To think Tina Malone deserves no sympathy

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She's in trouble legally for allegedly sharing photos of one of James Bulgar's killers. She is getting lots of support online but I think people are letting their hatred of the crime cloud their judgement. Surely exploiting a tragedy to get attention is not something that should be applauded! This wasn't done with any intention of "helping" James's family, was it?

*preying on

I really do not understand why these piles of vomit (and that's an insult to a pile of vomit) have been or rather are being pondered to and protected
like 2 princes. I don't doubt loads of people have shared the images. What are they going to do lock up 1000s of people. I thought the prisons were full. I bet they'll find room when anyone upsets these "little darlings"

One of them surely should have lost the right to the high level of protection they get......and where’s the rights of the general public to know who might be amonst them. The scumbags rights take precedence as is often the case.

They were granted Lifelong anonymity under the Human Rights Act.

She deserves everything she gets. Pretty much as they deserved what they got.

Once released they also deserve protection. Once they've served their time they deserve to be allowed to live as normal a life as possible. That's the system we have in place for good reason. I can't believe the number of people saying they don't deserve protection. When did we start pandering to baying mobs?

One reason is that as soon as their faces and public identities become known, anyone who has the misfortune to look similar to them will be at risk of being lynched. If you think this is all about their rights you're very naïve.

If the person in the photo gets beaten to death by vigilantes she will be partly responsible for a murder herself.

And if it's not a photo of one of the killers...

Or if an innocent person is mistaken for the person in the photo...

I think the law is very sensible and she was wrong to break it.

I can never understand why these boys are treated with more vitriol that adult killers.

They were 10 year old boys ffs. They've served their time. No, it wasn't my child they killed but there's a reason why we have a justice system and why victims and mobs are not the ones who decide the level of punishment.

I'd be interested to know what people would prefer - give them no anonymity and let them be lynched? If so, I hope these aren't the same people who then go on to criticise the Saudis or other countries for their policies.

No idea who Tina Malone is, but if she broke the law then she should accept the consequences.

@findingmyfeet12 I agree, I was always very uncomfortable with the way they were portrayed in the media at the time.

If the person in the photo gets beaten to death by vigilantes she will be partly responsible for a murder herself

No they would have been murdered for the heinous crime they committed. However I accept that the law is right, and their is a risk if the wrong person is identified. I do not accept it's her job, or any one else's to protect these men.

They got treated very lightly, and how SHOULD they have been portrayed, one of them keeps reoffending too.

TBF I think there's a reasonable argument that Jon Venables needs to be in prison for life to protect the public given that he subsequently reoffended, but that's not going to be achieved by sharing images of men who may or may not be him and Robert Venables on twitter. I mean, it's not like Tina Malone is in any position to know if they're accurate anyway.

The number of innocent men that have been attacked, if I rember rightly one person even got killed because some thug got his identity mixed up with the photo that was released.

She may not have done it her self but releasing them she knew it would wind some up and intise them to attack them.

bluntness
But there is no saying the person in the photo was one of them, that is why it was so dangerous to post the photo. Are you really that stupid that you don't understand that

Bluntness. And what happens if they kill the wrong person?

They should not have been portrayed at all. In the same way that other minors' identities are not revealed.

Words such as "devil" "evil" etc are also highly immature and irresponsibly incite hatred. I'm shocked at the number of people who are willing to live in a society where summary justice is handed out in the streets by mobs. Absolutely it is the responsibility of society to protect everyone regardless of whether some are deemed worthy or not. The only other way is anarchy.

There are plenty of killers on the streets who have served their time. Their portrayal is the reason why these two need protection and others, who were adults when they killed, don't.

"They've served their time".

No they haven't.

8 years in a unit with the best of everything and not one day in adult prison. Is not what I call serving their time, and its no use trying to convince me otherwise.

I can't stand the woman,but I think we should all be retweeting their pictures. I'm sorry,but I don't want that scum living anywhere near me.

Are the people who advocate allowing them to be lynched also supporters of the death penalty?

Revealing their identity amounts to the same.

Just put of curiosity?

Given their level of understanding and maturity at the time 8 years was deemed sufficient.

Regardless of whether you are convinced.

The judicial system has decided they’ve served their time which is good enough for me.

I'm shocked at the number of people who are willing to live in a society where summary justice is handed out in the streets by mobs.

Most of them probably wouldn't like it half as much as they reckon they would. Because these things never stop at the actually guilty. Of all the people on MN and various other places online coming out with stuff like this, at least one of them is going to have a husband or brother who looks like the images or has a similar name to them and is living in the approximate area.

Are you really that stupid that you don't understand that

No, and neither am I randomly offensive, go me. However I do need to ask, since we are talking about stupid, which part of I accept the law is right due to the risk of mistaken identity confused you?

YANBU.