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To think if Ian Huntley gets compensation

217 replies

Marjee · 31/07/2010 22:50

he should give it to the government to pay towards the prison service?

This has made me so angry so apologies if its long and ranty but ffs
This evil man killed two innocent children and now according to the news he is likely to gain at least 20k! I'm sure I've read somewhere that if someone on benefits wins the lottery they are expected to pay back some money, why should this be any different? I wonder how much taxpayers money is going towards keeping him behind bars? What a shame his attacker didn't finish the job! Ugh disgusting vile evil man, whats he going to do with that money anyway?!
Sorry ladies I did warn you, anyway I feel better for having got that off my chest!

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ReallyFFS · 01/08/2010 01:42

No, I don't think shouldn't be protected from murderous other prisoners

But he shouldn't now live in a fucking bubble protected from everything because he is a murderer?

Which is what's going to happen

So pleased rights get taken away :d

thumbwitch · 01/08/2010 01:42

Jareth, I think it's the pineal gland you're talking about. have a look here

SM - yes I know it's total tosh, just couldn't remember what it was called.

IMoveTheStars · 01/08/2010 01:47

thumwitch - can you copy the URL? The redirectingat thing isn't working for me

ReallyFFS · 01/08/2010 01:47

Has anyone disagreed, or objected, or told me to shut up repeating myself? blackberryway?

I'm very sorry to hear you may have scars about this

Wishing you peace x

SlackSally · 01/08/2010 01:49

Well he DOES live in a bubble, he lives in prison. A prison is stuffed full of very dangerous people, so it's NOT the equivalent of, say, a person at liberty having constant protection.

And also, for obvious reasons, he's a target for those very dangerous people.

I just think we lose the moral highground completely if we condone allowing people to be physically punished either by the state or by turning a blind eye to vigilante 'justice'.

ReallyFFS · 01/08/2010 01:53

Well. Isn;t that the point Slack?

And again

I'm not advocating anyone being prone to vigilante justice

My original irk was that he can sue the state.

After he murdered

blackberryway · 01/08/2010 01:54

FFS - yes, practically everyone has disagreed and someone told you ages back that you sounded like a tabloid headline which you do. Maybe you're drunk or something but it's really grating on me.

I can't have peace from that crime or any of the other horrors we have all have to hear about, I just have to live with it somehow and try to find some, any, way of it seeming less awful. The main way is to feel, as I said before (now i'm repeating myself) that justice was done without having to sink down to a degraded level of behaviour in order to have revenge.

SlackSally · 01/08/2010 01:56

Isn't what the point?

You did rather imply that you condoned vigilante justice (with all the 'oh what a shame' and 'oh boo hoo' comments) but I accept that you don't if you say so.

ReallyFFS · 01/08/2010 01:59

Can you quote the tabloid headline Blackberryway? Please?

ReallyFFS · 01/08/2010 02:02

Er. No I didn't.

I implied I felt no sympathy

Big difference

thumbwitch · 01/08/2010 02:03

Jareth:
scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?q=criminal+brain+gland&hl=en&as_sdt=2001&as_sdtp=on
he re you go

SlackSally · 01/08/2010 02:08

I'm not sure the difference is that great to be honest.

What did you mean by 'isn't that the point'?

ChippingIn · 01/08/2010 02:31

Blackberryway You said to ReallyFFS 'practically everyone has disagreed' that's not true. You also accuse her of sounding drunk - that is incredibly rude. You may disgree with her comments, but there was no need for that.

It was Squirrel42 who said about ReallyFFS sounding like a tabloid headline - tbh you sound like you are posting under both names?!

As for this comment:

I can't have peace from that crime or any of the other horrors we have all have to hear about, I just have to live with it somehow and try to find some, any, way of it seeming less awful.

Unless you are a family member or very close friend to the family of either of those two girls, then that comment was a disgraceful way of trying to make a point.

SlackSally · 01/08/2010 02:35

The way I read it, ChippingIn, is that that poster had been through a similar situaton. I could be wrong. She could just find her self becoming very emotional when thinking about it. I don't see anything wrong with that myself.

Alouiseg · 01/08/2010 05:25

I agreed with FFS. I don't want tax money being spent on compensating that piece of shit.

porcamiseria · 01/08/2010 09:03

i cannot think of one single person that wants that man to get comp. he wont, please no

I do love the fact that despite being in solitary he still get fucked over!!!! ha ha ha

lady007pink · 01/08/2010 09:20

Alouisreg/ReallyFFS - get a grip. Ian Huntley is a human being - he just has a very strange way of showing it.....

AlaskaNebraska · 01/08/2010 09:22

i think if they have put him at risk of harm he can sue them
of COURSE he can
prison is NOT a lynch mob

agedknees · 01/08/2010 09:40

3 prison officers in the same prison where also stabbed. I wonder how much compensation they will get? After all, surely if a prison has a duty of care to prisoners, it also has a duty of care to employees??

ChippingIn · 01/08/2010 09:40

lady007pink/alaskanebraska - he may be 'human', but as far as I'm concerned, the day he killed two innocent ittle girls he forfeited all rights to pretty much everything. WHY should he have more rights than they do now??

IF I had more faith in our justice system I would be all for capital punishment - why pay to keep pieces of shit like this alive?

However, I don't trust our justice system to get it right 100% of the time, therefore we have to (at great expense) keep them alive.

4 walls for everyone elses safety, basic life sustaining food - that would be their lot if it was up to me.

He should be thanking his fucking lucky stars he is living & in the comfort he is in.

There is no way he should be able to claim any kind of compensation.

AlaskaNebraska - he succeeded in killing two innocent little girls; some guy tried to kill him and you think he's entitled to compensation. FFS

bigfishlittlefishcardboardbox · 01/08/2010 09:42

I'm going to sue the bloke he's sueing too....BECAUSE HE DIDN'T DO A PROPER JOB!

Vile little shit.

agedknees · 01/08/2010 09:42

Chipping - agree with you totally. All he should be entitled to is 4 bare walls, basic food, thats it.

ZZZenAgain · 01/08/2010 09:44

he won't get compensation

CURLYMAMMA · 01/08/2010 09:48

I am not clear why compensation is on offer if he is in prison for the rest of his life. I would like to see special legislation to remove the ability to sue for £compensation (for all inmates or at least lifers) but can see why a process is required to investigate possible lapses in the duty of care.

Hearing about him must be torturous for their parents. Wish he would just die.

Prisons are dangerous places. There will always be risk - not sure how much money we should spend on eliminating 100% of it, if that is even possible.

catinboots · 01/08/2010 09:49

Yes - IH should be kept safe in prison. This is part of living in a cicilised society.

But no, he should not be financially compensated.

Prisoners are not allowed to claim benefits whilst they are carrying out a sentence, so they shouldn't be able to claim government compensation either.

If such an incident does occur - the money should be used to investigate why the incident occured, and to prevent it from happening again to someone else.