PATROL STATION ROBBERY
MAN SENT TO GAOL FOR TWO YEARS. SERIOUSNESS OF OFFENCE EMPHASISED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. “With your record it is impossible to consider the probation term for which you ask, particularly because of the seriousness of the offence,” said Mr Justice Northcroft this morning to Cyril James Martin-Leverson, who appeared for sentence on a charge of robbery. The prisoner was not represented by counsel, but made a written submission to the Judge. It was impossible to grant probation, the Judge. Martin-Leverson’s record went back to 1933, when he was convicted of theft, and in 1935 he was again convicted of theft and sent to Borstal. The offence was a particularly serious one. The fact that the pistol the prisoner presented at another, person was incapable of doing what they imagined it might did not affect the seriousness of the crime. The prisoner was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment with hard labour.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 November 1938, Page 8
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