and a JUNE GREIG was found guilty of the culpable homicide of her husband, The George. In May, an Edinburgh court sentenced her to six years in Cronton Vale women's prison 'to deter other women from killing their husbands'. June Greig had endured nine years When of violence. Her husband had kicked pregnant, slashed her with a knife and burned her with cigarettes. and her daughter had been beaten.
Expecting another beating from her aliken children: I'm going Daddy'. She then stabbed him twice, once through the heart. Violence areas June pleaded self-defence. But the John court rejected her plea. The police, home to intervene, were not called as witnesses. The jury ignored the fact that her husband's previous marriage broke up because of violence. Her children and relatives testified that it was a premeditated act of violence.
How, then, expected to defend herself against her NF husband?
Many are afraid to go the police for fear of rurtaer Dealings. sexual humiliation physical beatings.
the violent assault. In many cases, the violence systematic. three-year survey Edinburgh and showed that a quarter of all violent taking crime is wife-assault.
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she was the Both she June her encourages to kill your outside the home.
and Lothian seem have June Greig College Street, don.
women beaten in the home They often suffer along Fighting back recent cases Glasgow COLIN In effect, the law says that violence against women within marriage is a matter. Yet when June decided to protect herself from her violent husband in the only way she knew how, the law did not hesitate to intervene - against her!
Jule suuea up on 27 There will be all-woman vigil outside the court on the night before, and a mass assembly •day demand June's Violence in the So long as society men lo see women as domestic slaves and objects to gratify male sexual desires, violent assaults on women will continue - inside and WHATCAN YOU DO?
Sponsor the Campaign to Free George Street, Edinburgh.
Write a letter of protest to: The Advocate, MacKay of Calshfern QC; and to the Solicitor General, Nicholas Fairbarn MP, Fielden House, 10 Great THE MARKET LEADERS Disgusting As of the Year ADVERTSlike thispresent men with a vile image of women. They help to violent assaults.
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