Woman admits being get-away driver
A 20-year-old mother has admitted being the get-away driver for two dairy robberies.
Larissa Rose Stevens pleaded guilty to two charges of aggravated robbery in the Christchurch District Court today.
She drove Jesse Mana-Roy Kahu and Claudia Jade Francis Martin to the Hoon Hay Special Dairy on August 31, and waited in the car while the armed duo tried to rob it of cash, tobacco and cigarettes. They were fought off by the dairy owner and a customer, who both sustained injuries, and left empty handed.
They ran back to the car, and Stevens drove them to Selwyn Street Dairy, where she again waited in the car.
There Kahu and Martin took cigarettes and tobacco, and removed money from the till. The shop keeper at that address was not injured.
Kahu, 22, and Martin, 20, have already been sentenced and were each jailed for four years three months.
Defence counsel for Stevens, Rupert Glover, said he had placed a psychiatric report on the court’s file to be taken into account at her sentencing.
Judge Brian Callaghan read Stevens the three strike warning for repeat violent offenders, and remanded her on bail for sentencing on April 6.
He requested that a pre-sentence report to include Stevens’ suitability for a home detention sentence, and a victim impact report, be prepared for the sentencing.
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