Life sentence for man who killed sex abuser

Title

Life sentence for man who killed sex abuser

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

Mar 1986

Year of production

1986

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Duration

00:03:38

Description

Tim Crook reports on the conviction for murder of teenager David Shaw, who killed the man (59 year-old William Yates) who had sexually molested him several years previously. Includes interviews with an embittered female relative of Shaw, and his mother Joan (Shaw?), who blames the original court’s failure to punish Yates for his crime.

Contributors

Tim Crook; Joan Shaw?

Keywords

Crime; Homicide; Children (age group); Trials; Sentencing; Sexual abuse; Sexual offences; Verdicts; David Shaw; William Yates

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