Girl's sentence changed

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Date: Apr. 17, 1970
From: The Times(Issue 57846)
Publisher: NI Syndication Limited
Document Type: Article
Length: 180,898 words
Source Library: Times Newspapers Limited

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Girl's sentence

changed

Girl's sentence

changed

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Olive Morris, aged 17, of Milford Street. Battersea. S.W., who was sentenced to three months' imprisonment, suspended for three years, for assaulting a police officer, had the period of suspension reduced to one year by inner London Sessions Appeals Committee yesterday.

Mr. Michael Self, for the police, said that on November 15 a large crowd gathered in Brixton when a Nigerian diplomat was arrested for a parking offence.

During the melee Miss Morris kicked a police officer and hit him on the jaw.

Olive Morris, aged 17, of Milford Street. Battersea. S.W., who was sentenced to three months' imprisonment, suspended for three years, for assaulting a police officer, had the period of suspension reduced to one year by inner London Sessions Appeals Committee yesterday.

Mr. Michael Self, for the police, said that on November 15 a large crowd gathered in Brixton when a Nigerian diplomat was arrested for a parking offence.

During the melee Miss Morris kicked a police officer and hit him on the jaw.

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