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WTF Times: 'schoolboys die in cliff fall'

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Nowisthemonthofmaying · 09/05/2019 06:54

How about: schoolboys AND THEIR MOTHER are brutally murdered by violent man?

I am so sick of the way this stuff is reported. If murdering your family is a valid response to 'not being able to see a way forward' then why aren't people doing it all the time?
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BeardyButton · 09/05/2019 07:54

So. Bloody. Awful. And its all about his narrative. His loss of faith. His finances. NONE of these things are relevant. Its not a multiple suicide. Its a murder.

Ali1cedowntherabbithole · 09/05/2019 07:51

What the fuck is the relevance to the value of their house?

I thought there had recently been guidelines agreed around media reporting of domestic violence?

Awful reporting.

AttilaTheMeerkat · 09/05/2019 07:48

Family annihilation is not the sole preserve of the man; there have also been cases of women doing this to family members too. This is a societal issue and one we cannot readily put down to some random act of lunacy.

Loopytiles · 09/05/2019 07:48

I saw this and am going to complain.

It also refers to the father having “lost faith in god”.

The way family annihilators are reported is shit.

Floisme · 09/05/2019 07:45

Compare and contrast the Daily Mail

I can't see it at all in The Guardian (looks like they last covered it in May 2018t).

Funny old world.

MsJeminaPuddleduck · 09/05/2019 07:45

I don't think the 'why' should even be in the headline.

As it is though the excuse/ justification gets higher billing than the wife's brutal murder

Soubriquet · 09/05/2019 07:43

That is disgusting

No mention of his poor wife, and the fact that they “fell” makes it sound like an accident rather than suicide/murder

AttilaTheMeerkat · 09/05/2019 07:42

This article also writes about the "sympathy" shown towards the family annihialator (point 10).

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/anatomy-of-family-murder-killing-spree-home-invasion-a7639966.html

Myusernameismud · 09/05/2019 07:42

It was Level up, the Feminist organisation who worked to change the way DV is reported in the media. I have my own issues with Level Up (they believe TWAW) but it will be interesting to see what their view on this is, and if it meets the new guidelines.

powershowerforanhour · 09/05/2019 07:39

Just another family annihilator. Again.

ThumbWitchesAbroad · 09/05/2019 07:39

Title should be "Murder suicide - man selfishly kills his wife, 2 sons and himself because he can't work his problems out"

Fucksake. Angry

GassyAss · 09/05/2019 07:38

FFS. The story is a man planned to kill a woman and her two children. She doesn’t even get a mention in the headline.

thelastgoldeneagle · 09/05/2019 07:36

Have just tweeted the journalist. What bizarre reporting.

'This is a terribly sad case and I think DS Flynn put it very well when he said that Adelino simply could not see a way forward,” Mr Cummings said.'

Who gives a flying fuck about how the murdering bastard felt? Why not focus on his wife and kids? If he felt that suicidal he could have killed himself and left his family.

CountFosco · 09/05/2019 07:35

It's so bizarre this sideways reporting of violence against women. Do the writers not realise how back to front it is.

ZeldaPrincessOfHyrule · 09/05/2019 07:34

What the actual fuck?! I can't believe how casually they throw in the line about the mother's fate. Oh yeah, she was brutally murdered, stabbed 60 times... they may as well have made it a footnote and been done with it. The poor woman, those poor children. I'm so sick of the shit way some 'journalists' report things like this as if it's the father who's the biggest victim. He's a family annihilator but somehow the sympathy lies with him?
Bollocks.

Hatemadeupwords · 09/05/2019 07:24

He drugged the boys and made them walk up to beachy head, then the coroner has the audacity to say it's 'not clear if they jumped, fell or were pushed' wtaf?????

Outanabout · 09/05/2019 07:23

No, 'father kills wife and children when he fears losing control' would be more apt.

AttilaTheMeerkat · 09/05/2019 07:21

No mention of the words "family annihilator" either in that poorly written article, that is what he became.

Tragically too this will happen to another family.

Grimbles · 09/05/2019 07:21

Maybe she just fell onto the knife multiple times Hmm

SonicVersusGynaephobia · 09/05/2019 07:21

She's not even fucking mentioned until the third paragraph!

3dogs2cats · 09/05/2019 07:21

This is dreadful.

IDrinkAndISewThings · 09/05/2019 07:20

That's horrendous! I get that they don't want a sensationalist headline a la The Sun, but that headline reads as though the stumbled and fell on a family walk, and the murder of the wife being completely ignored is just bizarre. "Father kills family and self after crisis of faith" would have been more apt.

LizzieSiddal · 09/05/2019 07:17

Thank you Upzadaizy! I’ll have a look at her Twitter.

Upzadaizy · 09/05/2019 07:15

Sorry that was in answer to @LizzieSiddal

Upzadaizy · 09/05/2019 07:15

Karen Ingala Smith.

I imagine her Twitter feed will have further information.

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