Girl’s Gaol Term Cut To A Day
(Rec. 10 p.m.) LONDON. August 9. A 24-year-old girl, sentenced to three months’ in gaol for riding on the back of her boy friend’s motorcycle while his licence was disqualified, had the sentence reduced to one day in the Leeds Appeals’ Court today. In June, Margaret Woodward stood in the dock beside Derek Glynn, aged 20, and tried to take the blame. Glynn was imprisoned for three months and she was also sentenced for aiding and abetting him. She served seven days and was then released on bail pending an appeal that the sentence was too severe. The Leeds Recorder said; “She was infatuated with the young man and made excuses to save him. She was seeking to take the whole blame because she was in love. I am satisfied the sentence was too severe. If one day’s imprisonment had been Imposed, it would have been enough.” Miss Woodward collapsed when she heard the appeal result, but said outside the Court: “It would have killed me to go back to- Strangeways. It was horrible.”
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Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27733, 10 August 1955, Page 13
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