SUPREME COURT INCIDENT
PRISONER’S RECORD CHALLENGED COMMENT BY JUDGE (P.A.) AUCKLAND, September 20. The accuracy of a prisoner’s police record was challenged in the Supreme Court to-day when Thomas Turner, aged 58, came before Mr Justice Callan for sentence on an indecency charge. Mr Winter, appearing for the accused, said the prisoner could not agree with the police report that he had 18 convictions for drunkenness. He remembered only one such conviction, and thought he had been confused with another prisoner of the same name. The report also gave his age as 64 years. His Honour commented that the description in the report said the man had an angel and other marks tattooed on his left forearm, and other marks on his right arm. The prisoner at this stage took off his coat and bared both his arms, showing the right arm free of marks, and the left with a woman tattooed not on the forearm, but above the elbow. “There has been some muddle. I think they have mixed up two prisoners, and credited this man with someone else’s identity,” said his Honour. “I want it explained how this error occurred. It should not have occurred.” The prisoner was remanded until Tuesday.
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Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24677, 21 September 1945, Page 3
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