FINE OF £50

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30278, 2 November 1963, Page 20

FINE OF £50

Sentence For Assault

William Leslie Campbell, aged 39, a painter and paperhanger, was yesterday fined £5O in the Supreme Court by Mir Justice Macarthur. On Thursday, Campbell was found guilty by a jury on a change of having assaulted Pamela Dawn Hillier on Ma y 11. For Campbell, Mr A. Hearn submitted that his client's actions were done at a time when he had, for several reasons, reached such a state of emotional upset that he was not fully in control of himself. When this matter was heard in the Magistrate’s Court, said Mir Hearn, it appeared “to catch the imagination of the reporters and there was a good deal of publicity concerning the matter." In so far as publicity was always a part of the punishment, and Campbell was in business on his own account and dependent on the good will of the public, he had already suffered considerable punishment in that regard. In sentencing Campbell, his Honour said that he had a good record and that the happenings on that particular evening were to some extent occasioned by drink and domestic circumstances.

Mr C. M. Roper appeared for the Crown.