
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: MONDAY, May 24, 1993                   TAG: 9305240113
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-6   EDITION: METRO 
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MAN PLEADS GUILTY IN GAY SAILOR'S DEATH

A military court in Yokosuka, Japan, today accepted the guilty plea of an American sailor accused of beating a homosexual shipmate to death.

Airman Apprentice Terry M. Helvey was charged with premeditated murder, which carries a maximum penalty of death. But the judge, Cmdr. David P. Holcombe, accepted a guilty plea for the lesser crime of murder with intent to inflict great bodily harm, which carries a maximum sentence of life in prison.

At a pretrial session May 3, Helvey admitted that he kicked Allen Schindler repeatedly in the head and stomach last October, even after Schindler fell unconscious. But he denied that the attack was premeditated. - Associated Press

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