Evolution/Creationism Argument Ends in Manslaughter

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Evolution/Creationism Argument Ends in Manslaughter

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A FRUIT-picking trip to southern New South Wales ended in the death of a Scottish backpacker who became embroiled in a bizarre row about creationism and evolution.

English backpacker Alexander Christian York, 33, was today sentenced to a maximum of five years jail for the manslaughter of Scotsman Rudi Boa in January last year.

Mr Boa, 28, died on January 27 after being stabbed by York at the Blowering Holiday Park, near Tumut.

Mr Boa and his girlfriend Gillian Brown arrived in Australia from Scotland at the end of 2005 and went to Tumut to pick fruit as their first port of call on a round the world holiday.

York had been in the country since April 2005.

The Scottish couple and York, neighbours at the caravan park, were becoming friends and spent the night of January 27 drinking at the Star Hotel in Tumut.

...The couple, both biomedical scientists, had been arguing the case of evolution, while York had taken a more biblical view of history.

...Although the altercation had been defused by the time the Scottish tourists left the hotel, it became inflamed again at the caravan park when all three were quite drunk.

According to Ms Brown, York was making dinner when he attacked the couple outside his tent, stabbing Mr Boa with a kitchen knife as the argument escalated.

...In the NSW Supreme Court sitting in Wagga Wagga in July, York was found guilty of manslaughter but acquitted of murdering Mr Boa.

He was today sentenced to a maximum of five years in jail, with a non-parole period of three years.

He will be eligible for release on January 26, 2009.

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Nothing particularly funny about somebody getting drunk, having an argument - immaterial about what - and then stabbing someone to death. And the topic really is immaterial. Violent drunks are violent drunks.
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