Home detention for prison smuggling
A 48-year-old man who tried to take drugs and a SIM card into the Christchurch Men’s Prison was sentenced to home detention and told any loyalties he may have had were misplaced.
Timothy John Roberts was sentenced in the Christchurch District Court on charges of taking 1.2g methamphetamine, cannabis, and a SIM card into prison, possession of methamphetamine, and possession of cannabis from that offending, and also intentional damage to a door, receiving, and unlawful possession of a knife.
On the possession of a knife he was convicted and discharged and Judge Jane Farish ordered the destruction of the knife.
Judge Farish said she would sentence Roberts to home detention, but if he got back into his old ways he would go back to jail. She said she was going to judicially monitor him, with three monthly reports.
She sentenced him to seven months’ home detention with special conditions to attend and complete programmes recommended by his probation officer, including a course to help him to think through the consequences of his actions.
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