PENAL SERVITUDE
COMMANDO SENTENCED (Rec. 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 21. Alter a court-martial, Trooper John Eric Wilson, a commando, aged 24, was sentenced to 10 years penal servitude for voluntarily helping the enemy by joining the British Free Corps, of which he was stated at one time to be in complete control. Leonard Banning, aged 37, a British school teacher, who was stated to have taught in Berlin before the war, pleaded not guilty at the Old Bailey to charges of assisting the enemy by making propaganda records and broadcasting. The prosecution said that Banning at the outbreak of the war tried to return to Britain but failed. He was imprisoned, and after release agreed to broadcast for the Germans.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AG19460122.2.38
Bibliographic details
Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 86, 22 January 1946, Page 3
Word Count
120PENAL SERVITUDE Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 86, 22 January 1946, Page 3
Using This Item
Ashburton Guardian Ltd is the copyright owner for the Ashburton Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Ashburton Guardian Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in