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Woman cleared of murder in retrial
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A woman who spent five years in jail for murdering her friend's boyfriend has been cleared after a retrial.
Stacey Hyde, from Wells, Somerset, was jailed for a minimum of nine years for stabbing Vincent Francis, 34, in 2010.
She had told her friend she "did it" for her because of the way Mr Francis treated her, the original trial heard.
The Court of Appeal ordered a retrial after hearing Ms Hyde had a history of abuse and was extremely vulnerable at the time of the killing.
It followed a campaign by her family and an appeal supported by the legal campaign charity Justice for Women.
A jury at Winchester Crown Court acquitted Miss Hyde, 22, reversing Bristol Crown Court's original decision.
The jury accepted she had killed Mr Francis in September 2009 in self-defence and in fear for her life.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-32829878
She has been released.
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Anyway a good verdict by the jury imo.
Not unusual to be a retrial.
Verdict was quashed, case was not threw out.
I'm glad her false conviction has been quashed. She cannot get back the part of her life that she spent in prison, but at least she still has her life.
Yes, cases like this make me wonder why the hell certain so-called civilised Countries (or parts of them) still have the death penalty. Utterly bonkers.
Glad justice was served in this case, albeit belatedly.
Hardly, seeing as how the same appeals process would have been available and would have been seen to have done its job, as here.
Wrong, you assume the second trial got it right, however the first one may have been right. You liberals really make me sick, you actually believe that everything said in court is the truth, despite the fact that defence lawyers are only employed to lie, cheat, confuse, in order to get the guilty off the hook, but hey, as liberals you just ignore that bit.
The mental health issues were documented prior to the offence which adds credibility surely?
From the article -
Ah yes, you think liberals are "pure evil".
Bingo! This is the post the op was waiting for.
Your posts are getting ever more ranty and bizarre. Are you alright?
Correct, everything they stand for proves it beyond all doubt. I note (with no surprise) that you liberals in your congratulations to another killer, don't even mention her victim or his family.
Innocent of what, she took a person's life
Given the circumstances, the second jury certainly feels she was not guilty of the crime of murder, although I am confused too as to whether the acquittal centred on Miss Hyde's mental capacity during the stabbing or was a straightforward self-defence verdict.
If it was self-defence that led to the acquittal, then the "killer" was obviously justified, and the man killed was not a "victim"
Bloody liberals!
If, but, maybes.... Why is it so hard for you to understand that some murderers get away with it and she could be another one! As a liberal your faith in the deluded system says everything about you.
As idlewilde asked earlier "Are you alright?"
Well, you could try reading the story.
1. 34 year old man, with a history of domestic violence, attacks his teenage girlfriend
2. 17 year old friend of girlfriend attempts to defend her friend
3. Man then attacks the 17 year old friend
4. While he's attacking the 17 year old girl, the girlfriend phones the police
5. While the phone call is taking place, the 17 year old girl, who is still being attacked by the 34 year old man, grabs a knife & stabs him in self defence
6. This can all be heard on the other end of the phone line & the call is being recorded.
The mystery is why she was ever convicted in the first place.
Very much.
It's one of the clearer and more obvious cases of self defence that I've heard.
I'm amazed if what has been reported is true, that there was ever a conviction in the first place.
Mind you I'm an evil liberal*, who thinks people should get a fair trail, that things often are not black and white, and understands that at times if you're defending yourself or another from violence injury or death can occur.
The grabbing a knife from the kitchen to use in self defence is not unusual if you're attacked in the kitchen (be it by a violent spouse, or intruder), and unless she stabbed him a bunch of times, planned it in advance or kept stabbing him once he was down, it's far far more likely to be spur of the moment in self defence than murder given the other circumstances.
*Who is actually quite conservative on many things (I guess middle of the road overall).