News (Media Awareness Project) - UK: Drug Shears Killer Is Jailed |
| Title: | UK: Drug Shears Killer Is Jailed |
| Published On: | 2006-10-10 |
| Source: | Mirror, The (UK) |
| Fetched On: | 2008-01-13 01:05:22 |
DRUG SHEARS KILLER IS JAILED
A SOLDIER who killed the dad of a childhood friend in a frenzied
attack after smoking strong home-grown cannabis was jailed yesterday.
Paratrooper Laurie Draper, 31, bludgeoned schoolteacher 53-year-old
Paul Butterworth with a pair of garden shears last March 7, leaving
his body "mutilated and barely recognisable".
He was given 10 years for manslaughter after St Alban's crown court
heard the drugs had sent him into an uncontrollable psychotic rage.
Draper had smoked the drug with Mr Butterworth and pal Ashley in
Hoddesdon, Herts.
Judge Findlay Baker QC told him: "This was an appalling attack of
extreme and persistent violence. And I have no doubt it would not
have happened of you had not consumed cannabis."
A SOLDIER who killed the dad of a childhood friend in a frenzied
attack after smoking strong home-grown cannabis was jailed yesterday.
Paratrooper Laurie Draper, 31, bludgeoned schoolteacher 53-year-old
Paul Butterworth with a pair of garden shears last March 7, leaving
his body "mutilated and barely recognisable".
He was given 10 years for manslaughter after St Alban's crown court
heard the drugs had sent him into an uncontrollable psychotic rage.
Draper had smoked the drug with Mr Butterworth and pal Ashley in
Hoddesdon, Herts.
Judge Findlay Baker QC told him: "This was an appalling attack of
extreme and persistent violence. And I have no doubt it would not
have happened of you had not consumed cannabis."
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