UK News 11-03-2005 who: Andrew Wragg, father of a terminally-ill 10 year-old what: Says his wife agreed to killing of their son where: Crown Court, LEWES when: Tuesday snippet: "Wragg, 37, a former SAS soldier, was giving evidence on the sixth day of his trial, in which he maintains ten-year-old Jacob`s death at the family home in Worthing, Sussex, was a mercy killing," says The Scotsman. His ex-wife Mary has told the court she had no role in the killing but he insists she "totally agreed" with his plan. Elsewhere in the courts, a jury at Winchester Crown Court cleared police officers Mark Witcher and Andy Lang of raping a woman but Mr Justice Davis called them a disgrace to their uniform and jailed them for 15 months for misconduct in public office; two 17 year-old bullies were sentenced to terms of eight months and 18 months by Bournemouth Crown Court for the manslaughter of 16 year-old non-swimmer David Berry, who drowned when they pushed him into the river Stour in Dorset after a GSCE exam last June; and finally the BBC reports that 17 year-olds John Sawdon and Jermaine James and 16 year-old Rebecca Peeters "have been jailed for life for hacking a friend to death with two scythes in a field near Sheffield". [... more]

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