CURLINE SENTENCED
TWO YEARS HARD LABOUR 111 the Supreme Court this morning, Victor Rovdeu Curline, who was yesterday found guilty on two charges of breaking and entering, and one charge of receiving stolen goods, appeared for sentence. - Mr A. G. Neill, for the prisoner, said that Curline, who was 39 years of age, had, unfortunately, spent a great deal of his life in prison, being last released in 1940. Since then he had got together a home, and had been working during the day and helping in the war effort at night by serving with the Emergency Fire Service.- In view of this attempt to rehabilitate himself counsel submitted that a short, sharp sentence rather than a long term in' prison would meet the case.
The prisoner admitted 12 previous convictions. mainly for theft, dating from 1914.
His Honour sentenced the prisoner to two years’ imprisonment with hard labour oil the breaking an.T entering charges, and to nine months’ imprisonment with hard labour on the receiving charge, the sentences to b© concurrent. *
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Evening Star, Issue 24331, 21 October 1942, Page 2
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172CURLINE SENTENCED Evening Star, Issue 24331, 21 October 1942, Page 2
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