remanded John Waititi Kupa (Mr P. J. Egden) in custody to September 6. INDECENCY CHARGE A charge of attempting to get another man to do an indecent act on him was denied by a salesman. The defendant, who at the request of counsel (Mr G. H. Nation), was allowed further interim suppression of his name, was remanded on bail of $lOOO to October 16 for a defended hearing. The police say the offence occurred on August 18. FRAUD OFFENCE A man who admitted fraudulently using a taxation document in order to get a $5OOO loan from a finance company, was convicted and remanded on renewed bail to September 13 for a probation report and sentence. The defendant, who at the request of counsel (Mr P. D. Woolley) was granted interim suppression of his name, committed the offence about June 26. Sergeant McCormick said along with other papers the defendant submitted an I.R. 13 tax form with his loan application. He said that he had a salary of $28,000 a year and his own company. Subsequent inquiries

revealed no such company existed and details on the taxation form were untrue, said Sergeant McCormick. It was found that the defendant was in fact on a benefit, he said. Compensation of $2OOO was sought in respect of credit extended by the company. DRUG OFFENCES Stewart Victor Eade, aged 37, a machine operator, was remanded, on renewed bail, to September 13 for sentence on charges of selling cannabis to an undercover policeman, possessing cannabis, a syringe and needle, and unlawfully possessing two firearms. Eade (Mr D. J. Boyle) met an undercover police officer in a hotel and as a result of the meeting he sold the officer three bags of cannabis for $215. The defendant said that he supplied the drugs to the officer who he regarded as a new found friend. When a search warrant was executed at the defendant’s address a small amount of cannabis and a pipe and syringe, were found. A pistol made out of a cut down .22 calibre rifle, and 30 rounds of ammunition, were found when police searched Eade’s vehicle.

A .22 calibre rifle was found in a bedroom when police visited the defendant’s address a second time, said Sergeant McCormick.