MAGISTRATE’S COURT Year’s Gaol For Indecently Assaulting Girls

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30811, 24 July 1965, Page 7

MAGISTRATE’S COURT Year’s Gaol For Indecently Assaulting Girls

Two terms of one year’s Imprisonment, to be served concurrently, were imposed on Frederick Leslie Dix, aged 39, a postal assistant, when he appeared before Mr K. K. J Headifen, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday for sentence on two charges of indecent assault on a female.

One charge concerned an assault on a girl aged six on or about July 3, and the other an assault on a girl aged nine on or about June 25. “The offences w£re despicable," the Magistrate told Dix, who was not represented. He had considered the matter carefully, the Magistrate said. When it came to the question of balancing his duty to the defendant and the best way of dealing with him and effecting his reformation with his public duty to protect children, then it was his view that he must have the greater consideration for the children. As he had said before, he was not prepared to tolerate inteference with children, the Magistrate said. FINED £6O

Desmond John Millward, aged 19, unemployed (Mr L. M. O’Reilly) was fined £4O. and admitted to one year’s probation, when he appeared for sentence on a charge of escaping from lawful custody on July 3. On a further charge of obstructing a police officer on July 3, he was fined £2O. Mr O’Reilly submitted that there had been an improvement in Millward’s character since he first appeared before the court. The Magistrate said that although prison or Borstal was the usual penalty for offences of this nature, he would not impose this on Mill ward, as he agreed with Mr O’Reilly’s submission. BENCH WARRANT A bench warrant was issued for the arrest of Mervyn John Walker, who failed to appear on a charge of dangerous driving on May 5 and a charge of driving while disqualified on May 25. IDLE AND DISORDERLY John William Mapstone, aged 20, unemployed, was p aced on probation for one year when he appeared for sentence on a charge of being idle and disorderly on July 18. Special conditions were that he pay £lO towards the cost of the prosecution, work and reside where directed, and open a post office savings account. The Magistrate said he imposed the conditions to make sure Mapstone saved to go back to Australia “ ... as we can well do without you.” FINE AND PROBATION “This is the last occasion on which I will leave you in the community. The next time you appear before this court, you will face a period of Borstal training,” said the Magistrate when he fined Rosemary Adelaide Norton, aged 18. a factory hand, £l5, and admitted her to probation for two years, on a charge of theft of bedding, valued at £lB, on July 19. Norton was appearing for sentence. PROBATION A sentence of one year’s probation was imposed on Lewis Michael Mason, aged 17, unemployed, when he appeared for sentence on a charge of the attempted theft of a

pair of suede shoes valued at £4 19s 6d. The offence was committed on July 19. Special conditions of probation were that Mason pay £lO towards the cost of the prosecution, work and reside where directed, and open a Post Office Savings Bank account. Mason had above average intelligence, and it was time he made use of it, the Magistrate said. “There seems no reason why a person of your capability should appear’ before the Court.” SUPPRESSION GRANTED A man, whose name was suppressed (Mr A. Hearn), was admitted to one year’s probation, and was ordered to pay £lO towards the cost of the prosecution, when he appeared for sentence on a charge of assaulting a female on June 18. REMANDED Kenneth Clive Snow, aged 23, an order clerk, was remanded on bail to July 29 on a charge of false pretences to the value of £9. CHARGE AMENDED A charge of careless use of a motor vehicle in Normans road on April 17, against Arthur Delatour Johnston, jun., aged 23, a sales representative (Mr G. T. Mahon), was amended to one of exceeding 30 miles an hour. Johnston pleaded not guilty to the original charge, and guilty to the amended charge, on which he was convicted and fined £5. FINED £lO Charged with failing to give way to the right, at the inter-

section of Woodham road and Gloucester street on April 16, John Garry Pattinson Ramsay, aged 26, a steel reinforcer (Mr S. G. Erber), was convicted and fined £lO. Ramsay pleaded not guilty to the charge. On a charge of driving while disqualified on the same date, to which he pleaded guilty, Ramsay was convicted and remanded on bail to July 30 for a report and sentence. TRAFFIC CHARGES On other traffic charges brought by the police, offenders were dealt with as follows, with costs of £1 10s in each case:— Careless use: Robert Philip, £10: Geoffrey Barton Slee, £lO, and licence endorsed for three years: Peter Leslie Mulholland, £8; Robin Stewart Collins, £10: Patrick Mills, £lO and licence endorsed for three years; William Charles Simonsen, £lO and licence endorsed for three years; Geoffrey William Taylor, £lO and ordered to attend three traffic lectures; Albert Thomas Day, £5 (no warrant of fitness, £3). Failed to give way at give way sign: Allan John Caine, £B. Failed to give way: Raymond Clarence Coburn, £10; Antonius Knipers, £10; Keith Roland Ward, £B. Failed to comply with traffic lights: George Graham Eley, £5. No warrant of fitness: John Lawrie Chambers, £3; WardellsKincaid, Ltd., £3. Failed to notify change of ownership: Allan Norman James Bishop, £1; Ronald Leslie Clarke, £l. Failed to notify of destruction of motor-vehicle: Patrick George Shannon, £l. (Before Mr E. A. Lee, S.M.) CARELESS USE Charged with carelessly using a motor vehicle on June 11, at the intersection of Seaview road and Oram avenue, Gary William Didham, aged 19, a workman (Mr S. G. Erber), pleaded not guilty. He was convicted and fined £4. REMANDED On two charges of receiving goods knowing them to be stolen, on June 10 and July 1, Peter Ferguson Campbell, aged 27, a truck driver, was remanded on bail to August 2,