Girl Sheltered Escaper Because She Loved Him
(N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, June 27. An 18-year-old girl living at Mount Albert, told the police she helped an escaper avoid arrest because she loved him, Detective-Sergeant E. R. Hutchinson said in the Magistrate’s Court at Auckland today. The girl, whose name was suppressed, pleaded guilty to a charge of assisting Phillip Raymond O’Regan, aged 19, a wool scourer, to avoid arrest, knowing he had escaped from the pre-release hostel at Mt. Albert on May 21. O’Regan had earlier appeared for sentence before Mr W. J. Meade, S.M., who ordered that the term of borstal training imposed on accused in May for assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest to be extended for six months. Detective-Sergeant Hutchinson said the police asked the girl about O’Regan’s whereabouts, but she denied knowing where he was. They searched her flat. The back door was jammed shut with a chair and there was a hole in the ceiling above the kitchen. O’Regan, who was wearing
only a pair of jeans, was found in the space above the ceiling. The girl said she had helped O’Regan avoid capture because she loved him. The Magistrate convicted the girl and remanded her until Monday for sentence.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31097, 28 June 1966, Page 23
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