

Teone Matthew Ropata, 36, shearer, of Ohai, was sentenced to 150 hours' community work and ordered to pay $40 reparation and $600 emotional harm reparation for assaulting a person at Ohai on March 13. Wade James McLaren, 20, was sentenced to nine months' jail when he appeared for sentence for assaulting a man on October 8 and breaching his release conditions on December 9. Tyrone James Watson, 24, was sentenced to nine months' intensive supervision, disqualified from driving for six months and ordered to pay $914.69 reparation for intentionally damaging a motor vehicle in July, breaching release conditions on April 5, driving with a breath alcohol level of 467mcg on July 13, assaulting a female in May, threatening to injure with intent to intimidate, assaulting a female and trespass at Nightcaps in June. Trainor will also appear for sentence for disorderly behaviour, resisting and assaulting police on February 16, burglaries and taking a digger valued at $50,000 on March 2, and breaching community work on January 13. The man was left with grazes to his elbows, back and head.

The boy went inside a house and when his father emerged to tell the pair to leave, they threatened him and attacked him, the court was told. Police prosecutor Sergeant Penny Stratford said Trainor was on an Invercargill street with an associate when they began taunting an autistic boy playing in a nearby yard.

Michael Paul Lyn Trainor, 17, was remanded to June 7 for sentence for injuring with intent to injure on March 11.
