Two sent for trial on attack charges
Two men were yesterday committed for trial in the High Court on charges relating to an attack on a man in a Linwood flat last December. Mark , Wells, aged 22, and Graham John Eyre, aged 22, both unemployed, each face a joint charge of robbing Vernon John Hatcher of | $235 and in doing so causing him
I grievous bodily harm; and i wounding ; Mr Hatcher I with] intent to cause him I grievous bodily harm. Tiie two are also separi ately charged with related I charges of attempting to j defeat the course of jusi ticelby(threatening.a pro- ( spectivd witness, David I John Allan, and of assault- ' ing (him. / ■’/ ■ Wells was represented
by Mr R. G. Glover and Eyre by. Mr B. Callaghan. i : The charges relate toincidents on December 12 and January’ 7. | After a three-day depositions hearing in the District Court, the Justices of the Peace, Messrs C. W. Crawford and J. D. Pansing found there was sufficient evidence to send the two for trial.
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