Man not guilty - Pregnant Woman
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Topic: Man not guilty - Pregnant Woman
Posted By: Lissy
Subject: Man not guilty - Pregnant Woman
Date Posted: 16 June 2007 at 9:18am
Man not guilty of trying to murder pregnant womanA High Court jury has found a Wellington man not guilty of attempting to kill his former partner while she was pregnant with triplets. But Paul Campbell, 29, was found guilty of two counts of injuring with intent and one of assault. At the High Court in Wellington, jurors deliberated for about 10 hours before finding Campbell not guilty of attempting to murder Celia O'Donoghue, 24. He was also found not guilty of an alternative charge of disabling her by rendering her unconscious, as well as not guilty of wounding, assault with intent to injure and a less serious alternative of assaulting a female of five counts of assault. Campbell is in custody and will be sentenced on July 26. Justice Jillian Mallon ordered a retrial on a second wounding charge on which the jury could not agree. The prosecution claimed he attacked Ms O'Donoghue while she was heavily pregnant with triplets, strangling her twice until she passed out. He also hit her several times, bruising her lower back and giving her a black eye. Ms O'Donoghue's father, prominent Wellington crown prosecutor Mark O'Donoghue, was one of the crown witnesses in the week-long trial. Campbell's defence was that the alleged incidents did not happen. Yesterday he told the court he got angry at a party and pushed Ms O'Donoghue against the side of a van, then punched the van. None of the other alleged assaults happened and witnesses were mistaken, he said. Ms O'Donoghue had the triplets in September 2003, separated from Campbell, and laid a complaint with police in March 2005. ------------- Harlan Drew DOB: 06.12.06 & Stepmum to Ethan & Christian, DOB: 25.02.99 |
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Posted By: BaAsKa
Date Posted: 16 June 2007 at 6:22pm
what is wrong with the justice system in this instance!!!??:?
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Posted By: Kels
Date Posted: 16 June 2007 at 7:58pm
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OMGosh I never even heard the story. TERRIBLE!!!!! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
Busy mum to Miss 15yrs, Miss 10yrs and Master 4yrs |
Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 16 June 2007 at 9:08pm
| i guess it's the big diff between attempting to kill and assaulting. they would have to prove that what he did, he did to kill her. sometimes pretty hard to prove. |
Posted By: Emma_GabysMama
Date Posted: 18 June 2007 at 1:14pm
omg that's just disgusting  ------------- Emma - 23 proud Mama to... Gabrielle Jayda-Lee 26.10.06  
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Posted By: MyMinis
Date Posted: 25 June 2007 at 7:44am
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thats horrible, he shouldnt have been let away with that, he couldve killed 4 people out of that assult ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: miss
Date Posted: 25 June 2007 at 9:24am
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I would say that is what happens when you wait 2 years to lay an assault complaint - so much harder to prove 2 years after the fact. You need to do it when the injuries are there so there is evidnce. Sad, but true. -------------  
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Posted By: Kels
Date Posted: 25 June 2007 at 9:37am
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Yeah leaving it 2years is a long time. ------------- http://lilypie.com">
Busy mum to Miss 15yrs, Miss 10yrs and Master 4yrs |
Posted By: lil_miss
Date Posted: 25 June 2007 at 5:58pm
| Truely sad :S |