TWO YEARS’ GAOL
Car Converter Sentenced Daniel Mata Tinsley, aged 29. was sentenced by Mr Justice Macarthur in the Supreme Court yesterday to two years’ gaol on a charge of car conversion, the maximum term for the offence. Tinsley had been committed to the Supreme Court for sentence after being found guilty of the charge in the Magistrate's Court. His Honour told the prisoner that, in view of his previous record, he had no op-
tion but to impose the maximum term. He was already liable for preventive detention and would be in real danger of having that sentence imposed on him if he offended again. For Tinsley, Mr B. J. Drake said that a limited intelligence and drink were the causes of his getting into trouble. Although the prisoner had a long list of convictions the report by the Secretary of Justice said that the time had not yet come when preventive detention was the only sentence to bring the prisoner’s crimes to a halt.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29536, 10 June 1961, Page 16
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