Maximum fine for offal stunt
PA Nelson Judge Patrick Mahony has described an offence committed by a Golden Bay man as “so disgusting so as to warrant no comment.” Charles Robert Ray, aged 27, a bush man, was charged with littering and resisting arrest. Sergeant Peter Grooby said Ray went to a Nelson house where he tipped a 45-litre drum of monthold animal offal, crawling with maggots, on to the owner’s porch. He was found later at a hotel where he resisted
police efforts to arrest him. In his defence, Ray said the act was one of revenge. He said the owner of the house had previously dumped deer legs outside his home. The incident had started as a joke, he said. Judge Mahony convicted Ray on the littering charge and imposed the maximum $5OO fine. On the charge of resisting arrest, Judge Mahony convicted him and fined him $lOO and $55 court costs.
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