ESPIONAGE CHARGES
Woman Sentenced To 14 Years’ Jail LONDON. February 10. The Court of Criminal Appeal, giving judgment in camera, quashed the conviction of Dorothy Pamela O’Grady on two capital charges under the Treachery Act, but sentenced her to 14 years’ imprisonment on charges on which she had previously been convicted though not sentenced, namely, apt proaching a prohibited place, making a lilan which might be useful to the enemy, making a plan likely to be prejudicial to the defence of the realm with intent to assist the enemy, possessing a document purporting to contain defence information, and sabotage by cutting a telephone wire.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 118, 12 February 1941, Page 8
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104ESPIONAGE CHARGES Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 118, 12 February 1941, Page 8
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