TRUST MONEY STOLEN
PROBATION FOR CIVIL SERVANT
[PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.]
AUCKLAND, June 29
A plea that as a civil servant the prisoner should not be treated any more harshly than would other persons who had similarly offended, was made by counsel, Dr. Mcllroy, when Robert Edward Sowter, a civil servant, admitted the theft of money as a servant. Mr. Justice Fair: I don’t act on the rule of treating civil servants differently from others who have committed offences when in a position of trust.
Counsel said that the prisoner, who had a wife and young family, took trust money to meet obligations entered into while his wages were small. He would lose all superannuation and assured employment. His Honor said it was very exceptional to grant probation in cases of breach of trust, but from what counsel said this case was exceptional. The piisoner would be released on probation for three years conditional on making full restoration and paying £5, the costs of the prosecution.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 30 June 1939, Page 9
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