Brother and sister risk jail for use hire robbery

A hermit and sister have any been remanded in control for judgment after revelation an early-morning spoliation of a Havelock North use station.

Appearing in Napier District Court on Friday were William Valentine, 29, and Renee Valentine, roughly 28, both of Hastings.

Each had formerly pleaded guilty after usurpation a judgment denote of illusive home apprehension relating to events that Judge Geoff Rea pronounced were “about as distant down a scale as we can get” when it came to a operation of aggravated robberies.

There was accepted to have been small or no formulation for a events that happened early in a morning of May 26, a preface to a spate of dairy, use hire and bar robberies that have tormented Hawke’s Bay given cigarette and tobacco cost boost were announced about 12 hours later.

Each had been postulated bail within days of their detain though had been in a control heading adult to Friday’s coming since of breaches of a conditions of their bail and other matters.

Reminding them that while they had been told they could get home detention, Judge Rea pronounced a starting indicate for calculating their sentences when they subsequent seem on Nov 22 will still be prison.

“You’ve finished about all we can to plod it adult yourselves,” he said.

Hawkes Bay Today