'The sentence for stealing privily from the person is execution, to be carried out on a day following the first Sunday following conviction. However, the court has a certain discretion. News has recently reached this country that there is a shortage of able-bodied women in the penal colony of New South Wales. In consequence, Alice Venning – I sentence you to 15 years' transportation.'
Source:
Radio Times, 12 May 1977, p.37.