A Jamaican immigrant who delivered a Christmas card to a bank
teller with notes containing threats to kill her family and
blow up the bank has been jailed for three years five months.
Paul Martin David Williams, 34, was sentenced yesterday in
the Wellington District Court, The Dominion Post reported.
Williams had pleaded guilty to two charges of threatening to
kill, one of threatening to harm property and one of
demanding to steal.
Williams, who had no previous convictions, attempted to rob
the National Bank on Featherston Street in central Wellington
on December 9 using a Christmas card addressed to a teller,
which he asked a passerby to deliver.
Police were called and an area of the central business
district was cordoned off for more than five hours while the
building was searched, but no explosives were found.
Williams fled to Sydney, where he was arrested at the airport
as he was about to fly to Canada on December 17, and
extradited back to New Zealand.
He originally entered New Zealand on a two-year working visa.
Bookmark/Search this post with:
A name, residential address, and (preferably residential) telephone number is required from readers who comment on ODT Online. These details will not be visible to site visitors.