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Two more convictions for making
bomb hoax calls were entered against Lynette Shirley Kerr (48) when she
appeared in the New Plymouth District Court yesterday. The latest offences -- one
directed at the Countdown supermarket and the other against New World --
brought her bomb hoax tally to nine. Prosecuting Sergeant Malcolm Greig
said customers had to be evacuated from Countdown and the doors closed for
more than an hour after the latest hoax last month. Defence counsel Paul Keegan told
Judge Robert Murfitt that sending Kerr to jail would have little impact on
her offending. Kerr had already been sentenced to
10 weeks' jail earlier this year for the same offences and had offended on
her release. Mr Keegan said the offending was a
way of stress relief for Kerr. Judge Murfitt convicted Kerr and
ordered her to come up for sentence if called upon in the next nine months. "You are becoming a pain in
the neck and you have to stop doing this," he said. * FORMER New Plymouth woman Maria
Christina Zavos (48) denied making a false rape complaint when she appeared.
Now living in Hamilton, Zavos was remanded on bail for a status hearing on
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