Winnipeg Free Press

Saturday, February 22, 1997

Issue date: Saturday, February 22, 1997
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Previous edition: Friday, February 21, 1997

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 22, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba C8 saturday free february 1997 world survives after Skull crushed its just a tots Mother says associated press Phoenix Fivey Earold Desiree Ferguson was not expected to survive when a tractor ran Over her crushing her Skull and rupturing a major artery at the base of her doctors who treated her say they know of no other patient who has managed to live after that artery has been but two weeks after the Little brow haired girl says she feels great and is planning a trip to John chief of Pedi Atric neurosurgery at Texas med ical Centre in says Desiree could have been expected to die right this artery supports the body life support he this is not an easy vessel to get you have to have a Little Luck and skill to get into there doctors at Saint Josephs Hospital and medical Centre in Phoenix repaired the basilar artery by Cool ing desires body temperature to and stopping her heart and brain functions for 42 they closed the artery with three Small clamps that will remain in her Robert Spetzler told a news Desiree and two playmates were in a stable owned by friends on when a tractor carrying animal feed knocked her to the the tractor backed Over the girls but luckily it was cushioned somewhat by the Muddy when Desiree arrived at the hos she went directly to surgery to repair a severe laceration caused by a Metal object on the doctors didst notice the artery tear until she underwent a cat scan Days the tear didst kill her immediately because a blood clot formed near the if it didst Wall we be Here said who performed the Stacy desires believes something More powerful is responsible for her daughters the lord took her under his i was always confident she would Ferguson its just a who was released from the Hospital held her grandmothers hand As she looked out at the television cameras and her lip quivered As reporters began questioning the and she said Only that she Felt great and wanted to visit i think she is kind of her Mother Desiree has no movement in her left and doctors dont know if she will regain control of other she has recovered fully from the Accident and the 6 the family says they dont blame the Driver of the who said he was distracted by another child and didst see Winni press if you Are a Winner simply bring your copy in h Ninny ii r press Celebration ass Mountain 4 your number is 38729 contest saturday newspaper Down to our Manitoba r2x monday to Friday am pm even if you Are not a just fill in the grand prize draw entry ballot printed below and mail it All entry ballots for every week will be considered for All grand prize the deadline Date for receipt of Mailin entries is wednesday March Winner names will be listed in the Winnipeg free press on March one number will be but there Are Many Over the duration of this 125 winners will take Home additional rules All Winnipeg free press 125 year Celebration contest number winners must come Down to the Winnipeg free press 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Winnipeg free press q my Home 1 25 year Celebration q store q vending see tomorrows paper for winning no later than March about q 1 2 q 34 q 57 enjoy the free press because mens release embarrasses Justice system 1979 trial fundamentally flawed times news service London in another humiliating reversal for the British jus Tice judges yesterday freed three men who had served 18 years in jail for after prosecutors conceded that their 1979 trial was fundamentally the judges released the three men on bail for a hearing in they Are expected to be exonerated and com though for their years in that would end a Saga that began with a conviction rooted in their Petty criminal records and a confession that the prosecution no longer repeatedly Over the Home secretaries decided not to courts rejected appeals defence lawyers the police ignored new the Case is but the latest in a string of cases that apparently put innocent people in jail for Long the three Michael 35 Vincent his and James were sentenced in 1979 for killing a newspaper delivery Carl then who presumably stumbled upon them during a robbery in the Central eng land town of another Patrick died in defence lawyers say the police tricked him into agreeing to a false confession that was used to con vict him and the the three freed smiling and punching the were immediately surrounded in court by delirious fam friends and Many supporters who had campaigned on their behalf for the younger Hickey went Down to his Knees and kissed the but in a news conference the three were saying they held the whole system of Justice responsible for their the older Hickey said he suffered three breakdowns during his there is no Victory for anybody said Carl whose father Patrick retracted his confession in jail and died there in 1981 at you would not Call this you cant give those years Back to these Michael Hickey kisses ground As Vincent Hickey Michael a lawyer for the told the judge that the evidence showing that a detective fabricated the false confession was Only a Small part of substantial and widespread police malpractice involving a num Ber of very High ranking officers Down to the lowest prime minister John major said yesterday afternoon he was sure there would be an inquiry within the police Force into the but the wider question asked by parliamentarians and much of the British news Media yesterday was Why such glaring errors keep recur other notable cases have embarrassed the often involving Irish people suspected of attacks for the Irish Republican in 1991 the so called Birmingham 6 were freed and their conviction overturned after they served 16 years for a 1974 pub bomb ing that killed 21 in 1992 a tax clerk who spent 16 years in jail for the murder of an 11year old was found to be and Judith Ward was freed in 1992 after challenging a 1974 conviction for murdering nine soldiers in a coach bombing near Only at the Winnipeg free press can you turn your void Cheque into Cash sign up for our reauthorized 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