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To think he should NEVER be released - HORRIFIC STORY WARNING ***warning reiterated by MNHQ - disturbing content***

496 replies

ShockedandOutraged · 04/12/2018 09:44

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6457161/Hes-bad-Ian-Brady.html#article-6457161

After committing a crime like this, it can never be guaranteed that this man is not a risk to society. What parameters do the Parole Board use to determine this? He has not been around to lose his temper/in a position to kill children while inside.

The reports details a network of 'friends' that this fiend has as support when he's out. Who on earth could be friends with something like this?

How can he even want to be released? If he had any remorse he'd have killed himself before now.

The poor parents of these children. Is there anyway they can fight against this?

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anothermothersusername · 04/12/2018 10:05

Wish I hadn’t read this Sad

ScrambledSmegs · 04/12/2018 10:05

Sorry I'm on my phone and it doesn't seem to be posting more than one paragraph at a time Confused. Hope I'm not confusing too many people.

Caprisunorange · 04/12/2018 10:06

“The parole board consider a hell of a lot more than the original crime, surely you realise that?

Like what? (Genuine question here, because I simply cannot believe that anyone would ever think this animal was fit release, and I am really not normally a lynch mob type).”

The parole board decision is based on the current threat the prisoner poses to the general public. For the John war boys and peter tomblins there are thousands of criminals they release who live amongst us without reoffending

SylviaAndSidney · 04/12/2018 10:06

Absolutely horrific, it’s times like this I wish we had the American prison sentencing.

UpstartCrow · 04/12/2018 10:06

No not Brady; Ian Huntley.

No he shouldn't be released. His crimes were planned and so severe, they prompted the UK to create the rules we now know as safeguarding.

TeaStory · 04/12/2018 10:06

I imagine nowadays a crime like that would get a whole-life tariff.

Toddlerteaplease · 04/12/2018 10:07

How on earth is he going to adapt to the modern world after being inside for 40+ years. He should never be released.

CryingMessFFS · 04/12/2018 10:10

He’s not dead. He’s been turned down for parole as recently as 2 years ago. Now all of a sudden he’s ‘less likely to reoffend’ and OK for release and has ‘learned self control’? Mental. Absolutely nuts. More like he’s failed parole hearing so many times he’s learned to say and do the right things to get released. IMO it’s not about if he would reoffend it’s the fact he did such a horrific crime in the first place that’s important. (About to be graphic here so please stop reading if it will upset you) Killing 3 children in 3 different ways then impaling them on a fence is not a loss of control or ‘snapping’ which is how it was framed at his trial. It’s sickening, premeditated and he is a dangerous creature.

kaitlinktm · 04/12/2018 10:10

Good God - I remember this case. It was truly horrific and I can't understand what other factors could persuade the Parole Board to release him. THREE children and killed so horribly. It wasn't a sudden fit of temper that made him lash out.

anothermothersusername · 04/12/2018 10:10

It’s the principle as well though. He doesn’t deserve a life of freedom after what he did. He robbed three babies of their right to life in the most horrific way imaginable. Why should he get to enjoy a life in the outside world when he killed those children. How can the people who are allowing him to go free actually sleep at night? The only thing he deserves is a bullet.

KittensAndChristmasCake · 04/12/2018 10:11

Oh it's ok people, no need to worry, because "he's learnt self-control" 😒

Jesus Christ, he should have been put down a long time ago. I can only hope that someone will 'deal' with this monster once he is released.

Raspberry10 · 04/12/2018 10:13

He looks like a pretty fit 67 year old, hardly doddering. So pretty much nothing to stop him doing it again. I can’t believe they are letting him out.

nottakingthisanymore · 04/12/2018 10:14

I will echo the thoughts of others- I do not care one jot how reformed or safe he now is. He needs to be in prison until he dies. My heart breaks for the mother and father of those poor, innocent children.

Avegemitesandwich · 04/12/2018 10:15

The parole board decision is based on the current threat the prisoner poses to the general public.

An adult human being who was ever capable of murdering 3 children including a baby in the way that he did, and then impaling them on spikes, is never not going to be a threat to the public.

MarilynSlumroe · 04/12/2018 10:15

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rosetulip · 04/12/2018 10:15

Who in their right mind trusts the parole board? The number of people who they’ve released who they shouldn’t have, who have then gone on to rape and murder more people is disgusting. There are some people who can never be rehabilitated, that the public need protecting from. That monster is one of them.

anothermothersusername · 04/12/2018 10:15

Agreed anyone can see it wasn’t just a loss of temper that made him do this. This man is clearly very dangerous and as a mum of two children myself I’m bloody furious that this dangerous animal is being released.

differentnameforthis · 04/12/2018 10:16

Don’t you trust the parole board to have all the relevant information to make this decision? Honestly? No.

ShockedandOutraged · 04/12/2018 10:16

I did put a warning anothermother.

The release of this person is a valid point of discussion and I am utterly flabbergasted that anyone thought it was warranted. He has not been around children. How can it be proven that he's not a risk to them when he is?

'Rehabilitation' can never work in something so fucked up. If he felt remorse he wouldn't have tried to use the Human Rights Act to get released before. He wouldn't want to live.

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nottakingthisanymore · 04/12/2018 10:17

Is there any way it can be stopped?

PixieCutRegret · 04/12/2018 10:18

I've changed my mind about vigilante justice, if this monster is released I hope he ends up on a spike somewhere.

Those poor children.

LetMeThinkAboutThat · 04/12/2018 10:18

Governess - David Mcgreavy is not dead. He is very well and alive.

VictoryOrValhalla · 04/12/2018 10:18

He looks like a pretty fit 67 year old, hardly doddering.

Well he’s had a pretty easy life hasn’t he? No stress, no strenuous work, no child rearing, no worrying about money or finding work. And now he’ll walk out of prison and get his state pension and a council flat. No wonder he’s looking so fresh.

Penny33 · 04/12/2018 10:19

Horrific. The poor mother.
He should never be released.

ToastedSandwichObsession · 04/12/2018 10:19

Reassuring that the psych said it was 'less likely' he'd reoffend Hmm I find that quite disturbing, so they're using the balance of probabilities then?

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