Supreme Court CHARGE OF ARSON

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32974, 21 July 1972, Page 6

Supreme Court CHARGE OF ARSON

Crown’s case continued The trial of Robert Gordon McCord, aged 52, a war pensioner, on a charge of arson continued in the Supreme Court yesterday before Mr Justice Wilson and a jury. McCord has pleaded not guilty to a charge of wilfully setting fire to a house owned by himself and his wife, Janie Elizabeth McCord, at 313 Woodham Road, on March 10. Messrs B. McClelland and D. J. Mac Kay appear for the Crown and Messrs P. G. S. Penlington and R. J. Aldous for the accused. The Crown has still two witnesses to call.

Evidence has been given! by Constables James Edmund Brailey and John Murray Gunn, police photographers, David Rowell, a surveyor, Errol Terrence Higgins. a solicitor, Noeline Una Bowden, a housewife, Una Margaret Lockie, a widow, Lyn McCord, a schoolgirl, Gordon Henry Hobson, a rubber worker, Donald Alexander Crerar, a television presentation supervisor, Douglas John Ell, an N.Z.B.C. presentation officer, Gordon James Low Mitchell, the senior station officer at the Sockbum fire station, lan Stuart Semple, the fire prevention officer of the Metropolitan Fire Board; John William Highman. Bruce Attwood Smart, and Michael Leslie White, detectives; and lan Roger Griffiths, an insurance company claims officer.