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YOUTH’S APPEAL FAILS

Borstal Sentence Upheld It was important that youths who were a bad influence on others should not be sent to detention centres, said Mr Justice Wilson in the Supreme Court yesterday when he dismissed an appeal by lan Leslie Monk (Mr P. G. S. Penlington) against a sentence of Borstal training. Mr N. W. Williamson represented the Crown.

The appellant, a painter, aged 18, was sentenced in the Magistrate’s Court at Greymouth on January 24 after pleading guilty to three charges of burglary. Mr Penlington said that one of the offences occurred op September 7 and the other two on December 15. when there had been a party at the appellant’s flat. At the time he was on probation. “I submit that Borstal training is inappropriae and, in the circumstances, is excessive,” Mr Penlington said. “I understand that restraint is necessary for the appellant, but I feel the appropriate action would be for him to go to a detention centre as set up under the Criminal Justice Act.”

The prisoner’s record did not make him suitable for supervision at a detention centre, said his Honour. When Monk failed to respond to earlier opportunities, the Magistrate had no alternative but to commit him to ■Borstal training.

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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30051, 8 February 1963, Page 6

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YOUTH’S APPEAL FAILS Press, Volume CII, Issue 30051, 8 February 1963, Page 6

YOUTH’S APPEAL FAILS Press, Volume CII, Issue 30051, 8 February 1963, Page 6

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