FIVE YEARS’ REFORMATIVE DETENTION
A DIFFICULT '.PROBLEM. Leonard Hollobon. who had pleaded guilty to three charges of Indecent assault on males, appeared for sentence before the Chief .fustice (Hon. M. Myers) in the Supreme Court yesterday. In passing sentence His Honour remarked that prisoner's ease, presented a di Hi cult -problem. It wns difficult to know how best to deal with prisoner, both in his own interest and in the interest of Hie public. There was no halfway house and no special Institution to which men such as prisoner might be seiit. One thing certain was that he must be placed somewhere for a substantial period where he might not continue tliose'aels to which he had plead ed guilty. Hollobon (who was represented by Mr. W. E. Leicester) was sentenced to five years' reformative detention on each charge, the terms to bo concurrent.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 32, 1 November 1929, Page 20
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