A man accused of burgling Gisborne’s Zambrero Restaurant twice in one night and twice burgling a beauty business a few days earlier, is on bail again.
After being arrested for the alleged offences in October, Aidan Wesches, 40, was initially granted simple bail. However, he breached it and was remandedinto custody.
The issue was revisited on Monday in Gisborne District Court and Judge Warren Cathcart granted Wesches electronically-monitored bail.
The case is on hold while the court waits for specialist health reports for Wesches, who is understood to have significant mental health and cognitive impairments.
Bail conditions imposed by the judge permit Wesches to leave his house for exercise for up to two hours daily but only if accompanied by one of two authorised supervisors.
Wesches is scheduled to appear next in court on January 8, next year.
He faces two counts of burgling the Bright Street restaurant overnight on Sunday, October 15, and two counts of burgling Pretty Nails and Beauty, in Gladstone Road, overnight on Wednesday, October 11.
News of the burglary at Zambrero attracted high public interest after the couple who own the business told The Gisborne Herald the loss caused — $13,000 in stolen stock and cash and three days of lost trading — could mean they have to downsize and make redundancies.
