GIRL SENT TO PRISON
Urged Youth To Kick Sergeant
(N-Z. Press Association— ■ Copyright) PERTH, September 20. An 18-year-old girl who screamed for a police sergeant to be kicked in the head during a youth pack clash with police on Saturday night was sent to prison today for 14 days. Mr A. G. Smith, S.M., said to her: "rd give you a longer sentence, except for your youth.” The girl, Barbara Maria Jackson, a dry cleaner, of Fremantle, was convicted of having created a disturbance. She was part of a bodgie-widgie pack of about 150 which jostled Police Sergeant C. Watts to the ground several times when he was trying to arrest a youth near a hamburger stall, shortly before midnight on Saturday. Jackson had crowded against the fallen sergeant and urged his prisoner to kick him. Mr Smith said: “In all the inquiries I made I tried to find something in your favour, but I have found nothing in your favour.”
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29315, 21 September 1960, Page 22
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