BREAKING AND ENTERING
Eleven Months’ Gaol
“It has been said that you prefer to live by your wits,” said Mr Justice Wilson to a young man before him for sentence in the Supreme Court yesterday. “Let me say that you don’t have the mental equipment for that. But you do have the ability to earn a good wage at honest employment.” His Honour sentenced Trevor Reekie, aged 21, a labourer (Mr R. G. Blunt), to 11 months’ gaol, to be followed by one year’s probaition, for breaking and enterjing the premises of Taylors i Cleaners and Dyers, Ltd., Kilmore street, and the Home Laundry Service, Ltd., Victoria street, on January 10. He had pleaded guilty to both charges. Mr Justice Wilson said Reekie had been before the Court four times on that type of charge, and he was almost in the category of a professional burglar. He therefore had the right to be dealt with ion that basis.
Burglary was prevalent in the city, and the offences called for a severe sentence. He would certainly impose a severe sentence if it were not for the fact that Reekie was just 21.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30442, 16 May 1964, Page 15
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