Manafort's defense team argued that the prosecution failed to demonstrate that banks had made loans based on fraudulent representations by Manafort.
"The mandatory life sentence for murder means that an individual can be convicted and given a life sentence without the prosecution having to demonstrate that they had any intention of murder or serious bodily harm being committed, and where their involvement in a murder committed by someone else was minor and peripheral".
The prosecution intended to demonstrate that Hutchinson had made disparaging remarks about the colony's ministers, and to use the October meeting as their evidence.
Sue Hemming, head of special crime and counter-terrorism at the Crown Prosecution Service, added: "Mair has offered no explanation for his actions, but the prosecution was able to demonstrate that, motivated by hate, his premeditated crimes were nothing less than acts of terrorism designed to advance his twisted ideology".
After the verdicts, Sue Hemming, head of special crime and counter-terrorism at the Crown Prosecution Service, said: "Mair has offered no explanation for his actions but the prosecution was able to demonstrate that, motivated by hate, his premeditated crimes were nothing less than acts of terrorism designed to advance his twisted ideology".
The prosecution would need to demonstrate that someone was providing or receiving training.
In this second degree murder case, for example, the prosecution was required to demonstrate that the killing was intentional.
The prosecution was struggling to demonstrate violent intent and the trial was still dragging on when, on 26 March 1960, 69 Africans demonstrating against the pass laws were shot dead by the police in Sharpeville, 35 miles south of Johannesburg.
In response, Mrs. Del Ponte and the prosecution will try to demonstrate that in the words of the indictment, Mr. Milosevic "planned, instigated, ordered, committed or otherwise aided and abetted in a campaign of terror and violence directed at Kosovo Albanian civilians".
Answering questions in the London assembly about the inquiry, he said: "The Metropolitan police submitted a comprehensive file of evidence (in excess of 28,000 pages) to the Crown Prosecution Service seeking to demonstrate that the conduct of a British official amounted to misconduct in public office".
