Courts decide what punishment is due to an offender, not other offenders. Makes me rage that murderers, violent offenders, drug dealers, gang members, burglars etc etc think they are superior in ANY way to sex abusers.
They are not.
Many victims of burglary never feel safe at home ever again, their terror is real, many are too afraid to leave home and too afraid to stay at home because of home invasion. They are in a living hell.
Murderers - of anybody, at any age, have no right to appoint themselves judge, jury and executioner to anybody else. Some family are bereaved forever at the loss of their loved ones - the murder victim has no chance of recovering, no therapy will bring them back to life.
Violent offenders - I know one young man who was beaten to a pulp by drunken thugs, so called gangsters. He did nothing, said nothing to them - he was coming back from the library while at university! He had to give up his studies, has a permanent impairment due to the severity of the kicking he got and has real difficulty having any social life that involves him being alone on the street - oh, and the UK has now lost a man who would have made a great NHS doctor.
Drug dealers - how many neighbourhoods are terrorised by these morons? How many deaths caused by them?
Sorry - there is no hierarchy of offenders. Sex offenders are vile, but the others are no better. If they have a prison sentence they are considered unfit and unsafe to be amongst the rest of the public.
The very idea that murderers, violent thugs, burglars, drug dealers, thugs etc put themselves above the law even in prison and dish out their idea of 'justice' is abhorrent - anything that makes them feel 'superior' to anybody else needs to invite our disgust - not our approval.
Oh, and by the way, our loved ones who work in the prison service and who try to keep these thugs and vile specimens off our streets day in day out, find their work even more difficult when vigilante justice is dished out like this. It disgusts them that baying mobs on line and in the media encourage it.
Being a victim of a sex offender doesn't give us the right to decide a whole alternative set of justice is dished out by other criminals.