Prisoner Accuses Police Of “Gross Injustice”
(N.Z Press Association)
WELLINGTON, August 2.
“After a fortnight in a cell the thought of escaping immediately enters the tnind,” Nelson Donald Hogg, aged 22, a clerk, told Mr J. R. Drummond S.M. in the Magistrates’ Court at Lower Hutt today Speaking from the dock. Hogg, who was handcuffed to a policeman, accused the police of gross injustice, extremely poor conditions at the Rotorua lock-up and poor meals, part of which, he said, were provided by a local milk bar.
Hogg was appearing for sentence on charges of theft, attempted theft, escaping and two charges of car conversion to all of which he had pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court at Rotorua.
Detective Sergeant O. M. Mitehell, said Hogg had been in custody 11 days.
The Magistrate sentenced Hogg to a total of 15 months’ imprisonment. Earlier Peter Anthony Byrne, aged 23, a welder, appeared for sentence on the same charges to all of which he had previously pleaded guilty. He was goaled for a total of 21 months.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30200, 3 August 1963, Page 13
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