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Killer’s sentence cut

APPEAL court judges have quashed the murder conviction of a painter and decorator found guilty of stabbing a man on a Gospel Oak council estate.
Edward Green, 33, – known on the streets as ‘Eddie Boo’ – was jailed for life at the Old Bailey in July 2004 for killing father-of-four Jason Gibson, who died from a stab wound in Weedington Road in February 2003.
But the Court of Appeal replaced the murder conviction with one of manslaughter on Monday after a judge ruled evidence had been “logically inconsistent”.
Green’s sentence was slashed from a life term to eight years.
His initial conviction came after both he and co-accused Roy Scott effectively blamed each other for the knifing.
Scott – whose street name is ‘Legal Blacks’ – was later found guilty of manslaughter. His conviction stands.



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