FORMER PRISONER’S CLAIMS
AWARDED DAMAGES FOR LIBEL Australian Press Association. London, April 30. Hayley Morris, who was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for indecency to girls, after a sensational trial at Lewes, was again in the Courts yesterday, and was awarded £l5O damages against a newspaper for publishing details of his relations with a woman which the jury adjudged libel lous. To-day Morris is suing the Governors of Portsmouth and Pentonville Gaols for wrongful imprisonment, in that whereas he should have been released on July 20, 1028. he was actually released on July 21. Morris stated in his evidence that he was unjustly deprived of five marks, which were equivalent to a day’s extra imprisonment, because a warder reported him to the Governor for talking in the prison yard during daily exercise. Morris complained that he was not allowed to call evidence to rebut the charge. Morris added that the Governor of Portsmouth Prison was actuated by malice because he refused the Governor's request to spy upon prisoners. The case was adjourned.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 184, 2 May 1929, Page 11
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