OFFENCES REPEATED
A CASE FOR A PSYCHOLOGIST I United Press Association) WELLINGTON, This Day. A former inmate of Pentonville and Wormwood Scrubs, Douglas Charles Groundy (50), a seaman, who has served 45 months’ imprisonment for offences against males, was sentenced by Mr Justice Smith to-day to three years’ reformative detention for an attempted o’ffence on a boy two or three days after he first arrived in New Zealand.
Counsel said that the prisoner had served in the Royal Navy in the war and later in the Police Force and the Government service. He had been in gaol four times and each time he was released the offences were repeated. He suggested that it was a case for a psychologist. The Judge said that he had to follow the law, but it might be that the authorities would inquire into the case.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 11 May 1939, Page 7
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141OFFENCES REPEATED Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 11 May 1939, Page 7
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