BOY AND LIVE COALS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23080, 4 July 1938, Page 8

BOY AND LIVE COALS

CR¥ELTIY OF FATHER AIR FORCE DISMISSAL STATEMENT IN THE COMMONS fFBOM OUB own correspondent] LONDON, June 18 Stanley Parrack, 27-year-old lead "Jg aircraftman at Hendon, was fined £25 on June 2 for cruelty, including making his seven-year-old son pick up live coals, is to be dismissed from the Royal Air Force Sir Kingsle; Wood (A.r Mmister) made this announcement in the House of Commons. . Asked if any provision would be made for the wife and son, the A r Minister said there would be a.service cratuity, and Parrack would be placed under the Unemployment Insurance the police court proceedings, when Parrack was convicted, the magistrates were told that if he were sent to prisbn it would mean his is g from the Royal Air Force and that this would leave his wife and children without means. In a statement yesterday Mrs. Lily Gibbs, Parrack's mother-in-law, said. "I have not seen him since the pohce court proceedings and do not kno where he is. All I want is to have the custody of the boy given to me. He was with me until August of last J' ear - At the house in Rowan Avenue, Hove, where Mrs. Parrack has recently been staying; with relatives, it was last night: "Mrs. Parrack is m Lon< J°n with her husband. We do not know the had claimed that, when he made his son pick up the coals with his bare hands, he did not know the coal was so hot, nor that the boy was really burned. The magistrate, sentencing Parrack, said: ''This is a case of shocking illtreatment, and one really deserving of imprisonment. If you do noi pay the fine within one month you will go to prison for three months." After the case, people demonstrated outside Parrack's home in Brighton. Ancry crowds shouted: Lj r nch nini, and had to be dispersed by the police in the early hours of the morning. Accommodation was provided elsewhere for Parrack and his family. Crowds hissed as he drove away It was thought that Parrack had gone to stay with his brother who was an in the East Sussex police. Dennis Parrack, the son, is now in a public institution at Brighton.