He had been under house arrest after a private prosecution by two local businessmen in a dispute over a £1.5 million oil deal.
After a media campaign a private prosecution was brought by the victim in 1982 under ancient Scottish law.
The Lawrence family pursued a private prosecution against the five.
Under private prosecution, the party must bear all costs of the trial.
There is no private prosecution or grand jury indictment like other countries.
Below is a list of the various provinces and how private prosecutions are dealt with in them.
As such, there is no private prosecution in the Indonesian criminal justice system.
To make it more so, this is a private prosecution for murder.
Stephen's family mounted a private prosecution in 1994, but that too was abandoned two years later.
Both were acquitted in 1996 at the family's private prosecution.