Home detention for robbery getaway driver
A woman who said she regretted ever getting involved in an incident with Christchurch’s smiling bank robber, Timothy Daniel Whelan, has been given a 12-month home detention sentence.
Sian Elizabeth Starling, 22, an option, had pleaded guilty to the armed robbery charge, after admitting that she had driven Whelan to the bank and had wiped his fake bomb clean of forensic evidence.
Whelan, 22, has been given a two year four month jail term as the principal offender in the robbery of the ANZ bank in Woolston 13 months ago.
Defence counsel Elizabeth Bulger said at the sentencing that Starling regretted getting involved.
Christchurch District Court Judge Paul Kellar noted Starling was a first offender and had pleaded guilty, before imposing the home detention sentence. She has already been given a first strike warning.
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