TWO RUFFIANS
Substantial sentences. ■f. (By Telegraph—Press Association). ■ - A UdKLAN D, May'TSV '* " At the Supreme Court, tw r o young men Roy Gordon Capel and W illiam Gibson." Wete " sentenced "by Justice Kennedy to long terms of imprisonment. Capel for assault with intent to commit a more serious offence, was sentenced to four years’ hard, to be concurrent with a sentence he is now serving. Gibson for a major offence on the same women to five years’ hard concurrent with a sentence he is nowseiving.
Capel had at the November session been acquitted on a rape charge. He was sentenced to tv T o years’ Borstal foi breaking and entering and theft. While awaiting sentence he committed the crime for which he was now sentenced. His Honour said. Gibson, stood by while Capel overpowered and committed the offence upon a girl. He then, after the girl had been brutally treated committed the erime of which Ke had been found guilty.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 May 1929, Page 5
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