Death Row Scot - Kenny Richey book out now!

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Personal note:

As some of you will know I've been involved with the Kenny Richey Campaign since late 1997. The case is now awaiting the decision if the prosecutor from Putnum County Court, Ohio shall retry Kenny.

This decision will come either on or after June 30th 2005.

I can remember fondly the draft of this book and many will recognise the backbone of the website comes from many excerpts from the pages of this book.

It gave me great pleasure to post this and to know that a long project has finally become reality.

Thanks to all who've supported Kenny Richey, believed and of course supported the campaign members throughout what seems like a decade of fighting against the injustice committed against him.

Take care,

Bobbie

Kenny Richey Book

Kenny Richey - Death Row Scot

My Brother Kennys Fight for Justice Tom Richey

AUTHOR TOM RICHEY

CATEGORY TRUE CRIME

PUB DATE JULY 2005

ISBN 1 84502 064 2

EXTENT 224 pp.

SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY ONLINE PRICE: 8.99

FORMAT 234mm x 156mm, PBK

ILLUSTRATIONS 8-PAGE B/W PLATE SECTION

The incredible story of Kenny Richey, the innocent Scot on Death Row, told by his brother Tom and published to coincide with Kennys release

When Tom Richey and his elder brother Kenny left their ordinary Edinburgh home to join their American father in a small conservative Ohio town, they could never have imagined the kind of tragedies that would befall them. Within a few years, Tom would be sentenced to sixty-five years in jail for murder and Kenny would find himself on Death Row, having been found guilty of deliberately causing the death of a two-year-old girl by arson.

Told with candour and remarkable perception by Tom Richey, Death Row Scot was written in Toms prison cell. It is the story of why his brothers life came to unravel in such a spectacularly devastating and incredible way. Tom looks at how Kennys death sentence was delivered after a catalogue of mistakes by the investigating police, Kennys legal team and the prosecution:

A carpet from the burnt-out apartment was sent to be tested for the presence of accelerants AFTER it had lain beside petrol pumps.

Samples from the wooden balcony were sent for similar tests AFTER the fire-damage had been repaired.

Kennys legal team advised him to opt for a trial by a bench of three judges rather than a jury trial something a more experienced attorney would NEVER suggest.

What the prosecution said had happened would have been difficult enough but Kenny had a PLASTER CAST on his arm and he was known to be extremely DRUNK when the fire started.

Over the eighteen years since his brothers conviction, Tom has witnessed Kennys hopes being raised and dashed as, time and again, his appeals were refused. But now there are a couple of chinks of light a court has reversed an earlier decision not to hear Kennys request for a writ of habeas corpus and the woman he intends to marry once he is freed is working tirelessly to ensure his release date comes soon.

TOM RICHEY committed murder while he was on LSD and the only thing that saved him from being on death row like his brother was his admission of guilt. He has spent his time in jail profitably, getting himself the education he missed out on when he was young.

Black & White Publishing 2005