CAR CONVERSION AND THEFT
Difference Seems “Quite Stupid”
If a man “pinched” 20d of cheese, that was out-and-out theft, tor which he could go to gaol, but if he took a £2OOO car it was only conversion. “I agree, personally, it seems quite stupid, but there is something to do with the law about it,” the Minister of Transport (Mr Mathison) said to a questioner at a political meeting last evening. The questioner had asked Mr Mathison if the Labour Party, if returned, would introduce more severe penalties for car conversion.
There were legal difficulties, concerning the definitions of theft and conversion, about introducing severer penalties for conversion, Mr Mathison told the questioner. "The Minister of Justice is not at all keen about it” Mr Mathison said. “But I agree with you, personally, that the time may come when something ought to be done about it”
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29354, 5 November 1960, Page 14
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146CAR CONVERSION AND THEFT Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29354, 5 November 1960, Page 14
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