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Socialist Challenge 6 December 1979 Page 2 Criminal appeal in Edinburgh.
"There are but a licence to NESTE appeal judges.
displeasure Thẹ DISSUIC referring to was Scottish Pardon for JUNE GREIG, jailed for six years for killing her brutai husband, lost her appeal two weeks ago at the Court of various expedients open to a woman regularly subjected to rough treatment by her husband, kill is not one of them,' said Lord Wheatley, one of the He went on to express the court's Jane spending of public. money on this appeal, pointing out that he thought the sentence was rather lenient. He finished by criticising 'pressure group activity' while an appeal was pending.
The was Women's Ajd, which has decided to seck a Royal of their June as pall campaign for a 'better deal for Scottish women'.
But perhaps Lord Wheatley has got a point. Can judges 'give women a icence to kill' as the popular press in Scotland emotively suggested?
June Greig had suffered a 'life of hell' for nine years, as her reiatives testified at the time of her trial. Her husband continually beat her. burnt her with cigarettes and even slashed her with a knife. Like many battered women June feared the violent retailiation of her husband if , she took any steps to protect herselt.
The legal system in general has standards HICIr women. If men brutalise, rape or degrade their wives this is a privateaffair which the police and courts ignore. If women in an) desperation dare to retaliate this becomes a matter for public concern and legal punishment.
June's 'crime"
stop her intimidation in the only way she knew how — by self-defence.
The 'various Wheatley particularly lacking Courtsregard wives as their husbands' chattels and He incidence of wife assault in Scotland there is no Domestic Violence Act. 1 Katherine Potter, who retaliated in a simlar. Tasmel three years probation by a judge in Newport, Wales:
Mitchell from Edinburgh said: and lawyers courts has led to missed opportunities to consolidate the wide public support that exists for June's case.
was discussed at the STUC Women's was to attempt to for June.
expedients' that Dunfermline are aricilol Scotland.
despite the high to une wa June and Aileen "Misguided faith in the advice of Mau DuaLISIl *A motion about domestic violence Conference. The next step must be a mass demonstration to win a pardon 'Only last week a woman from Fife, Margaret received years imprisonment on a similar charge.
We see this campaign as a fight to win freedom from suffering for all battered women, whether at the hands of their husbands of their lover.
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Roy Hattersley addresses the crond of over 50,000 Dy Store fo TENS reception as they tried to put on their anti-Tory clothes.
The demonstration topped 50,000 people workers joined in towards the CALLS London jof the mass 01 Xirs.
big the Campaigns But the Shirley Williams ¡ the Tories!' reviving memories demonstrate against the Heath gomermaca Firefighters pecix secter workers were there, too, with contingents especially NUPE hospital closures figured largely among the ranks of the health service young most noticeable :up? came the is spotted ITS I T TED THIS JE MICATE sect to sere Marte CANCE SE lines of potice in the corridors.
Many had at the Grunwick picket lines. and the siogan raised by some Scottish workers Help the police. Beat yourself - raised a cheer from the ranks of the demonstration and
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