Murder can be ‘crime of passion’, says top judge – Daily Telegraph

January 18, 2012 Posted By: Leave a comment
Lord Judge, the Lord Chief Justice, said juries should be allowed to consider the fact a victim had been unfaithful as a possible provocation – in defiance of a new law that banned it as an excuse. It restores a defence in so-called “crimes of passion ...
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