West Coast<\/a> messaged him about it and, after negotiations, they agreed on a price of $8000.<\/p>\nShe made an initial payment that day of $4000 directly to Turner\u2019s bank account.<\/p>\n
The next day, September 13, Turner requested the remaining $4000 be transferred into his account because his vehicle had broken down and he \u201cneeded the money\u201d, police said.<\/p>\n
The woman transferred the balance, then asked about the location of the cabin for collection.<\/p>\n
Turner told her the cabin was stored at an address in Kaiapoi, and that he was being charged $150 a day by his landlord to store the cabin there, which meant he had incurred $750 in fees she would need to cover.<\/p>\n
The woman paid the money, despite Turner not being charged by his landlord for storage, police said.<\/p>\n
Because the cabin was in a location where the woman was unable to collect it, Turner told her he could get the cabin moved to an area on the street where it could be picked up.<\/p>\n
He said it would cost $600 because of the fee incurred by the company he planned to use to shift it.<\/p>\n
She paid the money into his bank account, and Turner then used his landlord\u2019s vehicle to move the cabin at no charge or cost to himself and kept the $600.<\/p>\n
Hireworx then contacted Turner last November to say the cabin would be collected the following week.<\/p>\n
Turner said it had already been collected and asked them to stop contacting him.<\/p>\n
He was later arrested and charged.<\/p>\n
Judge Snell said Hireworx retrieved the cabin from the woman who had bought it off Turner, but was down $3760 because it needed to restore the cabin a complete state.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt does not account for all of the difficulties they had having to track it down and not getting paid by you,\u201d Judge Snell said in ordering reparation of $9350 to the woman and $3760 to Hireworx.<\/p>\n
He urged Turner to address the causes of his offending, and to stop \u201cdrifting\u201d and make something of himself.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet this be the turning point and just get on with changing your life around, get yourself a job, move ahead.<\/p>\n
\u201cOffending in this way will always get you caught, and it will always see you suffer in the end,\u201d Judge Snell said.<\/p>\n
He would now monitor Turner\u2019s file to ensure he repaid \u201cevery cent\u201d of what was owed; otherwise, he would be resentenced and sent to prison.<\/p>\n
Tracy Neal is a Nelson-based Open Justice reporter at NZME. She was previously RNZ\u2019s regional reporter in Nelson-Marlborough and has covered general news, including court and local government for the Nelson Mail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cYou advertised. You knew what you were doing and you went down the track, including exploiting [the victim]…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1863,45721,4057,3239,45719,24369,1349,14768,13989,2082,28950,78,38862,1073,91,111,43,139,69,19719,2744,1653,23384,667,1461,5161,1857,1072,3235,107,210,61,413,45720],"class_list":["post-53742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-back","tag-bargain","tag-behind","tag-buyer","tag-cabin","tag-cent","tag-court","tag-every","tag-fell","tag-for","tag-hired","tag-in","tag-joshua","tag-media","tag-nelson","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-ordered","tag-pay","tag-payments","tag-portable","tag-sales","tag-scam","tag-sentenced","tag-site","tag-social","tag-sold","tag-then","tag-through","tag-to","tag-turner","tag-unwitting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}