Gaol sentence for Borstal escaper

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 34012, 28 November 1975, Page 17

Gaol sentence for Borstal escaper

Arthur William Taylor, aged 19, a Borstal inmate who escaped from Addington Prison by using a ladder, was sentenced in the Magistrates Court yesterday to a total of nine months imprisonment on two charges ol escaping, three of unlawfully taking a vehicle, and a charge of burglary. Mr N. I. Bradford. S.M said that he had no option but to imprison Taylor in order tu protect the public interest How lever, he had made the term as short as he could and if Taylor “behaved himself” he could get a third of it taken off in remission. The Court had heard that Taylor, who pleaded guilty to the charges, had escaped from the Invercargill Borstal on I October 16. He broke into a workshop and he and another escaper took a Landrover. They abandoned the vehicle; at Port Chalmers and took a car from a private garage. Both of them were caught at Timaru. On November 17 Taylor l pleaded guilty to four of the charges and was remanded in [custody at Addington Prison [awaiting sentence. ! The following day he removed a sheet of iron in the temporary exercise yard and sot into the imain yard where men had been 'working. He used a ladder to climb over the wall. Taylor was apprehended at Blenheim the folowing morning, t driving the car of David Joseph .Corboy. The car had boon taken from Lincoln Road Counsel (Mr R. J Murfitti said that Ta'lor had escaped from Borstal because he resented the authorities there and because he wanted to be neanei to infa mil:y. H's •esentment came from

having (<» wcat pt i son dotlm and the "i auiiiont e- to -upiy a p-.u’limliri oi psychia’rii roun.M !ii”g Mi Murfitt -aid that la'l«» was in danger of hecominr institutionalised If .< priso term were to be imposeu it should he a short one l»ecau-« of Tavlor's age and p.-x <-hiat 11< ba. kground The Magistrate -aid that t, * doctors report showed the defendant had no paychiatre illness or disorder but he did have a slight personality dis order. He had been sentenced to Borstal training on a charge ot escaping, six charges of burglary and charges of unlawful!' po* sessing a firearm and discharg ing a firearm The Magistrate said that he was “not unmindful” of the reasons why Taylor escaped from Borstal—his resentment of the place and his desire to be near his family. He noted that Taylor had pre viously worked well in the com munity. However, the defendant now had to learn to “obey the rules.” Xo bare nomen Malaysian newspapers have agreed not to publish pictures ot women in topless I dresses, see-throughs, bi kinis. and peekaboo blouses, the Secretary-General ot the Home Affairs Ministry (Mr Osman Cassim) said He told reporters that the ministry' met newspaper represent* lives on November II and the newspapers had “agteed i that :he\ do not need tn publish such pictures " ■fiia'a Lu"»ntir.