- Krishna Maharaj
Krishna Maharaj (born
January 26 ,1939 ) is aTrinidad and Tobago -born British businessman and brother ofRamesh Maharaj , formerAttorney General of Trinidad and Tobago. In1987 he was convicted by aFlorida court for the double murders of Derrick Moo Young and his son, Duane Young, and was sentenced to death. The alleged motives as to the murders was that the elder victim Derrick Moo Young had fraudulently taken money from Krishna Maharaj's relatives in Trinidad and that Maharaj wanted to confront Moo Young to demand that he repay the money. His sentence was commuted tolife imprisonment in2002 . Maharaj absolutely denies committing the murders for which he was convicted.Maharaj arranged a false meeting with Derrick Moo Young in the DuPont Plaza Hotel. Derrick Moo Young turned up to room 1215 together with his son Duane. Once inside the room, Maharaj is said to have appeared with a gun from behind a door. An argument results, and the father, Derrick Moo Young, was shot to death by Maharaj. The prosecution stated that the son, Duane, was taken upstairs in the suite and shot by Maharaj.
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
*Sir Menzies Campbell
*Lynda Clark
*Ann Clwyd
*David Curry
*Lord Dholakia
*Simon Hughes
*Ken Livingstone
*Charles Kennedy
*Nicholas Lyell
*Dennis Skinner
*Teddy Taylor
*Lord Goldsmith - Former Attorney General of England & WalesSeveral government law officers (past and present) are included, as are right-wingers and left-wingers.ee also
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Kenny Richey , another British national once in similar circumstances.External links
* [http://www.krishnamaharaj.org/ Krishna Maharaj.org]
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