SERIOUS CHARGE
FIVE YEARS’ IMPRISONMENT.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day.
Five years’ hard labour was imposed on Eric Alfred Garrod, by Mr Justice Blair in the Supreme Court. Accused had pleaded guilty to a charge of rape and, in a statement he put in, said he was too drunk at the time to have any recollection of the offence. Mr Justice Blair said it was a very appalling case, involving a girl only just over sixteen years of age. Young girls had to be protected and the least sentence he could impose was one of five years’ hard labour.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 March 1943, Page 4
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100SERIOUS CHARGE Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 March 1943, Page 4
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