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 12/12/05 - Ex-soldier cleared of son’s murder

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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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