AIBU to question why taxpayers should fund Ian Huntley’s cremation?

[PassingStranger]

Can't Ian Huntleys mother who was at his bedside and in touch with him, pay for his cremation.
Why should the tax payer pay?
He's already cost the taxpayer loads.🤔😫

I read that if a person dies whilst in prison then the prison contributes 3k towards the funeral/ cremation so that should cover it, and to be honest it’s worth that to be rid of him once and for all - think of the future savings!

Yeah in the grand scheme of things, its not that much

But if her funds allow why can't she pay?

Her son was murdered in prison.

She shouldn't have to pay.

Do you not think she has suffered enough?

I had been wondering if his parents were still alive but I didn’t want to google. I guess it’s just following protocol that the state pays.

The family will also get compensation from the government, for the murder in prison.

Who knows what her financial situation is.
Anyway, it’s probably the cost of a few days of keeping him alive inside prison. Small price to pay. Any citizen without assets would be entitled to a paupers funeral. Something has to be done with his remains.

Surely you can have a bit of empathy with his mother. She isn't responsible for his crimes. Her life will have been ruined too. And right now she's dealing with the fact that her son was murdered.

The fact that you would even post this is just awful tbh.

Why should his mother? She wasn't responsible for his crime or for his death? If someone in general public can't pay their funeral the taxpayer pays. This is,I'm sorry to say, a nonsense thread.

All that happens is the ber minimum and his body is cremated and disposed off.

This, Huntley was evil, but his Mother to my knowledge is not. She needs to see her son given a cremation or burial.

Her son was in prison for murder x2, why shouldn’t she?

Surely most mothers who are still in touch with their sons would want to?

Because she did nothing wrong.

Huntley was a vile man who committed hideous crimes.

His mother did not commit those crimes, and her son has just been murdered because the state failed to keep him safe.

Do I begrudge a tiny bit of my tax going towards the cost of a very simple cremation? Of course I don't.

You need to give your head a wobble, OP.

Is it only female members of his family that posters want to be made to pay?

Yet another one!
It was costing the taxpayers £300,000 a year to keep him alive. He was murdered in prison and whether you like it or not, that’s how it is.

That’s just pure vindictiveness, OP.

Just goady, like the majority of Mumsnet! Can’t argue or reason with stupid

But he was her son. I’m saying that I’d want to pay for my son’s funeral. If she had the money, and wanted to, then she should be allowed to.

He was murdered in prison, yes - he was there because he did the same to two other families.

The state failed to protect him.

She may not be able to afford it.

We don't know what kind of relationship she had with him after his crimes. It may be complicated.

Yes, but that was his fault, not his mother's. She is not guilty of his crimes.

Then that’s ok. But the state should not take over the family’s right to do that.

What is the evidence that the state has taken over the family's right to pay?