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ciphergothNot 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!
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zotz, yay!
U: In other news, Jeffery Archer is still in prison.
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.
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Date: 2002-07-22 11:21 am (UTC)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...