Sentence For Burglary
Accepting that Desmond Bruce McDonald, aged 41, a workman, was. not “the ordinary layabout who resorted to burglary instead of earning an honest living," Mr Justice Wilson in the Supreme Court yesterday sentenced him to six months periodic detention at a work centre instead of imprisonment. McDonald (Mr M. G. L. Loughnan) appeared for sentence on a charge of burglary of a Memorial Avenue radio shop, of which he was found guilty after Supreme Court trial last week.
Mr Loughnan had submitted that McDonald’s was a case where the Court was justified in extending leniency, even to probation. McDonald’s past offences had been minor, as was his part in the present offence, when very much under the influence of liquor he had assisted his brother by acting as a “look-out” while the latter broke into the shop. His Honour said that noone who committed burglary who Was not a first offender could hope to escape without some form of detention. He ordered that McDonald’s term of detention be followed by a year’s probation, under the special condition that McDonald abstain from liquor.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32119, 15 October 1969, Page 19
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