SUPREME COURT Sentence Of 4 Years For Burglary

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32296, 14 May 1970, Page 7

SUPREME COURT Sentence Of 4 Years For Burglary

Carl Frederick Rosel, aged 25, a welder, was given four years gaol when he appeared before Mr Justice Wilson in the Supreme Court yesterday for sentence on a charge of burglary of the shop of Waters-More, Ltd, at Hanmer Springs, on the night of March 4-5.

Rosel, who was represented by Mr C. A. McVeigh, was found guilty of the charge by a jury on May 5. Mr W. A. Smith appeared for the Crown.

Mr McVeigh said that during the last few years Rosel bad been associating with the fringe of a bad element. He was weak-willed and was easily led into criminal ways. However, there were distinct signs of his growing responsibility to others.

Rosel’s wife was expecting a child in June, and its arrival could relieve the tense domestic background. In 11 months of marriage

Rosel bad been with his wife for only five of them, said IMr McVeigh. His Honour said that Rosel had a formidable list of con- | victions for burglary beI tween the years 1964 and 1967, and now he had been convicted of a further offence. A considerable quantity of property had been stolen by (the accused and another person, who had apparently not been apprehended, from a shop at Hanmer Springs. Only a small proportion of the stolen goods had been recovered.

, “Day after day I have prisoners telling me of the troubles they have landed themselves in,” said his Honour. “The considerable risk of releasing you on the community is not warranted.

You have indulged in a persistent course of dishonesty and it calls for a substantial term of imprisonment.”