An attempt to mend a fence and stop a pony escaping has earned a 26-year-old Wanganui man a second conviction.
Christopher Dillon Young pleaded guilty to one burglary charge in Whanganui District Court yesterday.
He had a pony that kept escaping. Then a person suggested he use some wood that appeared to be abandoned to mend the fence, and he did so.
Young thought the person had authority to offer the wood. But he took it without being sure who owned it, his lawyer Anna Brosnahan said.
District Court Judge David Cameron noticed Young had a previous prison sentence for dishonesty. He had pleaded guilty to a charge of being unlawfully in a building.
