SERIOUS OFFENCES
SIX YEARS’ IMPRISONMENT WITH HARD LABOUR
(PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.)
AUCKLAND, May 25
A sentence of six years’ imprisonment with hard labour was passed by Mr Justice Fair on Frederick Mornson aged 54, for indecent assaults on a boy. In 1932 the accused was sentence to three years’ reformative detention for a similar offence. “It seems that nothing can be said to palliate these offences, which were continued over a period of four months,” said his Honour. “An exemplary sentence must be imposed.” Accused was sentenced to two years imprisonment on each of three charges, the sentences to be cumulative.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21792, 26 May 1936, Page 18
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