 They were found guilty on five counts of theft and malicious damage, admitted damaging more than 70 books, and were sentenced to prison for six months (released September 1962) and fined £262.The incident was reported in the "Daily Mirror" as "Gorilla in the Roses", illustrated with the altered "Collins Guide to Roses" by Bertram Park.Orton and Halliwell felt that sentence being unduly harsh "because we were queers".