20 YEARS IN GAOL
45-Year-Old’s Record
(N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, June 11.
Mr L G. H. Sinclair, S.M.. said that a 45-year-old man appearing before him for sentence in the Magistrate’s Court ait Auckland today had spent 20 years of his life to prison. The Magistrate told the man, Leopold John Henry Peck, a hospital orderly, that the way things were going for him he might spend the rest of his life in prison. Peck was appearing tor sentence on six charges of theft, one of burglary and one of unlawfully interfering with a car He was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment
Peck is at present on parade from a sentence of preventive detention (three to 14 years), and the Magistrate said it was probable that the Justice Department would cancel his parole licence.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30155, 12 June 1963, Page 16
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