Student left trail of bounced cheques
PA Auckland A student left a trail of 67 bouncing cheques round the South Island, the District Court at Auckland was told.
Judge Maxwell told Grant Reid, aged; 22, of Kingsland, the only thing that saved him was that he had since repaid the $7768 involved.
He sentenced Reid, now employed as a mechanic, to four months periodic detention.
Reid admitted 67 charges of obtaining goods by writing out the false cheques between March 7 and March 21 last year when he was a student in Christchurch.
A former flatmate, said to have shown Reid how to “make a fast buck” by opening cheque accounts with false identification, had already been dealt with by the District Court at Christchurch.
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