FIVE YEARS’ BORSTAL
YOUTH SENTENCED FOR ATTEMPTED MURDER Blenheim, This Day. “You have done a terrible thing, but what you did was along the lines of what, you have been doing for a long time,” said Mr Justice Finlay when sentencing Allan Joseph Pope, aged 15, to detention in Borstal for a period of five years. His Honour pointed out that Pope, who had been found guilty on a charge of attempted murder, commenced a criminal history which could only be characterised as appalling when, at Wellington, he had burnt a haystack in retaliation for not being allowed to collect insects on the property. The prisoner had been following a course of conduct indicative of ruthless determination to do what he wanted despite the rights of others. His Honour said he would take steps to prevent the prisoner’s association at Borstal with his companion in crime who was already detained there.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 10 March 1944, Page 6
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