ASSAULT ON NURSE
COURT REFUSES JURISDICTION (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, March 11. When Brian Dudley Churcher, aged 26, a driver, appeared in the Auckland Magistrate’s Court today for sentence on a charge of .assaulting Sister Shirley Muriel Johnston so as to cause her actual bodily harm on March 1, Mr R. M. Grant, S.M., declined to deal with him. For such a serious offence, the Magistrate said, the maximum punishment that he or the Supreme Court could impose was three years’ imprisonment. "This was a most brutal and unprovoked assault on a defenceless, sleeping nursing sister,” said the Magistrate. "Since I remanded you last Monday for sentence I received a highly improper and anonymous communication which was about your punishment. I regard it as contempt of Court, and I have sent it to the police. "I decline to deal with you summarily today. You will be dealt with on indictment. You will be remanded to be dealt with by the Supreme Court.”
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28224, 12 March 1957, Page 3
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