Murder of Yvonne Gilford (original) (raw)

Yvonne Gilford was an Australian nurse who was murdered in the King Fahd Military Medical Complex, in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia on 12 December 1996. Two British nurses, Deborah Parry and Lucille "Lucy" McLauchlan, were arrested for the crime. Parry confessed the murder and McLauchlan to being an accessory, though both subsequently claimed to have been coerced into signing the confession. Parry was sentenced to death by beheading, and McLauchlan to eight years' imprisonment and 500 lashes. Parry's sentence was reduced to life imprisonment after Gilford's elder brother Frank accepted a "blood money" payment of approximately £750,000, and both sentences were eventually commuted to time served after personal intervention from King Fahd.