Attitude brings rapid custody remand
It was about the craziest thing to say to a judge. It has earned Norton Lindsay Adams a month in custody even before gets his sentence for smashing up the Rangiora Police Station and assaulting an officer.
The 22-year-old concrete worker from Spreydon was due to be sentenced for his night of mayhem that happened after he gatecrashed a Rangiora party in January.
Trouble was, he had not co-operated with the Probation Service to get interviewed for a pre-sentence report.
Why not? Judge Raoul Neave wanted to know.
“I haven’t felt the need to,” Adams replied.
There was a stunned pause in court.
“I don’t trust you to make contact with Probation if that’s your attitude,” said the judge.
He also didn’t trust Adams to turn up for his sentencing, and remanded him in custody until August 27 to ensure that the pre-sentence interview and report will get done in time.
“We will see if that changes his attitude.”
Adams was with a group that gatecrashed a 25th wedding anniversary party. Police were called and Adams was arrested walking away from the scene.
At the Rangiora Police station, he tried to fight and was pepper-sprayed, without effect. He then used a chair to smash a wooden table, and used a metal bracket to smash his way out of the interview room to try to get at the police.
Then he smashed a door, spat on every surface he passed as he was brought under control and taken to a cell, and bashed the officer who took him into the Christchurch Central Police station.
That constable received concussion, nausea, swelling around his spine, and headaches.
Adams admitted being unlawfully in a yard – that’s the gatecrashing – threatening one constable, intentionally damaging the police station, and assaulting another constable with intent to injure him.
He was already on a sentence of intensive supervision when all that happened.
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