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17 results found for '"Carol Orr"' in Contributors.
Gregory Hobbins convicted of manslaughter (1992)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Carol Orr reports from the Old Bailey where Coldstream guardsman Gregory Hobbins was found guilty of manslaughter and unlawful wounding after he held his ex-girlfriend hostage, shot a neighbour and seriously...
David Yallop, screenwriter, sues BBC (1992)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Carol Orr reports on the court case won by writer David Yallop, who sued the BBC for breach of contract after being sacked in 1989. He wrote only 10 of the 104 scripts he was commissioned for.
Kings Cross firefighter awarded compensation for stress (1992)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Carol Orr reports on the compensation awarded to 44 year-old fireman, Paul Hale for stress he suffered after the Kings Cross fire. Assistant Divisional Fire Officer, John Faulkner describes Paul Hale’s...
Matrix Churchill trial acquits defendants (1992)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Press conference
Carol Orr reports on the trial of three business executives of the Matrix Churchill company, accused of illegally exporting arms to Iraq prior to the Gulf War, who have been acquitted at the Old Bailey in...
Murderer imprisoned for life (1992)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Report on the sentencing at the Old Bailey of 21-year-old jewellery salesman Mark Paul, who beat 28-year-old John Lavender to death with a baseball bat in Battersea, London. With comment from Detective...
Jamaican death sentence reprieve (1993)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report on the death penalty in Jamaica and other Commonwealth countries. Two Jamaican men sentenced to death have been granted a reprieve. A committee of seven Law Lords at the Privy Council in London ruled...
Michael Hickey seeks release (1993)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report on Michael Hickey, one of the three men serving life sentences for the murder of paperboy Carl Bridgewater in 1978, winning the right to have his case for release referred to the parole board....
Austin Donnellan aquitted of rape (1993)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Report on the acquittal of 21-year-old Austin Donnellan, an undergraduate at Kings College London accused of the rape of a fellow student as she lay intoxicated after a drunken Christmas party on university...
Case against Birmingham Six policemen abandoned (1993)
- Genre
- News report; Press conference
Carol Orr reports from the Old Bailey on the decision by Mr Justice Garland to abandon the case against 3 former West Midlands detectives after the convictions of the Birmingham Six were quashed on appeal 18...
Murderer sentenced for killing Gillian Bennett (1993)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Carol Orr reports from the Old Bailey on the sentencing of a London car salesman, Winston Anthony Goulbourne, who brutally stabbed and set fire to a former customer, Gillian Bennett, and the recommendation...