A MAN who killed his feminist companion was acquitted of murder at Winchester Crown Court last Thursday, prisonment for 'manslaughter'.
because she refused to have a monogamous relationship with him.
paign for Nuclear Disarmament and of the chester women's liberation group. Woods killed her by clubbing, her own bedroom. kitchen and wrapped it round with two socks 'to minimise the suffering' claimed the defence.
with sex you are playing with fire. It may be that conventions that surround sex are to prevent people from burning themselves. have a monogamous relationship with a man, then it's your own look out if you get murdered. plications of the judge's remarks couldn't have been clearer.
Bristow's feminism and political convictions. said: 'Romantic love was childish to her. Mary was in a stage of rebellion, an idealist and devotee of many different causes. 'Implication: being a feminist and a peace campaianer, she aot what was comina to her women can rely on the law. It comes in the wake of hitch hiker was guilty of 'contributory negligence, and the decision in the private prosecution rape case went on to make it explicit that if a woman drunk or asleep, rape couldn't be proved.
rape and murder provided that you re monogamous, apolitical, non-feminist and don't drink or sleep. And provided that you're not a woman either.
and merely sentenced to six years imold Peter Woods, Mary Bristow was an active member of the Cam• Winstrangling and then smothering her in Woods fetched a meat-tenderiser mallet from the The judge, summing up the case, said: 'If you play In other words, if you are a woman and refuse to The imMuch was made by the defence counsel of Mary He The Winchester case shows precisely how much the case in which the judge said that a raped woman in Scotland in which the judge said that rape couldn't be proved unless resistance could be proved. He was then she couldn't resist and thus In other words, the law might defend you against