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CENTRAL NEWS SERVICE, PRESS ROOM, CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT, OLD BAILEY,

LONDON EC4,TEL:01 236 O116.

HIGH COURT, NOVEMBER 28, 1986/AVM.

WOODS 1

A LIVERPOOL MAN WHO HIT HIS WIFE’S ‘PARAMOUR’ WITH A CLAW
HAMMER TODAY FRIDAY LOST HIS APPEAL AGAINST A NINE-MONTH PRISON
SENTENCE.

FATHER-OF-TWO DENNIS WOODS, A 36-YEAR-OLD SELF-EMPLOYED ALARM
FITTER OF CLAYFORD CRESCENT, WAS JAILED BY LIVERPOOL CROWN COURT IN
SEPTEMBER AFTER PADING GUILTY TO UNLAWFUL WOUNDING.

HIS CO-ACCUSED, A MAN NAMED GRANT, RECEIVED SIX MONTHS.

WOOD’S COUNSEL, MR.

DAVID AUBREY,TOLD THE CRIMINAL APPEAL
COURT IN LONDON THAT WOODS HAD A SENSE OF GRIEVANCE ABOUT THE
DISPARITY IN SENTENCES.

DISMISSING HIS APPEAL, MR.

JUSTICE ROSE SAID:’HE RECEIVED A
VERY LENIENT SENTENCE’.

AGREEING, THE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE, LORD LANE,
INTERJECTED: ‘HE HIT HIS WIFE’S PARAMOUR ON THE HEAD WITH A CLAW
HAMMER’

HE SAID WOODS AND GRANT USED HAMMERS TO BREAK INTO A MONTEREY
ROAD NEWSAGENT’S SHOP IN MAY AND GAIN ACCESS TO A FIRST-FLOOR FLAT
OCCUPIED BY A MAN NAMED MURGATROYD.

‘MURGATROYD HAD BEEN IN BED WITH WOODS’ WIFE BUT QUICKLY GOT OUT

AND PUT HIS TROUSERS ON’, SAID MR.

JUSTICE ROSE.

‘HE GRAPPLED WITH WOODS, WHO STRUCK HIM WITH A CLAW HAMMER.

‘GRANT THREW MURGATROYD ON THE FLOOR AND HE WAS STRUCK A
SUCCESSION OF HAMMER BLOWS.

HE HAD FOUR HEAD WOUNDS WHICH REQUIRED A
TOTAL OF 12 STITCHES, TWO FRACTURED RIBS AND SIX CIRCULAR BRUISES ON
HIS BACK PLAINLY CAUSED BY A HAMMER’.

THE JUDGE SAID WOODS TOLD POLICE HE HAD SEEN RED WHEN HE SAW
MURGATROYD RUN OUT OF THE BEDROOM AND HIS WIFE IN BED.

MR.

JUSTICE ROSE DECLARED THERE WAS NO SUBSTANCE IN WOODS’
GRIEVANCE OVER THE DIFFERENCE IN SENTENCES.

‘IT WAS HIS IDEA TO LOOK FOR HIS WIFE.

IT WAS HIS CAR THEY WENT

IN.

IT WAS HIS HAMMERS THEY USED AND HIS IDEA TO SMASH THE DOOR

PANEL — AND HE WAS THE FIRST TO USE A HAMMER ON MURGATROYD’.

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