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Staines case verdict today

Bhubaneswar Sept. 14. The much-awaited verdict in the Graham Staines triple murder case will be pronounced at a local court here tomorrow.

The judgment was to be pronounced by the Khurda District and Sessions Judge, M.N. Patnaik, last Monday but it was deferred till tomorrow as the judge was indisposed.

The case, which dragged on for over two-and-a-half years, has become one of the longest crime-related trials in the State with over 80 witnesses testifying before the court.

Staines, an Australian missionary working in Orissa since 1965, and his two minor sons, Philip (11) and Timothy (7), were burnt to death while asleep in their vehicle outside a church at Manoharpur village in Keonjhar district on January 22, 1999.

PTI

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