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YOUNG HEIRESS SPENT £60,000 IN THREE YEARS A YOUNG heiress spent her fortune at the rate of £20,000 a year until she was stopped by her trustees, London Bankruptcy Court was told yesterday. Miss PAMELA GERTRUDE ALEXANDRA KLEYFF, 23, who inherited £105,770 when she was 18 and £29,000 when JUDGES' FAIR DEAL FOR NONBy JAMES 0'DRISCOLL High Court Reporter WITH few present day murderers serving more than 15 years in prison an armed bank raider who does not commit murder should not spend any longer in jail, Lord Justice LAWTON said in the Cour of, Criminal Appeal yesterday. wiThe him. two Lord other Justice judges sitting, JAMES and Mr Justice MILMO, agreed. They sentences on 12 men jaild at thee Old Bailev last vear for their part in armed raids.

in which million was stolen. With the abolition of the death nenaltv and corporal punishment. said Lord Justice Lawton. it not in the public interest that sentences should be passed which meant a longer term for such convicted persons than for others who had been convicted of murder. BRYAN JAMES TURNER, 37.

of F. Folly Close. Radlett. Herts. DANIEL ALFRED ALL.PRESS.

30. car dealer, North Road. New Barnet, Herts, BRUCE BROWN, companv director. of The Crosswav, Heston, Middlesex, each had their 21-vear jail sentences reduced to 18 yars. Bank raids The court dismissed appeals by Turner (known as 6 Mr and Brown of taking part in raids on Barclavs banks at Wembley and Ilford Alloress of taking part Wemblev anthey bank raid.

a bank at Bournemouth post office robbing, van at Portsmouth. A 22-vear sentence on Michael Henrv Salmon, 37. antique dealer. of Ware don, Herts, was Roadededdes 18 years. Salmon's appeals against conviction of taking part in the Ilford bank robbery, the Post Office van robbery at Portsmouth and of conspiracy to rob and possesing a firearm were dismissed.

JOHN ALFRED RICHARDS, 40, dealer of Windermere Avenue. South Kenton, Middlesex: ANTHONY 33. general dealer. of Portrush Court, FlemRoad. Southall; JAMES WILLIAM JEFFREY.

33. brake presser, of High Road. Harrow Weald. and RORERT ALLEN KING, unemploved, of Hind House. Harvest Estate.

Holloway. London, each had their 16-vear sentences reduced to 15 vears. 12-year sentence on DAVID CHRISTOPHER DELANEY, 35, scrap' dealer, of Wimborne Avenue, Hayes, Middlesex, was reduced to nine vears. His appeal against conviction of conspiracy to rob was dismissed. Conspiracy to rob A 14-year sentence passed on WILLIAM STANLEY SHERVELL, 34, greengrocer.

of Warwick Court. Northolt, Middlesex, was reduced to 10 vears. His appeal against conviction of conspiracy to rob was dismissed. DONALD WALTER BARRETT. unemploved, of no settled address, had his 17-vear sentence reduced to 12 years, but his appeal against conviction of robbing Barclavs Bank at Ilford was dismissed.

THOMAS FREDERICK FRENCH. 31, taxi driver, of Carwinnen, Troon, near Camborne. Cornwall, had a sentence cut to seven years. He had not appealed year against his convictions of taking part in three bank robberies. The judges dismissed the appeal by ALAN JESSE DAVIS.

31, security guard. of Old Kent Road. Bermondsey, against a 10- year sentence for robbery, and CHARLES ALFRED DANIEL DALE, antique dealer, of North Parade, Middlesex, against a 14 year term for robbery. Neither appealed against conviction. she was 21, now.

owes £15,000. to fortune When was only left, £69,000 in 1973, of her she agreed to let the trustee put the capital out of her reach. Her spending during the previous theree years was detailed by Mr DEREK THORNE, the Official Receiver. He said Miss Kleyff spent: £20,788 on apartments, all sold at a loss; £5,330 on hair and beauty treatments; £24.000 on wine and food and general living expenses; £4,866 on clothes; and £4,791 on furniture. He also mentioned some of the cars she had owned, including a mini, a Lotus Europa, an Alfa an E- type Jaguar and a BMW 2000.

