News - Cranbourne - 11th February 2016

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Back to burglary By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS BARELY two months after release from prison, a man has been charged with burgling Casey Grammar School and a home, breaking into a car and trying to break into another home in Cranbourne early on 7 February. During a bail hearing the following day, John Hockhing, 29, denied the home-related offences - aggravated by the residents being home in each case. According to a police summary handed into Dandenong Magistrates’ Court, Hockhing had been released from jail on 23 December 2015 after serving the full term of a two-and-a-half-year jail sentence. His “extensive” criminal history included armed robbery, aggravated burglary, recklessly causing injury, handling stolen goods, possessing ice, possessing a dangerous article and failing to answer bail. During his hearing, he stared at arresting police officer Detective Senior Constable Nicole Spinks of Casey CIU. From the dock, he asked her: “You f ... ing smirking at me?” Police allege Hockhing admitted to stealing a laptop computer and mobile phones from Casey Grammar School’s main office in Cranbourne East about 6am on 7 February. The accused had allegedly entered the school through possibly unlocked front doors, and was chased by a security guard about 6.45am. His girlfriend’s car keys were found on the school grounds; the girlfriend said that Hockhing had borrowed the car overnight, which he had fitted with an allegedly stolen rear number plate. Sometime that morning, he was accused of rifling through living-room cupboards and kitchen containers, and stealing a canvas bag and personal documents from a home in Childers Street. He was also accused of unsuccessfully trying to break-in through a bedroom window of a home in Sladen Street. About 8.30am, a “sweating and agitated” Hockhing allegedly broke into a Toyota Yaris parked on the front lawn of a residence in Cameron Street, about 700 metres from the grammar school. Continued on page 4

Student farm bigger and brighter LIAM and Sarah with their big, bright smiling crop of sunflowers at Hillcrest Christian College’s farm, which is set to grow. Pigs and cattle will soon be added to their stud of beloved lambs. For more on the impressive student run farm, turn to page 12. Picture: GARY SISSONS

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