The woman, Paula Jones, 27, provided her account of what she called "sexual harassment" at a Washington press conference sponsored by a conservative political group seeking to embarrass the president by reviving allegations of his sexual infidelity.

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Previously, adultery could count as provocation, but under the new loss of control defence, sexual infidelity - "real or imagined" - on the part of the victim does not constitute sufficient grounds for reducing murder to manslaughter, the ministry said.

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Infidelity, sexual perversions, arrogance and the full spectrum of morally repugnant character traits will deliver a jury verdict for the prosecution more reliably than actual evidence of wrongdoing.

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