Death Penalty Deal Made In Case Of British Poker Champion
Britain Wouldn't Extradite Bebb-Jones If Death Penalty Sought
POSTED: 7:50 am MST February 1, 2010
GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. -- A Colorado prosecutor has agreed not to seek the death penalty against a British poker champion accused of killing his wife and dumping her body after a trip to Dinosaur National Monument. Marcus Bebb-Jones is in custody in his native England and is fighting extradition to stand trial in Colorado for the murder of Sabrina Bebb-Jones. The wife was last seen in 1997; a Garfield County rancher found her skull in 2004.On Nov. 18, 2009 Scotland Yard agents arrested Bebb-Jones on charges that he murdered his wife. He was taken into custody at the home he shared with his mother in Kidderminster, Worcestershire on a U.S. warrant issued a month earlier.
District Attorney Martin Beeson has agreed not to seek the death penalty. England bans the death penalty, and by treaty with the United States, it won't extradite a suspect here unless the death penalty is taken off the table. Bebb-Jones and his wife were living in Grand Junction, Colo., at the time of her disappearance.
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