Prison for ram-raid

A 23-year-old has been given a year's jail and will have to pay $4000 to the Christchurch City Council and a car owner after a parking meter ram-raid that would have netted him $68.50.

Eifion Jeffrey Davies will pay only about half of what the council wanted for the damage and losses after he backed a four-wheel-drive vehicle over the meter in Kilmore St and tried to take the cash.

The unemployed Hornby man had unlawfully taken the vehicle and will have to pay $2000 for its damage.