Hooligans In Suva
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“Snooker Gang"
prtVE Fijians charged on four JL 1 counts of assault appeared m the Suva Court mid-July. They were Taito Roba (sentenced to 15 months’ gaol), Manasa Nau 1 u (fined £5) Isimeli Nadiri (two years’ gaol) and Sovita Turaga and Yabaki Vola who were acquitted because of insufficient identification.
The police prosecutor said there were undoubtedly others involved in the crimes in question, but it was difficult to identify all who were involved.
The most premeditated of the
assaults involved the setting of a
pretending g * injured
deluding 6 came 6 akfng in a car, stopped to help the apparently injured man, and were set upon by the Fijians who were in hiding.
Assaults such as this have been put down to the activities of the “Snooker Gang,” although it was not disclosed that the offenders in Court were members of it. The gang consists of a group of Fijian hool£ gans who operate from an up-town kava saloon and they have made Suva residents cautious about walk ing along quiet or poorly lit streets.