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"Hoon gets it right shock"
Posted by: DavidK on Oct 24, 2005 - 11:54 AM
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/4371040.stm
Another person going to the High Court to get a pardon – if in this case only a conditional pardon – for a WW1 military execution.
Hoon turned down a full pardon for all the soldiers concerned when he was Def Sec following the year long review of records by the Adjutant Generals Corps supported by civilian historians and researchers. The conclusion was that while probably half were genuine shell shock cases the remainder of convictions were ‘right’, with a few maybes. And thus pardons to all the soldiers concerned was not reasonable and giving pardons to some would again raise the stigma of the ones who would not be pardoned as they deserved some form of punishment.
I wouldn’t agree that ‘the records don’t exist’ as the current Def Sec said - I have seen some case documentation where I would have had no hesitation in shooting the person involved.
But as he said, perhaps time to let it lie.
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