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...

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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