SERIOUS OFFENCES
SUPREME COURT SENTENCES “ I could not consider probation in such a case as this. The offence is a revolting one in any circumstances, but in your case it is particularly bad as the boy concerned was your own nephew.” This comment was made by Mr Justice Christie in the Supreme Court yesterday morning when sentencing Robert Hilton Brown Ashbrook, a labourer, aged 30, to six months' imprisonment with hard labour. Ashbrook had pleaded guilty in the lower court at Invercargill to a charge of indecent assault on a male. Mr W. S. Armitage, for the prisoner, said the offence was an isolated one. The prisoner had been badly wounded overseas, and had fairly fx-equent spasms of pain due to shrapnel at the base of the spine. James Frederick Joseph Sadler, aged 18, a labourer, who had pleaded guilty at Oamaru to indecent assault on a male, was ordered to be detained in a Borstal institution for three years. “ You will be given an opportunity there to rehabilitate yourself under proper guidance,” his Honor added. Mr J. B. Deaker appeared for the Crown.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26904, 16 October 1948, Page 9
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