COURTS AND OFFENCES.
TEN YEARS’ IMPRISONMENT. (By Telegraph—Prese Association.) AUCKLAND, Dee. 3. At the Supreme Court, Mr. Justice Eraser sentenced Frederick Thomas Kelly May for brutal offences on a woman, aged 65, at Ramarama, and on a girl, aged 13 years, at Waiotira, to ten years’ imprisonment with hard labour on each of two charges of rape, sentences to be concurrent. On charges of theft by menace, May was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment, sentence to be concurrent with the previous sentence.
His Honour said that the circumstances of each of the mor serious cases, indicated gross violence when the victims were absolutely helpless and beyond reach of assistance. But for the possibility that the prisoner was mentally subnormal, it would have been his duty to order that he he flogged.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 3 December 1928, Page 9
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