18 Months' Gaol For Hoaxer
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) SYDNEY, May 11. A young man who hoaxed police investigating Sydney’s “mutilation murders” was sentenced to 18 months’ gaol today. He is Patrick Leo Royan, aged 24, a tannery worker, of Chatowood. Sydney, who pleaded guilty to causing public mischief.Judge Arnsberg said Royan, a “resolute, deliberate and cunning liar” had caused an Australia-wide search by his hoax. Royan had told police that a man armed with a knife had jumped on him from a branch of a tree in a city street shortly after midnight on April 14 last year.
Anti - Partisans Gaoled.— Ten men were gaoled for terms ranging from eight to 12 years yesterday for wartime attacks against Czechoslovak partisans, the Czech news agency Ceteka reported. —Prague, May 10.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30129, 13 May 1963, Page 10
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