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Man Imprisoned For 15 Months
(Rec. 10 p.m.) ADELAIDE, September 16.
A man who admitted having falsely represented that he had fallen into the sea, or had committed suicide, was sentenced today to 15 months’ imprisonment for creating a public mischief. He is 31-year-old Owen Ronald Jack McDouglas Copley, of Adelaide, who was alleged to have gone to great lengths to desert his wife and family and, to provide a rendezvous in another State with a woman with whom he had formed an association.
After he was reported missing on July 6, two men were killed in a plane crash while searching for him. Mr Justice Ross said compensation was entirely a matter for Copley and his own conscience. At an earlier hearing, Mr J. F. Brazel (for Copley) said Copley had suggested that the Court should order him to pay the State money it had spent in searching for him.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28384, 17 September 1957, Page 10
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