TWO YOUNG OFFENDERS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19550, 1 February 1927, Page 15

TWO YOUNG OFFENDERS

burglaries in suburbs. SHOP FIRES AT PANMURF. A PERIOD OF DETENTION. TJie youth. Leslie George Dunn, who recently robbed and burned a block of shops at Panmure, appeared before Mr. Justice Stringer in the Supreme Court yesterday and was sentenced to not more than three years' detention in the Invercargill Borstal Institution. The charges against Dunn were arson, breaking and entering and theft. He was not lepiesented by counsel. " A lot of this is on the shoulders of the police," said the prisoner's father, who was allowed to address the Court. " He left home on January 5 to go to his work at Westfield and did not return. The police caught him in Bell Road, Remuera, and instead of holding him, as I asked them, they let him go." His Honor: But there was no offence. The Father: He had already committed an offence then, and they knew it. If they had held him this would not have happened. His Honor remarked that there was nothing on record to show that the boy had broken the law at that stage, and the police were not entitled to detain him. " He seems to be quite out of your control, at any rate," continued His Honor. " The best thing in the boy's interests and yours will be to send him to a Borstal institution, where he will have training, discipline, education and a comfortable home, and will be under restraint". The Father: Yes, sir. His Honor then passed sentence. SHOP TWICE ENTERED. THE INCIDENTS AT PAENELL. Charles Octavian Orlando Giorgi; the youth who had earned some notoriety by breaking into a Parnell fruit shop on two different nights, appeared for sentence oil a series of charges of breaking and entering and theft. He answered " No," when asked if he had anything to say. Giorgi, on his first visit to the shop, had left a note threatening to come again and wreck the shop if money were not left for him. He admitted he had been granted probation in December last, and had committed the offences while his term was still current. " You evidently did not appreciate the benefits of the Probation Act," said His Honor. "You will be sentenced to not more than three years' reformative treatment."