Originally Posted by Loulabelle

I'm sure I heard somewhere that in Britain there's a law where if you die of your injuries up to one year after being attacked or whatever, then the perp can be tried for murder, but if you die of your injuries even a year and one day afterwards then it can only be attempted murder.

I'm not sure if that's right exactly - perhaps I dreamt it, but it would make sense that there's some time scale involved surely?

But if we're going down that road, how about every rapist whose victim eventually commits suicide or becomes a substance abuser and dies from that? Shouldn't they be charged with murder too?