UGLY CRIME
BLACKMAILER SENTENCED (P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH. May 8. " Blackmail is a very ugly crime. Raid Mr Justice Northcfoft in the Supreme Court this morning, when sentencing Brian Douglas Borton (20), a cleaner, to hard labour for 18 months on a charge of demanding money with menaces. His Honour added that blackmail consisted of robbery by mental torture. The wrongdoer added to dishonesty the much more horrible offence of calculated cruelty. It was only the prisoner's youth that saved him from very much more serious punishment.
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Evening Star, Issue 25169, 8 May 1944, Page 2
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85UGLY CRIME Evening Star, Issue 25169, 8 May 1944, Page 2
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