Jimmy Boyle (artist) was named as a financial donor of the Labour Party. The character Nicky Dryden in the 1999 film "The Debt Collector" is reportedly loosely based on Boyle. He lives between France and Morocco with his second wife, Kate Fenwick, a British actress. They married in Marrakech, Morocco on 27 October 2007. Jimmy Boyle (artist) James Boyle (born 17 May 1944) is a Scottish gangster and convicted murderer who became a sculptor and novelist after his release from prison. In 1967, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of another gangland figure, William "Babs" Rooney, but released after 14
S v Marx S v Marx In S v Marx, an important case in South African criminal law, the relationship of the appellant and his wife had deteriorated markedly during the course of their nineteen-year marriage. She had become verbally abusive and aggressive towards him, and humiliated him in public. On the evening in question, she had taunted and abused him. This, coupled with other factors, acted as a trigger for the appellant to shoot her. He was later convicted of the murder of his wife and sentenced to ten years' imprisonment. On appeal against both conviction and sentence, the court held, that