Youth remanded
PA Wellington A youth who caused $3OOO damage to a shop said he wanted to be arrested so he could see friends in prison, the police told the District Court at Wellington. John Paul Hardy, aged 17, unemployed, pleaded guilty to intentional damage, assault, and using obscene language. Judge Laing remanded him in custody until March 16 for sentence. The prosecutor, Sergeant Max Grey, said that at 10.30 p.m. on December 31 Hardy kicked in two panes of glass in the door of a shop at Paeka-
kariki and hurled stones at other windows; !He was drunk. Hardy said he broke the windows so he could be arrested and see, friends in prison. The cost of repairing the [ windows was $3OOO. On November 30 Hardy was in Upper Hutt, and was spoken to by the police because |?|ie was drunk, Sergeant Grey said. Hardy became aggressive and kicked a sergeant in the groin. He walked away shouting the words complained of. More court news page 6
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Press, 25 February 1987, Page 4
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