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2 unusual facts about Richard Rougier


Richard Rougier

He presided at the murder trial of Jonathan Jones, accused of killing Harry and Megan Tooze, the parents of his girlfriend, at their farmhouse in Llanharry in mid-Glamorgan in 1993.

Although he sentenced Jones to the mandatory term of life imprisonment, he set no minimum term, and wrote privately to the Home Secretary, Michael Howard, and defence counsel, John Rees QC, to express his doubts over the verdict.



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