BRUTAL CRIMES.
YOUNG MEN PUNISHED. LONG TERMS OF IMPRISONMENT. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Wednesday. At the Supreme Court two young men, Roy Gordon Capel and William Gibson, were sentenced by His Honour Mr Justice Kennedy to long terms of imprisonmentCapel for assault with intent to commit a more serious offence, was sentenced to four years' hard labour, concurrent with a sentence he is now serving.
Gibson, for the major offence on the same woman, received five years’ hard labour, concurrent with a sentence he is now serving.
Capel had at the November session been acquitted on a rape charge, but was sentenced to two years’ Borstal for breaking, entering and theft. While awaiting sentence he committed the crime for which he was now sentenced. .
His Honour said that Gibson stood by while Capel overpowered the woman and committed the offence, and then after the victim had been brutally treated committed the crime of which he had been found guilty.
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Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17711, 15 May 1929, Page 8
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