FOUR YEARS’ GAOL
(N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, May 3. Wally Poa, aged 27, a truck driver, who attacked two women in Grafton on April 24, was today sentenced to four years’ imprisonment. Poa appeared before Mr M. C. Astley, S.M., for sentence on charges of injuring Susan Claire Smith and Isabel Agnes Hamilton with intent to cause them grievous bodily harm. The Magistrate described the assaults as “brutal and terrifying.” Both victims were quite seriously hurt, he said.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30741, 4 May 1965, Page 3
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