Youth in private murder case freed

Title

Youth in private murder case freed

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

22 Dec 1988

Year of production

1988

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Duration

00:02:03

Description

Tim Crook reports on the decision by an Old Bailey jury to clear an eighteen-year-old youth from Battersea in the first private prosecution for murder in thirty years. Gregory Pawsey was brought to trial by Roy McHayle, whose twenty-year-old son Robert McHayle was stabbed to death while trying to separate youths fighting in Hillier Road, Battersea. Includes interview with lawyer, Roisin(?) McCurry(?); Roy McHayle.

Contributors

Tim Crook; Roisin(?) McCurry(?); Roy McHayle

Keywords

London; Crime; UK; Great Britain; Homicide; England; Trials; Battersea; Verdicts; Robert McHayle; Roy McHayle; Gregory Pawsey

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