Ian Huntley has died

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That's according to BBC news. Can't say I'm sorry.

A double murderer being murdered by a (now) quadruple murderer doesn't really seem like justice for the girls' families to me. It worries me when vigilante behaviour is lauded.

I can't really explain as clearly as I'd like, and I'm sure I don't have the correct psychological terminology, but...a murderous psychopath being killed by another violent psychopath doesn't seem like proper justice at all.

And yet a lot of recent cases in the media the name of the killer has been withheld. The fact is the media do withhold the names of criminals and are prevented from reporting on it already.

Stop trying to make it out like this doesn't already happen.

If you don't want to get burned, don't jump into the fire.

Ian Brady was able to taunt Keith Bennett's mother for years whilst in prison, playing all sorts of games in regards to the location of his body. People who support killers like him being protected from being attacked are allowing for the their continued behaviour towards the families of the victims to continue.

I don’t need to ‘stop’ anything I will say what I say

names always come out, you know this.

@Charlize43 I may have misremembered, but I think the Soham murders case was the catalyst for the DBS clearance requirement for anyone working or volunteering regularly with children and vulnerable adults. He would never be employed in a school nowadays.

Two wrongs normally don't make a right, but in this case I think the very end result is satisfactory. Now the evil cunt can burn in Hell for eternity.

Excellent post, @WildMintPanda

Good. Glad he has had 20 plus years to experience prison life, where he has been repeatedly attacked, but glad his life had ended now as he would have been out in less than 20 years

You are being extremely rude to IThinkPink, who clearly knows what she is talking about.

He would never have been released but at least the families of the victims won’t have to hear his name in the media again after this dies down. I hope that is some kind of closure for them. They have always behaved with such class and dignity

Pity

With social media it’s impossible that the name wouldn’t become public knowledge.

Plus in a prison setting where the number of potential perpetrators is already limited.

It’s not the same as a murder where the killer is yet to be charged, tried and convicted and where naming them could prejudice the judicial process.

In Russell’s case he’s already serving a whole life term, he is in fact only one in a handful of prisoners in the UK to be doing so which tells us everything about him we need to know. So any potential trial is irrelevant really, he’s not going to be further compromised by yet another murder charge.

It really is shocking. I read an article in The Spectator recently about female prison warders having sex with inmates. The writer, who has been inside himself, said that the main reason was understaffing and that if prisons were properly staffed, it would simply not be possible for warders to enter cells without being seen by another warder. Grim.

I hope the press don't ask Jessica and Holly's families for comment.

I think the people revelling in this violent murder are sullying the memory of Holly and Jessica and disrespecting their families.

They have suffered enough without people on a so-called parenting forum engaging in bloodthirsty revelry in their murdered daughters' names.

Shame on you.

Oh, ffs, do one... What are you, the Thought Police?

Agree. Yes he's no loss to society but it shouldn't be inmates doling out attacks like that. It makes a mockery of the prison service.
Thoughts with the girls families

In this case-happy to join the Thought Police, yes.

I don’t generally condone the death penalty. But here you have one murdering sex offender male violently killing another murdering sex offender male. How many lives did they destroy between them? They should both have been put down rather than housed albeit miserably for 24 years at the expense of the taxpayer. All these perverted deranged violent males locked up together. Surprised it wasn’t sooner and I don’t think the murderer had vigilante justice for Holly and Jessica in mind, just notoriety for himself. Sick. Something needs to change.

Did he rape them? I've never heard that reported.

Nice bit of woke.

I don't think this is a good way to handle things. If it was my daughter I would hate to think of them being raped as well. Don't make it worse than it already is.

Urgh who cares. let them all kill each other. Far worthier things to be spending money on than that bunch of scumbags.

Lurid speculation is disgusting and I have reported.