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PAIR GET LIFE FOR CHRISTMAS DAY `EXECUTION'
271318 OCT 10
By Damien Brook, PA News
Two men who killed a nightclubber in a Christmas Day "execution" because they
believed he had killed a friend of theirs were jailed for life today.
Ex-soldier Jason Hill died when he was shot in the back of the head from just
inches by James Goodman, 23.
Immediately after the shooting, Goodman passed the murder weapon to his
accomplice, Shane Heskey, 28, a jury at Nottingham Crown Court had heard.
Sentencing the pair, Mr Justice Crane, said: "I have no doubt that what gave
rise to the decision to kill Mr Hill was the belief that he had killed a
friend of yours, Eugene Hinds."
The jury took just over three and a half hours to convict both men of murder.
Goodman was also found guilty of the attempted murder of another man at the
Eden nightclub in Leicester, where Mr Hill was killed.
Both men had denied the charges.
The court had heard how the 7.62mm bullet which killed Mr Hill had exited
from his face and struck bystander Karlton (Correct) Mills in the stomach.
Mr Mills suffered internal bleeding and the bullet recovered from him was
later used as evidence against Goodman and Heskey.
Goodman, of Beaumont Leys, Leicester, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for
the attempted murder, the term to run concurrently with his life sentence.
During the two-week trial the jury heard how Goodman and Heskey, of Filbert
Street East, Leicester, both believed Mr Hill had killed their friend in 1995.
Mr Hill was acquitted of the murder at Nottingham Crown Court in 1996.
But, the court heard, in the early hours of Christmas Day, Hill was at the
Eden Club and, witnesses said, was being aggressive.
Shortly before 4am a single shot was fired. Goodman and Heskey were then seen
on closed circuit television cameras walking through the deserted city.
The prosecution claimed Goodman could be seen handling a gun which Heskey had
carried out of the club following the shooting.
When today's verdicts were read out there were cries from the public gallery
from friends and family of the convicted men.
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BURGLAR JAILED FOR SHOOTING PREGNANT WOMAN
271649 OCT 10
By Shenai Raif, PA News
A masked burglar who shot and nearly killed a pregnant woman was today jailed
for 12 years at the Old Bailey.
Lauren Page, 22, survived after undergoing three emergency operations and
gave birth prematurely to a baby girl the next day.
But she lost her spleen and will have to live for the rest of her life with
the bullet lodged in her abdomen.
As smiling Danny Palmer was lead out of the dock, he turned to Miss Page,
mouthed a threat and motioned shooting a gun to his head.
She fled the court in tears with her mother and left without commenting.
Palmer, of Wanstead, east London, had pleaded guilty to wounding Miss Page on
June 8 this year at her home in Gants Hill, east London, aggravated burglary
and having a firearm.
Mr Justice Jackson jailed him for 12 years on each offence, to be served
concurrently.
Kenneth Pantling
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