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to the
with a variety of knives
place inside a
gambling debts due
leader.
The four men were armed
and choppers. The murder took
restaurant where the deceased
was dining.
The four men had asked the deceased to step outside into
the corridor for a discussion
about a debt owed by
by the
deceased to the leader of $1,400. After an altercation
the four men attacked the deceased with the knives. The
Petitioner had at first been standing guard at the dining
room door. However, he was identified as using a knife,
and was seen to chop the deceased whilst he was lying on
the floor. The deceased sustained nine knife-stab wounds
(one of which penetrated his lungs), two chopper wounds
(one of which severed the tendons of his left wrist and
another which cut his shoulder muscle exposing the bone)
and two large weals caused when the deceased was struck on the back by the blunt edge of a knifeblade.
4.
commutation
Of
The full details of the circumstances of the murder
are set out in a note prepared in 1981 by the then Attorney
General Mr. John Griffiths Q.c.
the prisoner's death sentence A copy of his note is attached.
when the
was under consideration.
Merits of the Petition.
5.
fficer found
The Petitioner comes from a large family consisting
of his mother and father and 10 children. The Probation
that
adequate
parental
he had been deprived of
supervision in his
proper
and
upbringing.
The
Petitioner's mother
to
be
capable of
and father although elderly were fcund
caring for themselves, and received
financial support from their other children.