Statues Painted: Magistrates and Youths’ Outrageous Conduct: “It is outrageous that young visitors to Seaview should go about actually painting the place red,” said the presiding magistrate at Ryde (I.O.W.) to-day when Stephen Mackenzie, a Cambridge undergraduate, of Dorking, and Roger Pinsent, public schoolboy, of Somerset, were charged with doing wilful damage. It was alleged against them that late at night they painted the statues of lions on the lodge gates of a large house at Seaview with blue and red paint and daubed a Post Office pillar box with white paint. Through their parents the boys apologised, and they were each fined 50s and 50s damage.
[see also Derby Daily Telegraph: Tuesday 20th September 1932, Evening Telegraph: Wednesday 21st September 1932 and Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette: Saturday 24th September 1932 and Portsmouth Evening News: Tuesday 20th September 1932]
[see also Sheffield Daily Telegraph: Wednesday 21st September 1932]
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GRO0754 Devonport: Roger Philip Pinsent: 1916 – 1997