VIOLENT CRIMES
INSPIRING FEAR AND TERROR
A JUDGE’S VIEWS
REASONS FOR. HEAVY SENTENCE
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SYDNEY, “10th August. Giving reasons’in the Court of Criminal Appeal why he (imposed a sentence •of’ fifteen years’ penal servitude on Leslie Gosper for having attempted to discharge a/gun at a woman, Mr Justice Curlewis said: “With regard to the evilly disposed, section of community, I consider it my duty not only to inspire fear, but also in the case of crinjes of ■ violence to inspire terror. Many people have to live in congested areas where opportunities occur for the commission of outrages, often, on children of both Sexes, who ldok to the Judge for protection.” Mr. Justice Curlewis remarked that it was significant that in recent years light sentences for brutal outrages had provoked the prediction that a crop of such crimes /would; follow and this had been borne out by events. .' Gosper’s appeal against the sentence on the ground that-the shooting was unintentional was adjburned.,
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 11 August 1928, Page 7
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