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Te Awamutu Courier Thursday, March 14, 2019 Home Detention Appealed Te Awamutu ALUMINIUM JOINERY GLASS&GLAZING Te Awamutu YourC community newspaper for over 100 years Thursday, March 14, 2019 07 870 2455 Work wins art award Swap group cropping up A produce-sharing group Australian deportee’s portrait earns people’s choice has cropped up in Te Pahu¯. Crop Swap provides the opportunity to swap excess BY DEAN TAYLOR fruit, vegetables, eggs, seedlings, herbs, baking or It was almost a year ago preserves for something exactly we introduced artist someone else has brought Heather Campbell, who was along. taking part in Waipa¯ District Libraries’ Artists at Work series. Te Pahu¯CropSwapisat Heather had recently Te Pahu¯Preschool on returned from New South Wales Sunday, March 17 from to live in Te Awamutu and was 9.30am to 10am. showcasing her collection called The Te Awamutu branch Mug Shots — portraits taken of Crop Swap meets at from Australian police photo- Mahuika House, 114 Downes graphs of female offenders from Street on Sunday, March 17 the 1920s that she had brought from 2pm to 3pm. home. This year she added one Time for you important piece to the collection Every second Monday is a — the first full figure oil painting time for Te Awamutu parents called Deported, Sydney 1929, to relax and socialise. which last week won the Gordon Time4U meets at St Harris People’s Choice Award at Andrew's Presbyterian the Waikato Society of Artists Church from 9.30am to New Zealand Painters and 11.30am. Printmakers Annual Awards. The group of parents meet Her prize of $750 worth of art supplies from Gordon Harris The up regularly to hear from a Art and Graphic Store will allow guest speaker or do baking, her to buy brushes and quality cooking or craft activities. paints. Babies are taken care of The subject of the work is by women from the church. Marie Louise Aubin, and as with The next Time4U meet-up all her subjects, Heather had is on Monday, March 18. read the background story to For more information gain an insight into life and contact Georgina on 021 721 hardships at the time. She says 107. that allows her to imagine the clothing, colours, skin tones, etc, Fashion show to create a portrait. Te Pahu¯Women’s Institute Marie was in Sydney for less is hosting a fashion parade of than a year when she was pre-loved garments at the Te arrested and charged with 20 Pahu¯Hall on Wednesday, counts of being idle and dis- March 20 at 7pm. orderly and obscene behaviour The parade will include — code for prostitution. preloved garments, which will Heather says it was custom- ary for police to give a dictation be for sale. test on the street and anyone Entry is $10 for adults and with an English language prob- $5 for children, with all lem was identified as an illegal proceeds going to St John’s immigrant. op shop, Te Pahu¯School and Marie, however, had her wits Te Pahu¯Preschool. about her and asked for a lawyer, There will also be supper but this was refused and she was Te Awamutu artist Heather Campbell with her popular work Deported, Sydney 1929. Photo / Dean Taylor and music at the event. deported, although when, and For more information where to, was not recorded. “There’s a lot of me in this of Marie’s story. lic. Heather says there is a ‘deep contact Maree on 07 825 Heather says the stories of work.” She says her work was the pool’ of resources for Mug Shots, 9015. violence against women, and The award works are accom- only traditional portrait in the but she is keen to also work with unjust treatment and imprison- panied by a 50 word narrative, show, but obviously the artwork live models and she undertakes ment, are personal to her. which Heather used to tell some and narrative spoke to the pub- commissions. RRP Safe, Easy DIY Chimney Cleaning $199 The SootEater • No climbing on roof system includes... 8x quick-connect • Anyone can do it 3-foot flexible rods (7.3m total) • Attach to hand drill 1x ‘Trim to fit’ chimney whip. 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Wellington on Tuesday for a hearing in A pre-sentence report writer also [email protected] which the Crown argued his sentence assessed his risk of reoffending as high. should have been stricter — involving a Brook said it was hard not to think the [email protected] jail term. Dylan Cossey in the dock at the Hamilton judge had “tailored” the sentence to allow The family of three of the victims were High Court on April 20, 2018 facing a home detention term, because she did [email protected] also in court to listen to the hearing. sentencing as the driver involved in not want to see Cossey go to prison. Justice Anne Hinton earlier found that illegal street racing resulting in four She said it would be rare for the Court although a jury decided Cossey was guilty deaths. Photo / Natalie Akoorie of Appeal to send someone to prison in [email protected] of illegally racing and causing the deaths such circumstances, but this case was one of four people, the driver of the other car only had the judge understated how in which the “sentencing exercise was — Lance Robinson — was more culpable serious the offending was, but that she miscarried so badly”, that it should be [email protected] for their deaths. had also compounded that by “overstating done. Paul De Silva, 20, and Lance Robinson, the mitigating features”. Taking into account the sentence 28, both of Te Awamutu, Hamilton woman “The Crown doesn’t say that a judge already served, the minimum sentence Hannah Leis Strickett-Craze, 24, and can’t ever take a merciful approach . the the court should impose would be three Jason McCormick Ross, 19, of Stratford Crown says, rather, that such an approach and a half years in jail, she said. died in the crash. simply wasn’t available on the facts of this Defence lawyer Philip Morgan QC said A van driver who was seriously case.” on reading the sentencing notes it was injured has name suppression. She argued despite the fact Robinson clear the judge focused on all the matters Crown prosecutor Duncan McWilliam was more culpable, Cossey had spurred mentioned by Brook. [email protected] pushed for a jail term, and although him on during the race and at times would He said focusing on the four deaths as Justice Hinton described Cossey’s driving have been driving faster than Robinson the main principle, rather than the level of decision-making as immature and stupid, was. culpability, went against what the English she said he did not cause the crash on Brook said Cossey was driving in courts have said to do. O¯ haupo¯Rd, near the Hamilton Airport. breach of his licence conditions and he He said Robinson was going faster and The judge said Cossey’s sentence was had a history of doing so. was the one in the wrong lane. not about revenge for the deaths but of “Mr Cossey has demonstrated a gen- The judge was also correct in assessing We’re online at nzmecommunitynews.pressreader.com denouncing his behaviour and a long eral disregard for the road rules, which Cossey as being genuinely remorseful, he prison sentence at his age would are designed to keep the public safe.” argued. unjustifiably derail his future. The judge “completely overlooked” the The Court of Appeal judges have 2016 Crown lawyer Charlotte Brook said not totality of the harm caused. reserved their decision. We Sell Farms INFORMATION FOR Peter Wylie has strong connections within the farming community in the King AS SOON AS PARENTS AND GUARDIANS Country/Waipa areas. 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