Defence lawyer John Fraser said Brown had no recollection of the hospital incident. “He realises it was an absolute silly, stupid act,” Fraser said. Judge Bernadette Farnan sentenced Brown to six months’ community detention and nine months’ intensive supervision with a daily curfew, ordered him to pay $738 for Mann’s broken glasses and disqualified him from driving for four months. Because of a broken ankle Brown could not do community work, so Judge Farnan ordered him to make a $250 donation to a driving offenders course, and Brown would also have to do a drug and alcohol assessment as directed by probation.
Creed Perkins, 19, entered a not guilty plea to a charge of failing to stop or ascertain injury or death after a crash when he appeared in the Invercargill District Court on Tuesday. Defence lawyer Tanya McCullum said Perkins had not elected trial by jury, and it would be dealt with at a judge-alone trial. Perkins was remanded to reappear on June 14. Another man, 22, with interim name suppression, is charged with excess breath alcohol causing death and a charge of failed to stop or ascertain injury or death after a crash. The man’s appearance in court on Tuesday was excused.
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Police search for items of interest outside the Gladstone Night ‘n Day store in Invercargill, following an aggravated robbery in which a person was stabbed.
“It all went very wrong, very fast, when a member of the public entered the shop and tried to play hero.” Those are the words of a man who took part in the armed robbery of an Invercargill Night ‘n Day, where an intervening man was stabbed. The 38-year-old Invercargill man, who has name suppression, was sentenced to three years and eight months in jail for aggravated robbery, wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and two theft charges, after the July 30, 2020 incident.
They had an argument, Lake went into the master bedroom and sprayed the bed with aerosol deodorant. Lake lit it with a cigarette lighter resulting in ignition with the inner sprung mattress of the bed,” Stratford said. The mattress and bedding caught fire, an area about 40 centimetres by 15cm, exposing the inner hollow of the mattress. In the immediate area were layers of bedding, and nearby were curtains, exposed wallpaper and wooden joinery, flooring and furniture, Stratford said. The defendant s sons entered the room and raised the alarm. Lake tried to put out the fire which was ultimately extinguished by the victim.