TEN YEARS’ GAOL IS PENALTY FOR BRUTAL CRIMES.
JUDGE COMMENTS ON PRISONER’S MENTALITY.
Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, December 3.
In the Supreme Court Mr Justice Frazer sentenced Frederick Thomas Kelly May for brutal offences on a woman aged sixty-five at Ramarama, and on a girl aged thirteen years at Waiotira, to ten years’ itnprisonment with hard labour on each of two charges of rape, the sentenjes to be concurrent. On charges of theft by menace May was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment to be concurrent with the previous sentence. His Honor said that the circumstances of each of the more serious charges indicated gross violence when the victims w r ere absolutely helpless and beyond reach of any assistance. But for the possibility that the prisoner was mentally subnormal it would have been his duty to order that he be flogged.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18627, 3 December 1928, Page 9
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