Acquittal of murder
PA Hamilton A Cambridge boy. aged 13. was acquitted late" last night of the murder of a girl, aged 8, after nearly eight hours' deliberation by a High Court jury in Hamilton. The boy, whose name was suppressed, was charged with murdering the girl at Cambridge on September 17 last year. The jury of four women and eight 'men returned the verdict following a three-day trial. The boy was discharged by Mr Justice Bisson. The prosecution alleged that the boy used two knives to stab the girl in the throat and chest as she sat in the living room of her home. Two psychiatrists who
were witnesses for the defence said the boy was unable to reason at the time of the incident. They considered he had suffered an "acute situational reaction or disturbance.”
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Press, 10 February 1983, Page 4
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