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I have been asked to advise the Crown Prosecution Service on the appropriate homicide charges to bring against Fred and Mike.
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I have been asked to advise the Crown Prosecution Service on the appropriate homicide charges to bring against Fred and Mike. In English criminal law homicide is a generic term covering a number of offences. All homicides are concerned with the unlawful killing of a human being; what distinguishes them is either the state of mind of the defendant who caused the death, or the defences available. The most serious offence which may have realistically occurred in this case is murder. Murder, a common law offence, is the most serious of all offences and is punishable by a mandatory life sentence. The Actus Reus for murder is 'the unlawful killing of another human being', that is the death of a victim that is a 'life in being', Re Poulton1 where it was established that a 'life in being' meant that a child must be expelled from its mother's body, a foetus does...
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