Youth sent to Borstal, disqualified
Greymouth reporter
A youth was sentenced to Borstal training by Mr B. A. Palmer, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court at Greymouth yesterday after being convicted of 11 charges. The defendant was also disqualified from driving for 18 months.
The youth, William John Crooks, aged 19, an unemployed fisherman, had pleaded guilty on Wednesday to four charges of burlgary, two of attempted burglary, three of theft, and two of unlawfully taking motorvehicles. The offences occurred in Blenheim, Christchurch, and Greymouth. The Magistrate said that Crooks had convictions extending back to 1971. Last year he had been sent to detention-centre training for unlawfully taking a car and wilfully setting .ire to a car.
“Both your interest and that of the community rule out any community-oriented penalty. . said the Magistrate.
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