John Roche Fined

It is Friday again, when I share something that I have found whilst looking for records, that is interesting or adds information to our family tree.

I have yet another lighting offence. This one was committed by John Roche. Although Dermot's great grandfather was John Roche, I do not think he was the John Roche mentioned in the article, as he would have been 73 years old at the time.

Taken from, Liverpool Evening Express 15 October 1940, page 8

The transcription reads:

PUBLIC SPIRITED SAILOR
"This is not the first time that we have had public-spirited sailors of the Royal Navy bringing local residents to the police station," said a police officer at a North-west police court today, when John Roche, a machinist and member of the Home Guard, was fined 20s. for failing to extinguish a torch during an air raid.

For a similar offence, Leonard Jones, dock labourer was fined £2. A police officer said that as Jones refused to put the light out he had to take the torch from him.