APPEALS HEARD

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31071, 28 May 1966, Page 23

APPEALS HEARD

Two Fail, One Allo wetl

Two appeals against sentences on criminal conviction were dismissed by Mr Justice Wilson in the Supreme Court yesterday, and one appeal on a traffic matter allowed.

An appeal in writing by j Adrian George Adams, aged 117, a painter's apprentice. ! against borstal training for I burglary, and stabbing ■ another youth with a pocket- ■ knife during a fight, was dismissed, on the ground that Adams had not been “a victim of circumstances,” as he claimed, acting in self- ! defence, but had drawn the i knife before the fight began, ' and besides stabbing his opponent in the chest had | twice attempted to stab him | in the back. “Borstal training was an ! appropriate sentence in this i case.” said his Honour. I An appeal by Kevin Moana iJarden, aged 20, a workman i (Mr R. G. Blunt) against I two years’ imprisonment for | burglary was also dismissed, on the ground that he had ! failed to respond to previous I supervision and probation, during which time he had j committed a series of : burglaries and thefts. I An appeal by John Howard Otten, a junior linesman (Mr ! R. S. D. Twyneham) against [ cancellation of his driver's ! licence for driving an un- : registered motor-vehicle, was ■ upheld on the ground that the cancellation had been I without jurisdiction.