Judge gives shop-lifter final warning

Press, 13 April 1989, Page 16

Judge gives shop-lifter final warning

With what he described as “some misgiving” Judge Frampton decided against a prison sentence for a woman involved in a $7OOO fraud, and six charges of shop-lifting. In the District Court yesterday he sentenced Annemarie Elizabeth Exeter to periodic detention for six months. In addition she was put on probationary supervision for 12 months. The Judge noted that her file would now contain a final warning. Because it was unrealistic, the Judge made no order for the $7OOO compensation sought. Exeter, aged 21, a domestic purposes beneficiary, had earlier been convicted of conspiring with others to defraud a bank by presenting a cheque in which original details of the name and amount had been chemically erased. After depositing the altered cheque into her cheque account Exeter withdrew $5OOO. She handed this to a man who gave her, and an associate, $5OO. The next day Exeter withdrew $2OOO which she split with her female associate. The six shop-lifting offences took place in March. Counsel, Mr John Appleby, said his client had

been assessed as having psychiatric problems in addition to being a registered drug addict. Exeter was willing to make reparation but at the rate of $5 a week it would take her 28 years to pay it off, he said. The defendant had a 19-month-old baby to care for and Mr Appleby asked that she be given a final chance and be left in the community. CORRECTIVE TRAINING A corrective training sentence given to a man who stole a $2OOO car which he sold for $2OO. Anthony Paul John McDonald, aged 18, unemployed (Mr Gary Col lin), committed the offence on October 18. last year. He had also been convicted for possessing cannabis. DRUG OFFENCE Seventeen small but well-tended cannabis plants found growing in a dog kennel, and a further five plants growing in a shed, resulted in Anthony David Woolfe being fined $4OO. The plants were discovered when police searched Woolfe’s home, on an unrelated matter, at 9.15 a.m. yesterday, said Sergeant Colin Campbell. Woolfe, aged 28, unemployed, told the police the drug was for his own use.