TWELVE YEARS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 38, 14 February 1941, Page 9

TWELVE YEARS

ALSO A FLOGGING

FOUR GAOL BREAKERS

FIFTH A LIGHTER SENTENCE

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

AUCKLAND.. This Day,

Four of the five prisoners who broke gaol in October, Smith, O'Hehir, Duff, and. Silva, were sentenced by his Honour Mr. Justice Blair to twelve years' imprisonment with hard labour, additional to the sentences they are already serving. .

They were also ordered a flrjging of twenty strokes c; h.

The fifth prisoner, Watson, was sentenced to rcformati,ve detention for four years after serviiv his original sentence.

Randall Reginald David Smith, Brian James O'Hehir, John Henry Silva, and Allan Roy Duff were prisoners who had been found ! guilty of breaking prison with violence and rendering wardex's incapable of resistance by means of violence.

Smith, Sijva, and O'Hehir said they had nothing to say.

- For Duff,' counsel, Mr. Noble, said that the prisoner had not realised the full gravity, of the offence until he was involved in it.

' On the count of breaking prison by violence, the sentence was seven years' hard labour. For rendering warders incapable of resistance the sentence was twelve years' hard labour and twenty strokes. The sentences were made concurrent, namely twelve years in all, but cumulative with sentencesj already being served. ■ ■ . . ■ i Watson was sentenced to four years' reformative detention for escaping and assaulting warders. •