“DESERVE TO BE FLOGGED”
OFFENCE AGAINST YOUNG GIRL.
By Telegraph.—Press Association.
Wellington, Dec. 19.
“I was wondering whether I ought to order you to be flogged, as part of yOur sentence. It is what you thoroughly deserve, but I have decided not to do that. I am going to inflict a long term of imprisonment. This sort of thing cannot be tolerated in the community.” These remarks . were passed, by Mr. Justice Ostler to-day in sentencing William Williams, a young man, to six years’ hard labour for raping a girl of six at Masterton. /' < • ■ ••
The judge described the offence as particularly brutal, callous and violent, and added that prisoner was a man of bad character with convictions for the it against him.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 December 1930, Page 9
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