HEAT BLAMED FOR CRIMES 24 Jul 1956 It’s only a matter of time before we get these pleadings in our courts.

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HEAT BLAMED FOR CRIMES 24 Jul 1956 It’s only a matter of time before we get these pleadings in our courts.

HEAT Blamed FOR CRIMES (1956, July 24). The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 – 1995), p. 6. Retrieved August 21, 2020, from https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/91218549?searchTerm=heat%20wave&searchLimits=dateFrom=1956-01-01|||dateTo=1956-12-31#

ROME, Monday (AAP

Reuter).—Police yesterday blamed a heatwave and violent summer storms as being ”largely responsible” for a crime-wave which has brought 11 murders and 28 woundings to Italy in the last two weeks.

Seventeen people have been charged with murder or attempted murder mostly under the heading of “crimes of passion”, but an old law, which allowed a court to take weather into consideration when judging crimes of passion has now been repealed.