Originally posted by Xuxa the White@Jul 6 2004, 01:27 AM
As I have said before, he should have been executed...not coddled and lionized!
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He certainly isn't in danger of being executed.
Crowd roars Pownceby on to Athens
04 July 2004
By TARA ROSS
A 400-strong crowd roared controversial boxer Soulan Pownceby into the ring in Christchurch yesterday for his final fight before the Athens Olympics.
The bout against Australian Rudi Suchanek at Legends Bar was his first public appearance since controversy blew up over his selection for the Olympics team when it was revealed he was jailed in 1995 for killing his five-month-old baby daughter.
But when he threw his punches yesterday, it was imp
ossible not to think of baby Jeanette. Pownceby was jailed for four years after a court heard how she died with head injuries so severe her brain had split - and with a severe chest inju
ry sustained just weeks earlier.
He tearfully apologised for doing "things which were terribly wrong" before flying out to Tahiti, and was backed by Olympic and boxing officials.
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br>[color=red]Just as an aside a television commentator criticised the New Zealand Herald for publishing the article about Soulan's daughter's grave - apparently it was thought terribly 'racist' and a 'new low' for the paper.[/color]