AC 4.3

Question 1

3 types of campaigns

Answer 1

• newspaper campaign
• individual campaign
• pressure group campaign

Question 2

newspaper campaign

Answer 2

• A year and a day

Question 3

A year and a day - about

Answer 3

• a year and a day rule - assaulted and live for over a year, offenders won’t be tried for murder
• 1992 - Michael Gibson, serious assault by David Clark
• in coma for over a year and a day - died due to injury
• David Clark didn’t get charged for murder

Question 4

A year and a day - parties involved

Answer 4

• Michael’s mother, Pat
• Northern Echo Newspaper - launched ‘Justice for Michael’ campaign - petition to scrap a year and a day rule

Question 5

A year and a day - law/policies

Answer 5

• 1994, bill wasn’t passed
• 1996, Law Reform Act passed

Question 6

Individual campaign

Answer 6

• Bobby Tumbull

Question 7

Bobby Tumbull - about

Answer 7

• 2012, Tumbull’s mother, sister, and aunt shot dead by the aunt’s partner, Michael Atherton
• owned 6 weapons - 3 shotguns - had a history of domestic violence
• had guns removed then returned
• killed himself after