Soham Monster attacked in Jail.

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I hate saying his name.
The vile creature who killed Holly and Jessica in 2002. Has been seriously assaulted in prison.

Hmmm......it is a bit Old Testament in here.

You don't have to be narcissistic to think that vigilante violence makes prisons unsafe places and isn't something to applaud, agreed.

My dd was a similar age to those girls when it happened. It was at that point it dawned on me what I would be prepared to do in order to save her from someone like that.

I think differently. We are all only human. We can only think hypothetically - and hope we're never in a position to discover otherwise - but I think it's entirely possible that if this man had murdered my child I'd want to see him suffer in the worst ways possible. The mealy-mouthed rhetoric on the theme of 'forgiveness' is not one I've ever had a great deal of time for.

And - had the decision as to what happened to the killer been left in my hands - when enough time had passed that I was able to process other things as well as the scale of that loss, I'd end up with it on my conscience. Bereaved parents have been handed more than enough terrible cards as it is, without subjecting them to this. There is a good reason why bereaved families are not part of the judicial process: justice has to be impartial.

Would a bereaved parent be blamed for wishing harm on him? Of course not. Should this be encouraged, or should it be the way in which we heckle for our justice/punitive systems to be run?

Again, absolutely not.

I also worry about security in the prisons. It's bad news if violent people are going for other violent people. It feels like prisoners run the place which is scary. Obviously the man is evil

a desire for revenge isn’t how Jessica Wells’ father feels anyway. He said

"Time doesn't heal, someone got that wrong," he said. "It anaesthetises. Grief does not diminish, but you can manage the intensity and learn to live with it.

"Murder has the capacity to destroy more lives than the one taken. I recognised that from the start, so I tried to take control, to make plans and to exert positive thought.

"I clung to my family, my community, my work, sometimes to God and sometimes to a late-night tumbler of whisky. I chose to believe in the future, a future I could craft from the life we once had. Really, all I wanted was for us to be the ones who'd made it out the other side."

Fortunately there are many that believe in the rule of law and think mob violence is a bad thing.

You are celebrating violence. it's not a good look.

Today the victim is someone who committed heinous crimes.

Tomorrow it could be someone wrongly accused or wrongly convicted who is attacked.

Jails should be safe. We argue that for women in jails, why would we not argue that for everyone?

@NotnowMildrid you are making huge assumptions here. You think a childless person can't feel horror at these crimes? You think all parents of girls automatically agree with your view. I have a just turned 12 girl here beside me and the idea of what happened makes me feel sick to the core but I'm still with @plantseeds here. Violence begets violence and I don't agree with inmate vigilantes handing out moral punishments (if that's what this was).

Nice to hear he got his face smashed in though. I can't imagine a day goes by for them where he isn't on their minds so may as well be because someone battered him half to death.

You are right there.

There's a hierarchy in prison and, no matter what an inmate has done, they like to have someone or some people, on whom they can look down. They punish them accordingly if opportunity presents.

It's not just hard cases like Huntley who daily live in fear of fellow inmates, there are some inadequate people, and youngsters, inside for relatively petty crimes, who can be bullied, coerced into things and attacked. It's not surprising that suicides amongst young prisoners happen fairly often.

Narcissistic in the sense that you are unable to understand the pain and intense emotions involved.

Describing posters as being akin to Huntley if they don’t agree with your opinion regarding the attack, is pretty disgusting, disrespectful and low.

Not narcissistic though..

Correct though. It’s completely illogical to deplore violence in one context and celebrate it in another.

What - 'Thou Shalt Not Kill'?

Or is it 'An eye for an eye' (Exodus & others) you mean? Otherwise known as:
Let the punishment fit the crime.

It’s an ill wind

Do you follow all of the OT laws then, or just select the ones you find fit your narrative?

So pleased, pity they didnt hit him harder !!

People applaud when someone like this is assaulted in prison. And then the same people are outraged that NHS services have to be deployed to treat the injured prisoner. Medical professionals in this country have to treat everybody- the NHS isn’t run on the basis of whether you’re a nice person or a brutal killer. You can’t have it both ways. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Absolutely this.

I remember in the IW thread people were hailing the perpetrator a hero. In reality it was someone who was owed money from him. No ‘moral Justice’

I would guess this is a similar situation or IH would have been killed in prison years ago.

Do you know how often people ask this? Never! So thank you for even considering it.

Agree. Bet he didn't have to wait long for an ambulance unlike others. Bet it was immediately.
Just hope nobody's operation got cancelled or nobody else suffered because the ambulance has gone to him and not them.

It's about time they did think, fuckin idiots as well as being incredibly evil and nasty , they are as thick as two short planks.

Huntley threw the girls tops in his own bin I mean come on also came forward to say he'd seen them that evening.😱

I hope he’s in unbearable pain

Load of balloney.

He would already be segregated for his one safety. They do as much as they can and escort him as much as they can. Which is actually more than he deserves.

However there will be times when he has to mix with others. Occasionally there will be opportunities, staff can't be everywhere and don't have eyes in the back of their heads.

In case you didn't know there is a shortage of prison staff also.
Are you surprised, that numbers have been cut and people don't want to work alongside some of the scummiest people in society?

Maybe as your so concerned you could apply for a job though not.