BOY FOR TRIAL
MURDER_CHARGE BOUND BODY IN RIVER ALLEGED CONFESSION LONDON, April 27. A nine-year-old boy was committed for trial when he appeared at the Port Talbot Juvenile Court on a charge of having murdered Glyndwr Owen Parfitt, aged four, whose body was found with his feet tied with laces from new boots. The prosecutor said the accused boy and Parfitt went to the river to get wood, with which they and two other boys were making a fire in an empty house. Parfitt’s body was found in the river. The accused boy, questioned by the police, said; “I tied Glyndwr up with his shoelaces and threw him into the river. I went home afraid to tell anybody.” The prosecutor, discussing the legal position of a child of nine, said he had to,establish that the accused boy deliberately put Parfitt into the water and. at the time, knew he was doing a ■wrong. . The accused boy was committed for trial at the next Assizes.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22318, 1 May 1947, Page 5
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