E-type smashed She had helped a boy friend buy a £4.963 E-type. She said it was smashed in an accident on an Italian motorway. They had gone to stay at the Carlton Hotel in Cannes at the time the bill came to £800 and her friend travelled to Italy alone. 6 6 He was delaved on the way back and he knew I would be worried so he put his foot down Miss Kleyff said. A tyre burst and it was a very serious accident." She added that the boy friend was wearing a £600 watch she had bought at Cartiers, which was also destroyed in the crash.

The Official Receiver said he had recently heard from Miss Klevff's trustees. They were now willing to settle all her debts. Miss Klevff, who will inherit a another £29.000 when she is 25. agreed she had been unjustifiably extravagant. She is now living in Gloucester Terrace, Hvde Park, in a flat paid for by her mother.

The public examination was adjourned until May 20. TOP-CLASS BURGLAR WINS AGE REBATE A young burglar, described in court as a top-of-the professional, prison sentence reduced yesterday because of his age. Keith Allison, 23. of Chepstow Villas, Notting Hill, had been sentenced to seven after admitting stealing antiques, jewels, silverware and cars valued at £113.285. But Judge Peter Greenwood called him back to the dock at Chelmsford Crown Court and his sentence to years.

half The Judge said: I have been thinking about your case over the last few davs and have come to the conclusion that I didn't give enough weight to your age." World's worst burglar' this Carshalton, week John Surrey, Wilkes. had his sentence cut from 312 vears to 18 months in the Appeal Court after claims that he was 6 6 the world's worst burglar." He netted only 300 cigarette coupons in three years of raiding houses. 'CLEAN UP THE STREETS' WRIT The Dowager Lady Birdwood, is taking her 6 6 clean uno the streets" campaign to the High Court. She has issued a writ against, council Kensington seeking and a Chelsea declaration that the council should forthwith provide a full and proper public cleaning service." Last December, Lady wood, 61, of her neighdraw attention 6 piles of bours held a public, protest to rubbish 19 the streets around her home in Philbeach Gardens Earles Court. She said she was too ashamed to invite friends to her home.

Safety changes urged after flat fire death 'A CORONER called for changes safety measures in tower blocks yesterday after hearing how a man died in a fire trapped on his balcony 110 feet above the ground. A fire officer told the inquest at Hornsey, North London, that firemen were powerless as the 30-year-old mechanic. Roy FIELD, was engulfed by flames. Their escape ladder was only 50 feet high and no other ladder would have reached him. Station Officer LEONARD HARDY said that no matter how quickly firemen could have got to Mr Field it would have been too late.

66 Flames were reaching right across the balcony and enveloping this man." Right decision Dr DAVID PAUL, the coroner, expressed concern that the only way of escape from Mr Field's flat was through the blaze into the hallway, or by waiting to be rescued. He said the firemen's decision Widow strangled in Belgravia is 13th victim of mugger By JOHN WEEKS, Crime Staff AN 89-year-old widow, found strangled in her Belgravia flat, is the latest victim of a man who has attacked 12 other elderly women in the area in recent months. Mrs Adele Price was found dead in the hallway of her flat in Lowndes Square by her granddaughter on Monday afternoon. Police believe she was murdered only minutes before, by a man who followed her into her home. The killer may have been In the flat when the granddaughter, who lived with Mrs Price, first tried to get into the flat with her own key.

But the door had been locked from the inside. Body in hallway The granddaughter, aged 24, returned later with a neighbour and was able to use her key to enter the flat. She found the body in the hallway. Price, crippled with arthritis, had only a few pence her purse. Police are not yet sure whether she had been robbed.

Det- Supt John Bland. leading the murder inquiry, said yesterkiller is believed to resemble a man who has attacked at least 12 other women aged between 60 and 89 during. the last four months in Belgravia, Knightsbridge and Chelsea areas. The attacker followed elderly women from shopping trips back to their homes, forced them inside and attacked them. each, case from he their stole handbags, between but left other property in their homes untouched.

