Trial put battered wives on agenda

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The case of Sara Thornton, who has recently been found not guilty of murdering her violent husband, has served to bring considerable public attention to the plight of battered women. Women in her position are now generally receiving much more understanding, but there is a long way to go before the problem of domestic violence, which accounts for one in four of all recorded violent crimes, is resolved. Appeal judges are now taking into account the cumulative effects of long-term violence on women who have killed a partner who has been battering them.

Cases, Abused women, Thornton, Sara

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Frail eccentric who wields a poisonous pen

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Widow of former deputy head of MI6 George Kennedy Young Geryke Young publishes and distributes racist and anti-Semitic pamphlets in the name of Ad Hoc Publications. She believes racial integration endangers white Western authority. Mrs Young, 79, was born in the Dutch East Indies. She began distributing her material in the 1970's but from the address of the Society for Individual Freedom.

Publishing industry, Race relations, Authorship, Racism, Antisemitism, Young, Geryke, Ad Hoc Publications

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