October 07, 2008

Teen robbery accused faces driving charges

More charges have been laid against a 17-year-old schoolboy charged with two bank robberies last week.

John Anthony Fraser, of Spreydon, has spent a week in custody on remand since his arrest and he was today further remanded to Friday at the request of defence counsel Elizabeth Bulger.

She made no new application for bail for the youth charged with using an imitation Glock pistol to rob one bank teller of $700 and using it assault a woman teller at a second bank with intent to rob her.

He has entered no plea to these charges from September 29. He now faces a charge of causing a vehicle to ?undergo sustained loss of traction? ? wheel-spinning ? on the same day in Brougham Street.

Police have charged him with careless use in Matipo Street two days before that and failing to stop and ascertain injury after an accident. No-one was hurt in the crash.

The police say the imitation Glock was actually an airpistol.

Fraser?s parents were in court for his brief remand appearance before Judge Michael Crosbie in the Christchurch District Court today.