Soldier court-martialled
NZPA staff correspondent' Hong Kong A New Zealand serviceman acquitted by a Singapore court of a drug trafficking charge has been courtmartialled for related offences. Lance-Corporal Francis Xavier Gardiner, aged 20, last week pleaded guilty at a district court-martial in Singapore to three charges of smoking cannabis and one of procuring cannabis. A spokesman for the New Zealand Force in South-East Asia has said from Singapore that the court-martial panel, brought up specially from New Zealand, had demoted Gardiner to private and sentenced him to 80 days detention.
Private Gardiner would return to New Zealand soon and serve his detention at the Services corrective centre. Ardmore.
The spokesman said the court-martial had resulted
from “certain information" given by Gardiner when giving evidence in his own defence on the trafficking charge before the civil court. He emphasised that the court-martial had not tried him for trafficking. Gardiner, of Wellington, is one of four New Zealand servicemen in Singapore to have faced civil action over alleged drug misuse.
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