Brian Young (magistrate)

Brian Michael John Young (born 10 September 1954) served as Magistrate of the British Overseas Territory of the Pitcairn Islands from December 1984 until 1 January 1991. In 2007, Young was found guilty of rape and indecent assault, and was sentenced to six years and six months in prison.

Career

Young served as a Magistrate on the Pitcairn Islands and was made Council Representative to the School Maintenance Committee in 1994. He later moved to New Zealand.[1]

Trial

See also: 2004 Pitcairn Islands sexual assault trial

During a special sitting of the Pitcairn Supreme Court in New Zealand, Young was found guilty of child sex offences during his time on the Pitcairn Islands in January 2007.[1] Two years earlier, the 2004 Pitcairn Islands sexual assault trial had resulted in six men being found guilty on 35 charges of similar crimes. A third of the men on the island were charged during the trial and the result was said to have shocked the islanders according to the New Zealand Herald.[1][2] Young was tried alongside Shawn Christian, a descendant of Bounty mutineer Fletcher Christian and a future mayor of the Pitcairn Islands.[1][3] After the trial, Young was extradited to the Pitcairn Islands to be sentenced.[1] In March 2007, Young was sentenced to six and a half years in jail by Chief Justice Charles Blackie of the Pitcairn Supreme Court.[4]

Ancestry

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Two more found guilty of Pitcairn Is child sex". ABC News. 9 January 2007. Retrieved 15 July 2025.
  2. ^ "Pitcairn Island in shock at verdicts". The New Zealand Herald. 26 October 2004. Archived from the original on 31 May 2021. Retrieved 15 July 2025.
  3. ^ "Pitcairn Islands Government 2019". Thedora. Archived from the original on 5 November 2019. Retrieved 15 July 2025.
  4. ^ "Pitcairn man gets six-and-a-half-years for rape". ABC News. 5 March 2007. Retrieved 15 July 2025.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.