Fists and bottles in brawl

Press, 4 June 1988, Page 4

Fists and bottles in brawl

Fists and bottles, were used in a brawl between gang members at the Club Tavern Bottle Store, in Sydenham, on Thursday evening. No one was seriously hurt in the fight, which occurred about 7.20 p.m. in and around the bottle store. The police said three Mongrel Mob members were in the bottle store and six members of Black Power pulled up in a car. The police stopped the car a short distance away from the bottle store after the fight. No arrests have been made. Inquiries are continuing, Woman approached An approach to a woman outside the Xanadu night-club, in Kilmore Street, late on Thursday evening is being treated by the police as an attempted abduction. The woman managed to set off her car alarm and the offender fled. The police said she left the night-club shortly before midnight and walked to her vehicle in the car park. She got in the driver’s seat when a Maori man approached and opened the door. He -told her to mnup nnd warned her. he

had a knifed The woman then managed to activate the alarm. The offender was about 177 cm (sft lOin) tall and aged about 30. He was wearing a full-length fawn duffel coat. Man gashed A man suffered a gash below his left eye after confronting a burglar at his Waimairi Road home on Thursday evening. The occupant of the house arrived home about 9.10 p.m. and parked his car in the garage. He went around the back to find a burglar carrying a stereo down a stepladder from the sunroom. The burglar shoved the stereo into the man’s face, causing a gash requiring eight stitches. The victim put his hand up to fend off the stereo and suffered two broken or sprained fingers.

A second offender is believed to have fled through a kitchen window. Young girl dies

A girl, aged seven, died when struck by a car on Wainoni Road yesterday morning. She was

Lorna Sarah Conchie, of Wimborne Crescent, Wainoni.

Lorna, a pupil of Avondale School, was struck about 8.25 a.m. She died at the scene.

The Ministry of Transport seeks witnesses to the accident, which occurred between Portsmouth Street and Breezes Road.

The car was heading north-east at the time, towards New Brighton.