Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Murder
- unlawful killing
- not in self defence or with
legal permission (Re A)
- creature in being
- not a person on life support (Malcharek
and Steel) or a foetus (ag's ref)
- malice aforethought
- must have direct (Vickers) or
oblique (Woolin) intention to kill
or cause serious harm
- within the queens peace
- must not be during war time (R v Page)
- killing a prisoner of war
will amount to murder
- common law defintion
- Lord Coke in 1797 defined murder
- the unlawful killing of a
creature in being within the
queen's peace with malice
aforethought
- legal (R v Kimsey) and factual (R v White) causation applies