PRISON TERM IMPOSED
SHOPBREAKING AND THEFT John Gordon Anthony Shanks, aged 26, a forestry worker, was sentenced to a total of three years and three months imprisonment on six charges of theft, two of shopbreaking and one of converting a bicycle, when he appeared before Mr Justice McGregor in the Supreme Court yesterday. Shanks had appeared for sentence in the Supreme Court on Friday having pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court at Invercargill to the charges. He was further remanded on Friday by his Honour, who said he would take, time to consider the sentence.
“I have given a great deal of consideration to this matter. Most oi these charges are of a very serious nature,” said his Honour. “It seems as if you have been pursuing an antisocial life; you have been before the Court on* 63 charges. “You are eligible for sentence to preventive detention but I am not going to do that because of your age. If you come before the Court again after your release it is, in my view, practically inevitable that yop will receive a sentence of preventive detention,” said his Honour. Shanks was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment on each of the shopbreaking charges, the sentences to be concurrent. For the theft of a rifle from the University of Otago Rifle Club he was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment, and for the theft of a motor-car to three years’ imprisonment, these sentences also to be concurrent with the others. He was convicted and discharged on charges of the conversion of a •'bicycle and the theft of car plates. On each of the charges of theft of a padlock, and theft of petrol and fuses, Shanks was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment, these sentences to be cumulative on the other sentences of three years, but concurrent with each other. DECREE NISI GRANTED
A decree nisi was granted by Mr Justice McGregor in the Supreme Court yesterday on the ground ot separation in the following petition:— Joan Nicholls (Mr Roy Twyneham) v. Walter Charles Nicholls.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27643, 27 April 1955, Page 15
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