Life sentence
PA Auckland , A naval rating, Walter Thomas Mainwaring, aged 20, was sentenced to life imprisonment last evening after a jury found him guilty of. the murder of Jaqueline Hazel Blunden. The jury returned the verdict at 10 p.m. ; after a six-ar.d-a-half hour retirement, durin : which they returned to the court briefly to have the judge
clarify the legal distinction between murder and manslaughter. When the verdict was announced, Mr Justice Thorp told Mainwaring that he had no option, under law, but to impose a life termThe sentence brought sobbing from members of the defendant’s family seated in court. Monday’s evidence Page 4
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Press, 13 May 1981, Page 1
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