Homicide

Question 1

Murder Definition - definition - intention

Answer 1

S4 CJA 1964 - D intends cause death/serious harm -
Intend the Natural and Probable consequences

Question 2

Benko

Answer 2

hammer wife sleeping - regard to intention =context everything

Question 3

Lynch

Answer 3

Argued Life Sentence - Constiution Art 40.4 + ECHR Art 6

Question 4

Holzer

Answer 4

Split V lip - V hit head died - held injury only trivial

Question 5

Hayward

Answer 5

No violence needed - chased wife w Thyroid condition

Question 6

Crosbie & Meehan

Answer 6

UDAM - knife during brawl = Unlawful + Dangerous – Judged Objectively

Question 7

Larkin

Answer 7

Razor mistress - Deliberate act + objectively unlawful and dangerous = Guilty

Question 8

Scarlet

Answer 8

v wouldn’t leave public house - D escorted out, v fell died = not guilty

Question 9

Cato

Answer 9

Supplied and injected heroin = guilty
Contrast Kennedy = where didn’t inject = innocent

Question 10

Kierans

Answer 10

Shotgun to prove wife he not cheating
Accidentally shot - guilty as dangerous act of producing shotgun

Question 11

Dunleavy

Answer 11

Driving wrong side of road killed cyclist -
Dangerous Driving S53 RTA 1961

Question 12

Cullagh

Answer 12

fairground - Gross Negligence to such a high degree as to attract criminal liability