Selwyn Times: August 01, 2018
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SELWYN TIMES Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
Wednesday <strong>August</strong> 1 2<strong>01</strong>8 13<br />
Jail for dog park crash driver<br />
Convicted<br />
killer gets<br />
15 months<br />
A CONVICTED killer who<br />
crashed through the Rolleston<br />
dog park fence after a high speed<br />
chase has been jailed for 15<br />
months.<br />
John Oliver Jamieson, 31, was<br />
sentenced on Thursday in the<br />
Christchurch District Court on<br />
driving charges and unlawful<br />
possession of a .22 rifle and<br />
ammunition found in the car at<br />
the end of the June 2 incident.<br />
Jamieson was jailed in 2009<br />
for nine years for manslaughter<br />
for the death of Wayne Kerry<br />
Bray, who was kicked to death in<br />
a group street assault in Timaru<br />
the previous year.<br />
He was also found guilty last<br />
year of threatening to chop<br />
his wife’s head off during an<br />
argument over the telephone.<br />
On Thursday, his lawyer Paul<br />
Johnson said Jamieson had<br />
written an “insightful” letter<br />
of apology and accepted that<br />
methamphetamine was the<br />
issue for his rehabilitation. He<br />
had already contacted Odyssey<br />
House about the possibility of a<br />
rehabilitation placement there.<br />
But Judge Brian Callaghan said<br />
the Court of Appeal had said<br />
that the courts should impose<br />
sentences that showed society’s<br />
condemnation on those who had<br />
firearms unlawfully.<br />
Judge Callaghan said Jamieson<br />
had been gravely affected by<br />
PHOTO: BARRY CLARKE<br />
the death of his mother last<br />
year and his behaviour had<br />
changed when he started using<br />
methamphetamine again.<br />
The court heard on June<br />
2 Jamieson drove on State<br />
Highway 1 towards Burnham, at<br />
180km/h while overtaking other<br />
cars in a passing lane.<br />
Police followed him with<br />
their sirens and lights on, but<br />
IMPACT: John<br />
Oliver Jamieson<br />
(above) has<br />
been sentenced<br />
to 15 months<br />
jail following<br />
his crash into a<br />
Rolleston dog<br />
park fence on<br />
June 2.<br />
he crossed the double yellow<br />
lines into the south-bound lane<br />
to overtake other north-bound<br />
cars.<br />
He remained on the wrong<br />
side of the road until the end of<br />
the passing lane, still travelling at<br />
high speed.<br />
He turned too fast into Tennyson<br />
St, Rolleston, and went off<br />
the road, across the grass area<br />
of the BP service station, and<br />
narrowly missed the KFC sign,<br />
before going back on the road.<br />
At the junction with Lowes<br />
Rd he went onto the wrong<br />
side of the road again, around a<br />
roundabout the wrong way, hit<br />
another car causing minor<br />
damage, before leaving the road<br />
and crashing into a dog park<br />
fence.<br />
Police found a firearm in<br />
his car and charged him with<br />
driving dangerously, driving<br />
while disqualified, failing to stop<br />
for police, driving recklessly,<br />
driving carelessly, and unlawful<br />
possession of a pistol – a sawn off<br />
.22 rifle.<br />
Jamieson pleaded guilty on<br />
July 9 to charges of driving<br />
dangerously, driving while<br />
disqualified, failing to stop<br />
for police, driving recklessly,<br />
driving carelessly, and unlawful<br />
possession of the rifle.<br />
Judge Callaghan also imposed<br />
18 months’ disqualification from<br />
driving on top of his current<br />
term – he won’t get his licence<br />
back until May 2020.<br />
The judge also ordered him<br />
to pay $1035 reparations to the<br />
<strong>Selwyn</strong> District Council for<br />
the damage he did to the dog<br />
park.<br />
Will Springston Primary retain the Kea Trophy?<br />
As Schools return to their hard work – Lincoln<br />
Envirotown are hoping that many of them will<br />
find some time to “Focus For Future” and<br />
complete their productions to The <strong>Selwyn</strong><br />
Environmental Film Competition.<br />
Last year it was won by a group of Springston<br />
Primary students whose excellent puppet<br />
eels showed us the threats they face in our<br />
waterways.<br />
The competition is open to all and we look<br />
forward to entries from individuals, high<br />
school groups, clubs and others as we have<br />
seen in previous years.<br />
It is an enjoyable way of doing one’s bit for<br />
the Environment.<br />
Any combination of animation, video or slides<br />
can be used to deliver your environmental<br />
message. Films which have been made for<br />
other purposes can be entered providing<br />
they satisfy the criteria of the competition.<br />
Entries close on <strong>August</strong> 31st and the Awards<br />
will be presented at an “Oscar like” ceremony<br />
on Friday September 14th. All the films will be<br />
shown and there are different category prizes<br />
with the Kea Trophy as the ultimate goal.<br />
For more details and to register go to<br />
Eventbrite<br />
https://sefilmcomp.eventbrite.co.nz<br />
Alternatively anyone who wants to enter<br />
can contact Dave<br />
e: projectmanagerlet@gmail.com<br />
p: 03 4230445
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