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Willy wrote:
> Sadly where i live someone poured petrol through a letterbox of a old
> woman and she died.
>
> The thug who did this got the house mixed up and says he did not
> intend on killing anyone, the local paper say he will be charged with
> murder but it suggests that this is going to be reduced to
> manslaughter.
>
> How can this be if he did it surely it is murder?

If he did not intend to kill anyone , and could persuade the court that he
believed it was an empty house then manslaughter is the correct charge
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Alex

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