Praise as ‘decent bloke’ spared jail Voluntary euthanasia campaigner Lesley Martin has applauded the sentence handed down to Ian Crutchley for attempting to murder his terminally ill mother, saying the judge treated him as a “decent Kiwi bloke”.
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