Man-with-no-name remanded on bail
A man who appeared to believe he had no identity posed some extra difficulties at the Christchurch District Court today and had to be told to be quiet in the dock.
Mark Tony Bradford, 39, of Balcairn, North Canterbury, kept referring to himself as “we” as he stood in the dock on a trespass charge.
He told Judge Raoul Neave that he had given his identity away. “I don’t want anything to bother New Zealand any more,” he said.
He refused to enter any plea on the charge of trespassing at the Rangiora WINZ office yesterday. He would not answer to his name.
He asked in court how he was supposed to live when “the people who are supposed to be administering our welfare” would not talk to him, and “we only have 55 cents in the bank”.
He said he had not received a trespass notice, and Judge Neave told him it could be issued orally.
He demanded to know who was representing the Crown and Judge Neave told him the police were prosecuting.
The judge told him to be quiet when he kept talking and refused to co-operate.
Because of his refusal to plead, Judge Neave entered a not guilty plea and remanded him on bail to a case review hearing on March 10.
When he was let out of the dock, Bradford refused to stay and sign his bail papers so the police took him back into custody while that was done.
“Why am I still being treated as a criminal?” Bradford demanded.
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