18 YEARS' IMPRISONMENT
MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE AGAINST LONDON STEVEDORE Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright (Rec. 8 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 28. A sentence of 18 years' imprisonment was passed by Mr Justice Martin on Ronald Eastwood, aged 20, a waterside worker who was convicted of manslaughter in connection with the deaths of two men by shooting them in a taxi ori. November 23. The victims were Ronald Pugh, 22, a labourer, who was n companion of Eastwood's, and Harry Nicholls, 43, a taxi driver. Pugh Avas shot while the taxi was being driven through the suburbs. Nicholls was shot when he tried to escape after Pugh was shot. Eastwood was charged with murder, but the jury returned a manslaughter verdict. Passing sentence, the judge severely criticised counsel's plea that Eastwood, a product of a, firearms age, could not be blamed for carrying a loaded revolver. The judge said any young men who subscribed to that doctrjne would find it did not appefll to the courts. Young men had many privileges to-day that their fathers had not, but roaming at will with a loaded revolver was not one of them.
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Evening Star, Issue 25422, 1 March 1945, Page 9
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18518 YEARS' IMPRISONMENT Evening Star, Issue 25422, 1 March 1945, Page 9
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