LETTER:When a killer can walk free

Tuesday 04 July 1995 23:02 BST

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From Mr Humphrey Crum Ewing

Sir: One law for the soldiers, a different law for others? No. One presumption in favour of those engaged in upholding the law, a different presumption for those deliberately breaking it? Yes. To start doing something which is illegal: criminal. To continue, for a moment too long, something which was initially legal: forgivable. Not to delay, for political reasons, a correct judicial decision: honourable.

Yours sincerely,

Humphrey Crum Ewing

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