GAOL FOR BORSTAL INMATE
MAN WHO ATTACKED WARDER
Invercargill, This Day. ‘‘Assaults on prison and borstal institution officers have increased, v commented Mr Justice Kennedy in the Supreme Court yesterday when sentencing Peter Lawrence Samson, an inmate of the Invercargill borstal institution to three years’ imprisonment with hard labour. He was charged with assaulting a warder at the institution so as to cause actual bodily harm. “You are serving a term of detention in borstal from where you planned to escape by assaulting the warder in charge,” said his Honour, when addressing the prisoner. “The officer’s skull was fractured and it was fortunate for you that he did not succumb. I think circumstances enjoin me to impose the full penalty, the sentence to be made concurrent with the term of five years’ detention you are already serving. You are to be transferred to gaol.”—P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 4 November 1942, Page 2
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