Eric Mareo To Go Free
•AUCKLAND. Wed. (Sp.)—The Prisons Board has made a recommendation to the Governor General (Sir Bernard Freyberg, V.C.), through the Minister of Justice (Mr Mason), that Eric Mareo, SG. a musician, at present serving a life sentence on a charge of murder, be released in May. Mareo was found guilty on February 26, 1936, of murdering his wife. Thelma Clarice Mareo, and was sentenced to death, but a new trial was ordered, and on June 17 of the same year he was again convicted and ihe death sentence was again passed.
This was' commuted to that of life imprisonment by the Executive Council two months later and Mareo has been a prisoner since. Several petitions praying that an inquiry be made into an alleged miscarriage of justice in his case have been presented to Parliament on Mareo’s behalf, and an appeal against his conviction made to the Court of Appeal in 1946 was dismissed.
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Northern Advocate, 10 March 1948, Page 3
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