Krishna Maharaj
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Krishna Maharaj (born January 26, 1939) is a Trinidad and Tobago-born British businessman and brother of Ramesh Maharaj, former Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago. In 1987 he was convicted by a Florida court for the murder of two men, and was sentenced to death. His sentence was commuted to life imprisonment in 2002.
In 2001, 300 British politicians, from various different parties, wrote a letter to the Gov. Jeb Bush, asking for a retrial, saying there were 'astonishing flaws' in the case against him and his original trial. He claims to have seven witnesses that place him 25 miles away from the crime scene at the time of the murders.
Some of the more notable signatories include:
- Martin Bell
- Richard Body
- Peter Bottomley
- Virginia Bottomley
- Menzies Campbell
- Lynda Clark
- Ann Clwyd
- David Curry
- Lord Dholakia
- Simon Hughes
- Ken Livingstone
- Charles Kennedy
- Nicholas Lyell
- Dennis Skinner
- Teddy Taylor
Several government law officers (past and present) are included, as are right-wingers and left-wingers.
[edit] See also
- Kenny Richey, another British national in similar circumstances.
