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| Britons Give Evidence for Millionaire on Florida Death Row |
| By Reuters |
| Published: 03/27/2002 |
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Three Britons, including a member of parliament, gave trans-Atlantic video evidence to a U.S. court Monday in a bid to save a British millionaire from the death penalty. Krishna Maharaj, once a noted British racehorse owner, has spent 15 years on Florida's death row for the shooting deaths of two business rivals but has been granted a resentencing hearing by a Florida court. Conservative Member of Parliament Peter Bottomley, prominent horse trainer Clive Brittain and former wrestler Mike McManus gave character testimony on Maharaj's behalf through a trans-Atlantic satellite link-up from London to a Florida courtroom. 'The main point I made was that nothing he has said to me that can be disproved has been disproved, and everything he said that can be proved has been borne out,' said Bottomley, who has spearheaded a campaign to have Maharaj's convictions quashed. Maharaj's conviction for the 1986 murders of businessmen Duane and Derrick Moo Young in a Florida hotel room was a spectacular twist in a classic rags-to-riches tale. Maharaj moved to Britain from Trinidad in 1960 and began work as a van driver. Soon afterwards, he started importing bananas and amassed a fortune that allowed him to invest heavily in his twin passions --racehorses and Rolls-Royces. His resentencing hearing comes less than two weeks after Briton Tracy Housel was executed in Georgia for the 1985 murder of a female hitchhiker, despite sharp protests from Britain. British MPs have called for a new trial for Maharaj, claiming the case has been clouded by irregularities in the original trial, which included the arrest of the presiding judge four days into testimony for bribery in another case. In 1999, more than 300 British politicians signed a petition calling for Maharaj's release. Last year Bottomley wrote to Florida Governor Jeb Bush asking him to look at the case. |
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