SUPREME COURT Found Guilty Of Assault

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30277, 1 November 1963, Page 6

SUPREME COURT Found Guilty Of Assault

A jury in the Supreme Court yesterday found William Leslie Campbell, aged 39, a painter and paperhanger, guilty of assault. Campbell was found not guilty of assaulting a female. The jury made a strong recommendation for mercy. Mr Justice Macarthur remanded Campbell in custody for sentence this morning. Complainant was Pamela Dawn Hillier, formerly a policewoman and now a student.

Mr C. M. Roper prosecuted and Mr A. Hearn appeared for the defence.

On Wednesday Miss Hillier gave evidence that Campbell had assaulted her in a telephone booth before she had ended her conversation. Campbell had dragged her from the booth, she said, and

struck her in the face with his clenched fist, and had later kicked her while she was lying on the ground.

Evidence was also given by another witness of seeing a man kicking another person on the ground.

Yesterday Campbell said that he stood by the box for some minutes and then asked the person inside “whether he would be long.” He thought that it was a youth inside the box.

A little later, Campbell said, he had told the person in the box that there was a woman waiting also. “When I said this there was a sort of break in the discussion and I got clobbered,” Campbell said. He was hit in the 6ye and across the bridge of the nose. He entered the booth to make his call and heard a voice saying that they had taken his keys. To Mr Roper, the accused said that he was sure that he had not kicked Miss Hillier. He had no idea that he was dealing with a woman. Vera Gertrude Campion said that she was waiting to use this telephone. She saw Campbell open the door of the booth and tell the person inside that she had had 10 minutes. The person had either punched Campbell in the face or had pushed the door of the booth onto his face, Mrs Campion said. At this time, she thought that the person in the booth was a bodgie boy, said the Witness.

She later saw Miss Hillier punch Campbell twice, but did not see Campbell strike any blows, the witness said.