Judge warns man
A sickness beneficiary; l who passed a note to a 13-j; year-old schoolboy in the underground men’s lavatory i n Cathedral Square suggesting an indecent act, • was jailed for 15 months by I Mt justice Somers in the ' Supreme Court yesterday. Harold Ashton Woods, : I aged 62. was found guilty by a jury on a charge of attempting to do an indecent! : act. | Mr R. .1. Murfitt appeared; for Woods. * His Honour said that! Woods had been before the I
[Court on matters of this) I sort on many occasions and! knew the seriousness of the] offence. It was impossible to] accede to the submission of: counsel that he should be) released on probation but he would take into account that) the boy had suffered no* harm, and Woods’s age and: state of health. His Honour warned) Woods that if he. appeared; 'before, the Court again on* this type of offence lie] ; would be given preventive! {detention. ' Mr D. J. 1... Saunders ap-j ipeared for the Crown.
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