Skegness Magazine

APPEALED IN VAIN
DISTRESSING CASE OF A SKEGNESS MAN

The appeal of John Henry Gask (52), of 9, Scarbrough Avenue, Skegness, against a total of six months’ imprisonment in respect of three convictions for indecent offences against young girls at Skegness before the Lindsey Appeals Committee at Lincoln on Wednesday was dismissed.

The sentence had been imposed by Skegness magistrates on June 28th when Gask admitted the three offences and asked for two of a similar nature to be taken into consideration.

Gask, it was stated, was the part-time caretaker of the Roman Bank Methodist Chapel at Skegness, and all the offences were committed against young girls who attended the chapel Sunday school, and took place either at the chapel or in its immediate vicinity.

MEDICAL TREATMENT
Mr. G. C. Phillips, chairman of the Appeals Committee, said it was one of the most distressing types of case with which they had to deal. The committee asked their clerk to bring the facts of the case to the notice of the hospital authorities in the hope that it might be possible for Gask to receive the medical treatment he so urgently required immediately his prison sentence was completed.
No order for costs was made.

1951 local news story