Penalty ‘to make it hurt’

Press, 15 October 1986, Page 4

Penalty ‘to make it hurt’

Saying that the penalty should “make it hurt,” Judge Bisphan in the District Court yesterday fined Brent Roland Isherwood, aged 25, a driver, $l5OO on a charge of receiving a previously stolen video recorder. Isherwood had pleaded guilty to the charge of receiving the video, valued at $l5OO, from a person or persons unknown, at Woodbourne, between October 13 and 24 last year. The Judge noted that Isherwood had a previous conviction for receiving stolen property, in 1982, and said he should know the error of his ways. Sergeant F. S. Wood said the video had been reported stolen from the room of an airman at the R.N.Z.A.F. base, Woodbourne. The video was later found in a bedroom occupied by Isherwood. He told the police he had bought the unit from an unknown person in a suburb of Blenheim. He said he. had answered an advertisement in a store* in Woodbourne in | October last year, while' he was em : ployed in the airforce.