Mr. Darwish said he would appeal and would seek a first-degree murder verdict.

As the five murder verdicts were read this afternoon, nearly all the jurors cried, along with Mrs. Hoyt's family and friends.

The second-degree murder verdict will allow the judge to impose a sentence less than life.

The guilty murder verdict carries an automatic term of life imprisonment but the judge could decide if Wright would be awarded parole at any point.

The murder verdict was reduced to manslaughter on 19 July 2006.

And a juror said he was horrified to learn the effect of the first-degree murder verdict that he had agreed Lionel deserved.

The not guilty murder verdict was greeted with public outrage, and was both attacked and defended by media and legal commentators.

However, the judge did not agree with the defence's plea of manslaughter and summed up against her in favour of a murder verdict.

Opas decided to appeal against the murder verdict.

Some members of the jury wept as they returned their murder verdict at the Old Bailey in March 1988.