ISSN 0951-8657. Published by Socialist Outlook, PO Box 1109, London N4 2UU. © 1995. All rights reserved. Printed by Newsfax International London E15. EMMA HUMPHREYS has finally been released from prison after the appeal court ruled that she had been wrongly convicted of murdering rather than manslaughter of her violent husband.
She had served ten years in jail: Private Lee Clegg, on a life sentence for murdering an Irish teenager, served just three years.
If woren had not taken up her case, she would still be in prison.
Emma's case is likely to prove a landmark for future trials of women who hit back. But with dozens still serving long sentences, and violent men routinely pleading 'provocation' in their own defence, justice is still a long way off strategy of a police force that sees black communities and to a lesser extent white working class communities as a "problem" to be dealt with through repression. It also avoided addressing the question of the massive levels of poverty faced by the most oppressed sections of the working class.
What did result from the