Unlocked Cars
Sir, —When this topic was last discussed in these columns there was, if one remembers rightly, considerable advocacy both for sterner measures against “converters” and for calling a spade a spade in relation to the technical description of the offence itself. Whether a car is locked or not seems totally irrelevant to the moral issue, which is, after all, the most important. A murderer’s plea that he found it, in practice, much more tempting to batter to death an old woman asleep in her bed than to execute his homicidal intentions on a grown man alert and active would carry little weight at the Old Bailey. Whatever penalties the law may prescribe, there is little doubt that the exaction of full restitution for damages done in relation to “conversion” and a good many other offences would constitute a more powerful deterrent than anything else.— Yours, etc., ILAM. April 9, 1959.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28866, 10 April 1959, Page 8
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152Unlocked Cars Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28866, 10 April 1959, Page 8
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