SERIOUS CHARGE
Five Years’ Imprisonment Press Association-—-Copyright. Auckland. May 17. “It is very difficult to imagine a worse .case than this one,” said Mr Justice . Fair when Alan Sydney Saunders was placed in the dock at the Supreme Court to-day charged with incest. “In considering the facts placed before me I have given consideration to the question whether a flogging should not be imposed to prevent offences of this kind,” proceeded His Honour, “if a man’s natural feelings are not sufficient to restrain him from repeating this type of offence it appears he can only be deterred by fear of physical punishment.” The prisoner, who had admitted the offence, had been committed from Kaitaia. The sentence of the court, was five years’ hard labour. A sentence of one year’s hard labour, Concurrent .with the first. sentence, was imposed on a.further charge of indecent assault of a female.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 436, 18 May 1937, Page 6
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147SERIOUS CHARGE Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 436, 18 May 1937, Page 6
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