Seven Years Gaol
(N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, Aug. 15. A 77-year-old man was sentenced to seven years imprisonment for manslaughter by the Chief Justice (Sir Richard Wild) in the Supreme Court today. He is Patrick Joseph Byrne, who was charged with murdering John Fergus Fahey, aged 50, at the Home of Compassion, Silverstream, on April 25, but was found guilty of manslaughter by a jury last week. His Honour said Byrne had 86 previous convictions, stretching back to 1923, when he came to New Zealand. Byrne had had several gaol terms of up to six months, the last of them as recently as two years ago when, in circumstances not very different from those revealed in the present case, he attacked a sleeping man so violently that the man needed 100 stitches.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19690816.2.129
Bibliographic details
Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32068, 16 August 1969, Page 14
Word Count
132Seven Years Gaol Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32068, 16 August 1969, Page 14
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.
Log in