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Former SAS man, Andrew Wragg, has been
found not guilty of murdering his terminally ill son. Wragg had admitted
suffocating his son Jacob, who suffered from Hunter Syndrome, at the family
home in Sussex in July 2004. Wragg was given a two-year suspended sentence
for manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. The Lord
Chancellor, Lord Falconer, has said that a review of murder laws will
clarify when a killing should be treated as manslaughter rather than murder.
think the public, and the jury and people involved in these cases need to
have a clearer picture of where the line is to be drawn because the
discussion we're having now reveals to some extent the difficulties of where
that line is," he commented.
"The law can never condone mercy
killing, because the law is there in part to protect people who might be
killed," he added.
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