Grrrrrrr ... 
a young man is dead. Dead. end of. Dead. 
His children are now without a daddy. His children who have done nothing wrong and were unfortunate enough to have been born into a troubled family. His children who probably already were not having the easiest start to life. These children have lost their father. For goodness sake where is the compassion for these kids.
Vincent's family are grieving their daddy, their brother, their SON. I cannot imagine how on Earth it feels to loose a son. No matter what he did, who he was, how terrible his deeds. He was someone's son. If he was my son I would feel empty to the bottom of my heart. I may also feel angry with everyone and everything, even if I had no right to.
I know they r not grieving like many people would. I know the pensioner was in the right, not the wrong. I know that poor pensioner will be distressed for a long time to come and we should all feel for him. I know he didn't deserve for a criminal to come into his home and attack him and frighten him.
BUT - that pensioner killed this family's son / brother / daddy. Albeit fairly and in self defence. But nonetheless, in the eyes of the family - he took away their son and dad. Of course they feel angry. Yes it's not the pensioners fault - but people don't think straight when someone has died.
Why so so so much hate. Vincent is dead. If you want to hate someone, hate him. His kids though - they need to see a bit less hate. They need some compassion.
Where is the humanity.
Stop hating.
Vincent was once a kid. There are thousands like him suffering. We feel sorry for these children when they are small. But when abused kids from troubled homes grow up to commit the crimes we knew they would when they were small and did nothing about it - we punish. We shout hate. We want death.
Stopping crime is everyone's responsibility.
If baby P had lived he probably would have been a Vincent.
If you r the ones calling this family scum. Why are you also not looking to stop future kids turning out this way? Are you volunteern to help troubled kids? Working with young offenders? Getting involved in early interventions in schools? Reaching out to try and change things??????
Or are you just shouting and hating and doing nothing
sorry for the rant. I am just so fed up with the lack of humanity and the hate exhibited on this thread.