SAW HER FATHER SHOT.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20282, 17 April 1934, Page 1

SAW HER FATHER SHOT.

Girl’s Appeal Granted by Court. LONDON, April S. A little girl, the daughter of an Army officer, sitting at dinner with her and friends. The door opens. Six masked men enter. They riddle the officer with bullets before the eves of his child. This scene was described to the Judges of the Court of Criminal Appeal, London. They granted the application made on behalf of the daughter, now a young woman, for leave to appeal against a sentence of six months’ imprisonment in the second division for larceny, and gave her permission to call further evidence. The subject of the application. Miss Doris Hunt, had been convicted at London Sessions on a charge of stealing a handbag at a shop Mr J. D. Cassels, K.C. (for Miss Hunt), said that her father was an officer in the Royal Inniskilling pjsiliers. “In 1921 he .was serving with the Black and Tans ’ in Ireland,” he added. “ One evening, while he was dining at an hotel with his wife and daughter and a few friends, the door of their room was opened and six masked men entered and riddled the father with bullets. “ A bullet grazed one of Miss Hunt’s legs. “ This young girl,” said Mr Cassels, “ received a terrible shock, and has never fully recovered from it. The medical evidence is that she is in a condition of adolescent instability. “ In some respects she is a child of nine, in others a girl of twelve, and in intelligence a girl of eleven. “ This evidence as to the shooting was never before the Court, and had it been it is possible that a different view would have been taken of her case.” Mr Justice Avorv said that thare would also be leave to call medical evidence and the evidence of the mother.