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Article: From Peckham to Death Row Krishna Maharaj, a businessman from London, has spent 13 years in prison in Florida for shooting his business partners. He had an alibi, a judge who was led away from the trial in cuffs, and two victims who were mixed up in drug-running. Now he has 293 British politicians protesting his innocence. They could be all that stand between him and the electric chair...
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 7, 1999
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Chances are that you have never heard of Krishna Maharaj. The
Queen Mother may vaguely recollect him - one of his stable of
thoroughbred race horses once beat one of hers in a race at Ascot.
Some south London Rolls-Royce dealership may still have his name on a
yellowing Rolodex card. A long time ago, when he was a millionaire
banana-importer living in Peckham, he had a fleet of Rollers. In
fact, he had 24 of them.
But then Maharaj, 60, a British citizen born in Trinidad, has been
out of circulation for a while. Out of sight and out of mind. We are
not, it seems, very good about keeping up with our own when they fall
into disgrace, especially when it is in a foreign land and when that ...
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