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Mr Bland said: It is obvious from the investigation we have made that there is somebody who is preying on these elderly women in this area of London." He appealed for any elderly women who have been attacked recently and have not reported it to the police to come forward. He believes a great many other attacks have taken place but gone unreported because the victims were too frightened, or embarrassed Men from Scotland Yard's Special Patrol Group have been drafted into the area. SIGNALMAN IS BLAMED FOR TRAIN CRASH A collision between a goods train and a passenger train in which a driver and a guard were injured. was caused a signalman's momentary lapse," savs a Railways report published todaspectorate The goods train was stopped at a signal at Bransty. near Whitehaven, Cumberland.

to await acceptance by the signal box ahead. Ten minutes later the signal cleared. the train started to move was run into at the rear by the passenger train. Th passenger train was 6 irregularly allowed into the section by the signalman at Parton station, savs the report. The accident was on Nov.

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Mr DAVID SAVILL, prosecuting said Mr JAMES ROBERTSHAW, who had lived alone since 1959, had accumulated some wealth through property investments. In 1965 he bought a modest house in Southbrook Terrace, Bradford. which he turned into private museum with a large collection of swords, guns and jewellery and had the back windows, back door and front cellar bricked up. Entry to the house was through the front door which had three locks. a chain and bolt and.

a peep-hole. It is not surprising if the impression got abroad that he was a man of whose house might substance, said Mr Savill. Regular visits' Another curious side of this old man's activities was that for a number of years he had been friendly with and regularly visited by a prostitute called Dorothy May Smith. "She used to come to his house almost daily and despite that, he used to write letters to her and send her telegrams. From time to time he used to give small sums of money, whether or not any sexual activities had taken place between them." Before the were STEPHEN CHARLES court, contractor, of Frizinghall Road.

Bradford, Yorks: and EDWARD JOSEPH DUFFY, 25, of no settled address who denied murdering Mr Robertshaw. Plow. Duffy and WILLIAM ALEXANDER FENTON, 33. of Derby Street, Bradford, pleaded guilty to conspiring burg. lary at Mr Robertshaw's house on Aug.

8-two his deathion was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment and 15 months altogether after a SiX months' suspended sentence for ordered to take effct. Mr Savill said he would be calling Fenton, as a witness. Meticulous diary Mr Savill said that on Aug. 8. Plow and Duffy had failed in an attempt to get into the house after Fenton, knowing Mr Robertshaw's weakness for women, had lured the old man to a public house by falsely telling him he had got him 66 a bird." Mr Robertshaw kept a meticulous account of his movements in a diary.

The last entry was on Aug. 10-" 9 p.m., No. 9 bus to Southbrook Terrace." Mr Savill said that on that night Duffy and Plow brutally and savagely attacked Mr Robertshaw, ransacked the house and stole a number of weapons and other items. was found dead on Aug. 15.

The pathologist concludede that death occurred probably late on Saturday, Aug. 10 or Aug. 11. Plow and Duffy suggested to police that Mr Robertshaws was alive when they left him on the Saturday night Mrs DOROTHY SMITH, of Newport Street, Bradford, said she had known Robertshaws for about 17 years. He used to send her telegrams nearly every day, sometimes twice a day asking her to go to his house, and he used to give her money--sometimes £3, sometimes £5 and sometimes £20.

Cross examined by Mr WILFRED STEER, C. for Duffy, Mrs Smith said she had never gone to bed with Mr Robertshaws. The trial was adjourned until today. of diamond-studded jewellery for a diamond and furs charity fashion show attended by Princess Anne at Quaglino's last night in aid of Action Research for the Crippled Child. The diamonds were supplied by De Beers.

to go up the building's fire escape stairs and central lift to fight the blaze from the inside was the right one. hook ladders on the outsidesing the building was extremely dangerous. The fire in the Fields's flat at Shrewsbury Crescent, Stonebridge, was caused by a mattress too near a storage heater. It happened the day before Mr and Mrs Field were due to move out. Lift out of order Mr PETER CASSIDY, the block's caretaker, said a second lift had been out of order.

They habitually broke down, usually because of vandalism. There were no alarms on any of the floors and there were not notices telling tenants what to do in the case of a fire." he said. But Mr JOHN BUCKLEY, housing director for the London Borough of Bernt, said notices were posted by the lifts telling tenants to contact the careaker in emergencies. Verdict: accidental death..