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THREE YEARS’ IMPRISONMENT. (Per Press Association—Copyright), CHRISTCHURCH, February 11. A sentence of three years’ imprisonment with hard labour was imposed today by Mr Justice Northcroft on ' Joseph Dyer, found guilty of blackmail. “You have been found guilty of blackmail, which is in the next most serious category to murder. The judge told Dyer that only murder, which is punishable by death, carries a heavier penalty, for blackmail is punishable by imprisonment for life. “So seriously is it regarded by reason of the ease and persistance with which it can he committed, its difficulty of detention and its difficult results. Yours is a particularly bad example of the worst of offenders and it is my duty to pass such a sentence as will defer ethers from it.’’
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 February 1938, Page 6
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