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Christchurch woman jailed for planning to rob her own bar

Author
Newstalk ZB Staff,
Publish Date
Fri, 13 Jul 2018, 4:14PM
The Fitz sports bar in Christchurch where duty bar manager Joanne Francis Smith organised for knifemen to launch armed raids. (Photo / Facebook)
The Fitz sports bar in Christchurch where duty bar manager Joanne Francis Smith organised for knifemen to launch armed raids. (Photo / Facebook)

Christchurch woman jailed for planning to rob her own bar

Author
Newstalk ZB Staff,
Publish Date
Fri, 13 Jul 2018, 4:14PM

Jail for the Christchurch bar manager who arranged for the establishment where she worked to be robbed - twice.

Joanne Smith has been sentenced to six years three months.

As well as the two robberies of the Fitz Sports Bar, Smith took part in the robbery of the Law Courts Hotel in Dunedin with her son Joshua Smith.

He was sentenced to five years when he appeared alongside his mother in the Christchurch District Court today .

Almost $80,000 was stolen in the two raids on the Fitz Sports Bar in July and October last year.

 

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