CRIMINAL CAREER

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 447, 1 June 1937, Page 2

CRIMINAL CAREER

BOUND OVER AT EIGHT Twenty Convictions London, May 15. Stated to have been bound over at the age of eight and to have had only two months of freedom since he was seven, Alan Stevens (22), carpenter, of Caversham Road, Reading, was sentenced to three years' penal servitude at Oxfordshire Quarter Sessions an a charge of breaking and entering. Stevens’ real name, said a police officer, was Thomas Steven Kneale. He was a native of Ramsay, Isle of Man. His convictions began in August, 1922, when he was bound over at the age ot eight, and there were 20 convictions against him since. He had been previously sentenced for shopbreaking, sacrilege and larceny. Mr Mitford (defending) said Stevens had never known what home lite was, and in these circumstances he started a criminal career. He had had only two months of freedom since he was seven.

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