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LONDON NEWSPAPER
EDITOR IMPRISONED FOR THREE MONTHS
ARTICLE ON HAIGH CASE Rec. 1.15 a.m. LONDON, Mar. 25. Silvester Bolam, editor of the Daily Mirror, was to-day sentenced by the King’s Bench to be detained in Brixton Prison for three months for contempt of court, and the newspaper was fined £IO,OOO.
The contempt consisted of an article published in the Daily Mirror held to prejudice the trial of John George Haigh, aged 39, a company director, charged with the murder of Mrs Olive Durand-Deacon, an elderly widow, who disappeared from her London hotel. . At an earlier hearing the Lord Chief Justice Lord Goddard, said the Daily Mirror had alleged that Haigh was guilty of “murder after murder.” Lord Goddard giving judgment said: “With a man held on one murder the most horrifying details are given of other murders which are said to have been committed. After the man was charged with murder there were three issues published of the Daily Mirror —three separate editions which contained articles, photographs and headlines in the largest possible type
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27040, 26 March 1949, Page 7
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176£l0,000 FINE Otago Daily Times, Issue 27040, 26 March 1949, Page 7
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