Dramas continue over receiving stolen car
A family drama that has played out in court over a father and son’s convictions for receiving a stolen vehicle at their wrecking yard has continued with another adjournment yesterday.
The father, Mark Anthony Louis, 59, was sentenced to community detention, but his son Dean Walter Louis’ sentencing will have to wait four weeks while they find a suitable address for home detention.
The family tensions boiled over in the hours after their trial ended in the Christchurch District Court, when the son assaulted the father – a charge he later admitted in a separate prosecution.
Dean Walter Louis, 27, pleaded guilty during the trial and the father was found guilty by Judge Jane Farish at the end of the trial.
The assault then happened because of a disagreement over the evidence given in court.
Defence counsel for the father, Phillip Allan, said Mark Louis was going to stay in his home, which meant Dean Louis could not serve a home detention sentence there and had to find another address.
Judge Jane Farish remanded Dean Louis on bail to October 30 for an address to be found.
She said the father and son had received a car worth $44,000 at their car wrecking yard, D L Dismantlers, in Yaldhurst, and Mark Louis’ explanation was that he was not aware it was stolen.
Mark Louis was told that it was nothing to do with him and to stay away by his son, and was bullied in his own home by him, but he was “wilfully blind” and knew things were not right, she said.
Judge Farish sentenced Mark Louis to three months community detention with a curfew from 7pm to 6am, and 100 hours community work.
She said he had to pay an emotion harm payment to the car’s owner of $2500, and $2072 to the insurer, AMI.
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