BLACKMAILER SENTENCED
THREE YEARS’ HARD LABOUR STRONG COMMENT FROM BENCH [Per United Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, February 11. A sentence of three years’ imprisonment, with hard labour, was imposed to-day by Mr Justice Northcroft on Joseph Dyer, who was found guilty of blackmail. “ You have been found guilty of blackmail, which is in the next most serious category to murder,” the judge told Dyer. “Only murder, which is punishable by death, carries a heavier penalty, for blackmail is punishable by imprisonment for life, so seriously is it regarded by reason of the ease and persistence with which it can be committed, its difficulty of detection, and its direful results. Yours is a particularly bad example of the worst of offences, and it is my duty to pass such a tentenco as will deter others from it.”
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Evening Star, Issue 22880, 11 February 1938, Page 8
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