AIBU to question why taxpayers should fund Ian Huntley’s cremation?

It's incoherent, and not logically consistent.

Wtf does that even mean, are you high OP?

But you haven't put forward a single valid argument. So I'm not convinced that your perspective is "as valid"?

It baffles me that you can't see this clinical disposal of the remains is the only thing to be done. You're framing it as something that benefits his mother. Like it's special treatment she doesn't deserve. It's not. It's standard procedure.

Quite.

Huntley managed to do what he did because there was no importance placed on crimes against working class women and girls. The Police didn't care that there were multiple accusations of violence and rape. The Head Master of the school didn't place importance on a DBS for a man who would be working with girls. So let's leave the women, who have done nothing, except share DNA with Huntley, alone. People need to grow up, there's a body that needs attending to, under the law. The longer it is in storage, the more it costs. They are getting £3k to dispose of it. The Daughter is NOK in terms of compensation and she doesn't want it.

id say its a debate topic overall but seems in bad taste

This thread is a waste of time?

"she" doesn't get the cremation

But if the mum paid for a funeral, idiots like the OP will be posting on Mumsnet about how terrible it is that his mum is commemorating the death.
She faces vilification if she takes responsibility or doesn't take responsibility for him.
The fact that the victims family suffer, doesn't cancel out her suffering. Both can exist. Neither are responsible for his crimes.

We don't know how much his mother has suffered. And it isn't suffering parent top trumps either.

Not as much as Holly and Jessica’s Parents have suffered and will continue to suffer for the rest of their lives.

When there's only one person on your side of the debate, it's not debatable.

You haven't answered why you keep implying that his mother is responsible for all the bad things he's done. Or what you think a reasonable, practical alternative would be to the state providing a basic cremation.
Do you even realise that one of the reasons the govt have a say in this, is to protect the victims? So that there's nothing public that can draw attention?

Because if someone dies with no money the local council pays for a very basic funeral

in this case he was murdered in prison, he has no money and who knows if his mother has, and anyway it’s not her responsibility, he’s over 18, therefore an adult, with no estate to pay for it

as others have said, small price to pay compared to the annual cost of keeping him locked up

Because you don’t have to pay for your adult child’s cremation / funeral. She’s damned if she does and damned if she doesn’t in this situation. She once held him in her arms and loved him, surely you can have empathy for her and separate what he chose to do from her as a human being? There’s never been even a suggestion that she did anything ‘wrong’ or covered for him in any way. If she gave him a remotely sentimental or above bare minimum send off she would be public enemy number one. I imagine someone has told her this is the best way to do it.

It just sounds a bit stupid tbh.

I mean, there is a dead body. The state is responsible for the dead body. The state needs to dispose of the dead body appropriately.

It isn't rocket science.

I googled about his mum visiting, and the only information I could find was about the times she has visited him after attacks (this, and the previous when he'd had his throat slit). Doing that wouldn't mean she supported him. She may have done of course, but on the flip side she may have wanted to be involved in decisions as NOK, or even to be there to witness if he died.

I think it's a bit crass to declare what you'd do in that situation. It's so incomprehensible as a parent that I don't think any of us could really know how we'd actually react.

The disposal of his body needs to happen and the state is responsible for him, not his mother. Stop making something over nothing.

You know he can't literally be flushed down the toilet, or thrown into a skip, or fed to safari park lions. The body needs hygienic disposal, for the good of society. That's it. His mother's assets, or lack of them, are none of our business.

Yeah that's definitely the weird bit in this whole thread

OP. No one with an ounce of intelligence - cognitive and/or emotional - is making a fuss over the state paying for a minimialist cremation for a criminal who died in prison. Making a fuss over this doesn't make you good, righteous, passionate, caring, moral or whatever the hell you think it is you are demonstrating by taking such a malicious stance.

As a mother who adores her children I fully agree. If one of my children murdered anyone unless self defence I would never want any contact again ! The shame of knowing I had produced such a vile creature would destroy me forever.