I wo-year 'atrocity' says youth

WOMEN SCREAMED and fainted at the Old Bailey yesterday when three men were jailed and another was sent to Borstal for attempting to steal from passengers on the London Underground and assaulting police officers who tried to arrest them.

As one of the four was taken to the cells he shouted: 'These atrocities will be repaid when we come out.' Judge Edward Cussen, who was constant v interrupted by screams and shouts from women in the public gallery as he passed sentence, told the four:

You must know that interference with citizens using the underground system will not be tolerated by the courts.

'You must be dealt with in such a way as will indicate to you and to others the seriousness with which the courts regard matters of this kind must Winston Neville Trew (21) of Furley Road, Peckham; Constantine Boucher (25) of Thorncombe Road, East Dulwich and Stirling Hector Christie (21) of Ermine Road, Lewisham were sentenced to two years' impriGeorge Griffiths (20) of Grovehill Road, Camberwell, was sent for borstal training.

They were found guilty by a jury last night of attempting to pick pockets of passengers on the Northern Line at Oval station on March 16. They were found guilty of trying to steal from a passenger on an escalator.

The judge discharged the jury from giving a verdict on charges of conspiracy to rob and steal from unknown people on trains, in railway stations and at suburban market places, on which they had failed to agree.

The jury was also discharged from giving a verdict on Boucher and Griffiths on a charge of robbing an unknown person; on Christie on a charge of stealing a purse; and on Trew and Boucher on a charge of robbing an unknown person of £10.

Trew was acquitted on three charges of stealing purses and Christie on one charge of purse stealing. Griffiths and Christie were found not guilty of robbing an unknown person of a handbag.

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