“MEAN TYPE OF CRIME”

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 200, 25 August 1943, Page 5

“MEAN TYPE OF CRIME”

MAN SENT TO HARD LABOUR (P.A.) Auckland Aug. 23. Two years' hard labour was the sentence imposed on George William Charles Hancock by Mr. Justice Fair in the Supreme Court to-day on charge- of false pretences and theft, of which he had been found guilty. The prisoner had worn a kilt and posed as a member of a famous Scottish regiment. He obtained £240 from a young woman, but the down Prosecutor, Mr. V. R. Meredith, said that fortunately arrangements had been made under which the loss was , reduced to £lOO. I Hancock told the Judge that part of his representations was not untrue. Only a few months ago did he learn who his real father was. and also of his death. He had documents to show that money was coming to him. (The prisoner’s documents were handed to the Judge and His Honour remarked that they showed the prisoner had an interest in an estate). I The Judge, in sentencing Hancock, ' said he hart committed a mean type of ’crime. The series of offences which were the basis of the latert charges were committed three months after his discharge from prison, and were brazen and impudent, indicating ir--1 responsibility that required the disciplinary check of imprisonment.