LENIENCY REFUSED
An appeal for leniency for a man stated to. be suffering from an incurable disease and "under sentence of death" was made at Cardiff Quarter Sessions recently. In the dock was Patrick John Sheehan, 31, collier, who pleaded guilty to breaking and entering a house in Rumney, Monmouthshire, and stealing money and jewellery'. A record of offences since 1921 was proved against him. Mr. D. Meurig Evans, defending,, said: "His record is ■intierWoven' with 'his physical state, and over its whole course he has been shown no clemency or given any opportunities. He has no opportunities which the. possession of wealth would give to assist his recovery. I ask you to temper justice with mercy and givfe him a chance to pass the remaining years of his life outside prison walls." The Recorder, Mr. Roland Vaughan Williams, K.C., said that Sheehan's health'might have contributed to the offence, but physical disability did not usually produce that result on people. In sentencing Sheehan to twelve months' hard labour, he said that the community must be protected, and the 'man would be well looked after in prison hospital.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 138, 12 June 1936, Page 6
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187LENIENCY REFUSED Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 138, 12 June 1936, Page 6
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