Painting it Red: “It is outrageous that young visitors to Seaview should go about actually painting the place red,” said the presiding magistrate at Ryde, Isle of Wight, yesterday, when Stephen Mackenzie, a Cambridge undergraduate, of Dorking, and Roger Pinsent, a public schoolboy, whose home is in Somerset. were charged with doing wilful damage. It was stated that at night they painted statues of lions on lodge gates with blue and red paint and daubed a Post Office pillar-box with white paint. Through their parents the boys apologised. They were each lined 10s. and ordered to pay £2 10s damages.
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GRO0754 Devonport: Roger Philip Pinsent: 1916 – 1997