ILFORD MURDER CASE
QUESTION OF APPEAL. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, December 12. (Received Dec. 13, at 8.35 p.m.) In the Ilford murder case it has not been decided whether Bywaters will appeal. Counsel is considering the desirability of a petition for reprieve on the ground of youth, but the present feeling of the law authorities at the Home Office is declared to be against a reprieve. It is pointed out that younger prisoners than Bywaters have been hanged, while if Mrs Thompson should be reprieved it would never be possible to execute a woman in the future, however terrible the crime. The whole question of capital punishment for women is involved in Thompson’s fate.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18736, 14 December 1922, Page 7
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