PRISON FOR SABOTAGE
TERM OF FOUR YEARS LONDON, December 10. For sabotage involving aircraft which cost the country £34,000 Ernest James* Coles, fitter, aged 31, was sentenced at Bristol Assizes to four years’ penal servitude. The case was heard in camera. Coles had been committed for trial by Bristol magistrates earlier this month on charges that he: “Unlawfully did an act with intent to imtent to impede the working of certain aircraft used or intended to be used in the performance of essential services.” Superintendent H. Lush said: “The
allegation is that £34,000 has been lost to the country as a result of his offence.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 January 1941, Page 7
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