THEFT OF £75
FORMER CONSTABLE SENT TO PRISON ■ (New Zealand Press Association) HAMILTON. September 17. A former police constable, James Sweeney, aged 31, of Hamilton (Mr N. I. Smith), was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment by Mr S. L. Paterson, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court at Hamilton today. Last week Sweeney pleaded guilty to five charges of stealing a total of £75 10s. the property of the Government, and one of stealing a .32 calibre revolver valued at £2 10s, also the property of the Goernment The Magistrate said that the accused had not only been in a position of trust where a high degree of honesty and integrity was required, but had also been a police officer. /‘These facts, together with the nature of your offences, theft, forgery, and the theft of lethal weapons which you sold for your own profit, and which might in the future be put to lethal uses, possibly against your foriner comrades in the Police Force, preclude probation,” said the Magistrate. He said he had attached all the weight he could to the accused’s war service and health, and felt that he must impose. a sentence of three months’ imprisonment on the first charge. On the remaining charges, the accused was convicted and discharged.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27148, 18 September 1953, Page 11
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