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Gay killer claims mental abuse (Battered Wife Syndrome)
The Sydney Morning Herald. ^ | 11/28/2002 | Lee Glendinning

Posted on 11/28/2002 11:46:13 PM PST by Young Rhino

A man who pleaded guilty to murdering his two male lovers, disembowelling them and flushing their organs down the toilet yesterday told a Sydney court he was "not a violent man"...Counsel for Peters, Kate Traill, told the court that principles of battered wife syndrome applied in a homosexual relationship when someone had been subjected to years of abuse...

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: australia; batteredwife; gay; murder
Have the Aussies beat Yank lawyers to this novel defense? Can there be a battered wife in a gay male relationship?
1 posted on 11/28/2002 11:46:13 PM PST by Young Rhino
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