Guilty!

[ciphergoth]

Not murder, sadly, but manslaughter.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_2125000/2125268.stm
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_634143.html

How that makes any sense, I don't know - if he's "connected" to the killing by having paid people to do it, surely that's murder? The jury seems to think there's "reasonable doubt" that he actually wanted him killed, rather than just roughed up a bit. But what they did was not a "roughing up" gone too far - it was clearly planned as a hit attempt.

Call in Roger Cook! And the United Nations!

U: Got there before zotz, yay!
U: In other news, Jeffery Archer is still in prison.

Comments

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

But lhiss got there first :)
He's probably got the UN bribed & blackmailed as well as the jury, mind :/

[zotz]

What can I say? I've been busy.

Last week the Beeb said that it could revolve around what he intended them to do - the jury has decided that there's room for doubt over whether his goons went further than he'd intended them to. Hoogs could still get life, though. I liked the bit about getting psychiatric reports - if only I could get my hands on them!

[lovingboth]

I wonder if it was a case of the jury 'splitting it down the middle'.

Did I ever tell people that L's husband, then a probabtion officer at Belmarsh, got to tell Michael Howard that, no, he couldn't visit Aitken in prison because of the rules MH'd passed as Home Secretary? Sadly, he missed Archer's arrival...