'Give up' plea to fasting killer.A killer given life for murdering his ex-wife has started a hunger strike hunger strike, refusal to eat as a protest against existing conditions. Although most often used by prisoners, others have also employed it. For example, Mohandas Gandhi in India and Cesar Chavez in California fasted as religious penance during otherwise political or in a bid to prove his innocence innocence, in botany: see madder. Innocence See also Inexperience, Naïveté. Inquisitiveness (See CURIOSITY.) Insanity (See MADNESS.) Adam and Eve naked in Eden; knew no shame. [O.T. . Gordon Gordon, river in W Tasmania, Australia, 125 mi (200 km) long. Flowing from mountains to the W coast, its main tributaries are the Franklin and Denison from the N, and Serpentine and Olga to the S. McFetrich claims he took the rap to protect the real killer. He has only been taking cups of tea in his cell at Peterhead Peterhead (pētərhĕd`), town (1991 pop. 16,804), Aberdeenshire, NE Scotland, on a peninsula on the North Sea. It is the easternmost town, with a good harbor, of Scotland. prison and is demanding police re-open his case. But his family pleaded with him to give up his protest last night. Mum Veronica warned him: "Don't destroy yourself son." She added at her home in Yorkshire: "Gordon has never told us the full story of what happened when his first wife was killed. "He has never been a violent man and I could never accept that he killed her. "I am completely shocked by what he is doing, I don't want him to die. "All I can say to him is the family will do all it can to help." Gordon's sister, Maureen Waterhouse, added: "For the sake of his kids he should give it up now." McFetrich, 34, of Aberdeen, was given life for the November 1994 stabbing stab v. stabbed, stab·bing, stabs v.tr. 1. To pierce or wound with or as if with a pointed weapon. 2. To plunge (a pointed weapon or instrument) into something. 3. of ex-wife Jackie. A Scottish Prison Service spokeswoman said last night: "Mr McFetrich has told prison staff he is not going to eat any food. "His condition at this time is stable and is not giving us cause for concern." |
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