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Allegations of Sexual
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A plan hatched to accuse an
associate of an assault that never happened has backfired on a teenager. William Lawrence Bennett, 18, of
Masterton, pleaded guilty to charge of making a false statement to police
when he appeared in the city's district court yesterday. Bennett, currently serving a sentence
of supervision for his role in the killing of Masterton's prized talking
cockatoo, was convicted over the false statement and ordered to come up for
sentence if called upon within six months. Bennett had given a written
statement to police on September 25, alleging he had been beaten up and
naming his attacker. Two months later, Bennett admitted
to police that he made up the story, saying he devised the plan out of anger
because his victim had got away with something for which Bennett had been
blamed. |
