Anyone else have a visceral reaction to the picture in the news of Axel the murderer

[Newyearnewmewoooop]

I’m not going to link or post his picture as he’s beyond evil and I can’t bear to look at him. I don’t want to be a grief vampire at all, that’s not what this post is about. I just wondered if anyone else has experienced such a response to it or anything else? I haven’t experienced it before

@UnicornWorld

Exactly this. What a stupid and self absorbed comment from @AlbertCamusflage

Irs probably one of the worst comments I've ever seen on here. Imagine taking a topic like this and thinking of an opportunity to show how clever you are.

Absolutely right. That photo has been carefully picked to cause outrage. Just as the previous one, where he was a pleasant looking school kid was chosen to try to put a stop to riots. Before the trial we were meant to see a mentally ill Welsh child. Now the government have decided to go down the route of him being a evil psychopath with unknown terrorist intents, we get this one where he looks like the devil incarnate.

Absolutely.

Does it really matter. Could we give it more than a day before we start talking about theories around photographs. It's just so inhumane
Op had a reaction to him because he's one of the most evil people we've seen in our society. End of.

Weird that you don't...

Yes, I feel physically repulsed by it every time I see it....He's like an evil crusty the clown gone horribly wrong.
I have to avert my eyes and scroll rapidly because it makes me feel sick and furious in equal measure.

I have a visceral reaction, he doesn't look human. Hate seeing his picture everywhere.

Can’t agree. It’s his mugshot. It’s standard to issue a mugshot.

He looks like a surly teen with a nasty attitude, as was evidenced by his ridiculous behaviour in court - this was gender based violence, hatred of girls & women make no mistake.

If I was a kid hearing about these awful events then seeing that photo, I would be traumatised - there’s no need for that mugshot to do the rounds anymore for a myriad of reasons.

Do not even go there... ! 😡🤬

I did, but only because I knew what I was looking at. I feel the same about all of the child murders in the press. There's just something insane about looking at the face of a person who could do something like that to little helpless children.

he looks like Side Show Bob - a classic psychopath

I do understand your reaction @Newyearnewmewoooop

The image released is shocking. Everything about this awful case is truly shocking.

I was also struck by the contract between that image and the previous image of the schoolboy.

It is standard for mugshots only to be released post conviction. Do you really think the Daily Mail would have sat on that picture if they'd been allowed to show it?

he is repulsive. And the reality is that unlike many other evil psychopaths he looks like an evil freak.

As for the post up thread trying (and failing) to be clever, have reported it.

No, let’s not. We are better than that.

Me too

I'm certainly not feeling better than that.

Not sure about that. This child killer and rapist is 97 years old. He's been in prison for decades.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SidneyCooke

Sideshow Bob.

Well, hoping for torture and violence in prisons does none of us any favours, not least the staff that work there. I am trying to make sense of all this but I definitely know that more violence isn’t the answer.

I’m not better than that either. I hope he is in pain and fear for the rest of his miserable life and then I hope there is such a thing as hell.

I understand how you feel OP. It's a grotesque picture of a hideous individual. I made sure I didn't look at the TV directly or BBC news on my phone to avoid seeing it. It must have given kids nightmares. It reminds me of that awful person who stabbed to death those two young students Grace and Barnaby and the caretaker in Nottingham. Dead behind the eyes, fucking utterly terrifying psychotic 'things', they're not human.