NSW: Chopper thief intended to return it, court told

AAP General News (Australia)
02-05-2009
NSW: Chopper thief intended to return it, court told

SYDNEY, Feb 5 AAP - A former police officer who stole a helicopter from a Sydney airport
always intended to return it, but was delayed due to bad weather, his lawyer says.

Mark Cavanagh, from Port Macquarie on the NSW mid-north coast, had pleaded guilty to
breaking into the helicopter hangar of Lia Colbert, at Bankstown Airport, and stealing
an ex-military Kiowa chopper on April 26 last year.

On May 7, Cavanagh advised Taree police he had taken the helicopter and told them where it was.

Cavanagh's lawyer, Peter Hamill SC, told a …