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SAS MAN 'SELFISHLY MURDERED SICK SON'
By Robert Stansfield
By Robert Stansfield
A FORMER SAS soldier selfishly murdered his terminally ill 10-year-old son then claimed it was a mercy killing, a court heard yesterday.
Andrew Wragg, 38, told his wife he looked into disabled Jacob's eyes and saw he had no future.
But prosecutors claim it was a "selfish killing" because Wragg could not cope with his son's illness.
He is on trial for a second time after a jury failed to reach a verdict on a murder charge earlier this year. Wragg smothered Jacob with a pillow then dialled 999, Lewes crown court heard.
Prosecutor Philip Katz QC said: "It was Mr Wragg's perceived way out of a situation he found too difficult to cope with."
Yesterday he denied murdering Jacob who had the rare degenerative disease Hunter Syndrome.