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.🤔😫

There seems to be some train of thought on here that the more fuss you are make about possibly everything to with Huntley such as making half brained suggestions of ditching him at sea or getting his mum to pay for the funeral. Or the more blood thirsty you are calling for the death penalty or violence in prison, that you are somehow more morally superior, care more about his victims or are more outraged at his crimes.

That's exactly it.

Like being too stupid to think sensibly about how to dispose of Huntley's corpse means they're more outraged about his crimes.

The company I work for include one family car automatically in the package so we would take the family.

It'll be the same people as well who are all "thinking of Holly and Jessica" while at the same time arguing to make something as simple as a cremation as long and as drawn out as possible by trying to force family members who have no legal responsibility to pay for his funeral.

It astounds me that people can't possibly think how that would be more distressing to the victims families.

I find the irony in this post off the scale. You've quite rightly pointed out Huntley committed crimes against women.

But I fail to see how you're on the side of women abused being men, if you're trying to hold another women (his mum) responsible for his crimes and that she should pay for his funeral. By suggesting she pays for his funeral, it suggests you think she bears some of the responsibility.

Huntley and Huntley alone was responsible for what he did. No one else. If his estate can't pay then the state does.

Until we hold men accountable for their own actions for violence against women, nothing will change.

It will just be seen as body disposal. No flowers. Nothing for remembrance. Absolutely nothing.

Relatives don’t usually pay. It comes out of the estate of the deceased. Very few don’t even leave enough for a basic cremation.

The prison system was responsible for allowing his murder. They screwed up. Doesn’t matter what he did. This was a death that should not have happened.

Yes as abhorrent as he was
The prison service has a duty of care towards all prisoners, wether the public like that or not
It would be utter carnage if that wasent the case.

Yes. And also, if an inmate can be murdered, so can a member of staff or even a visitor. Total screw up.

Yes it would be terrible I remember the strange ways riots that spread across the contrry when the prisoners took control of the prison it must have been terrifying for everyone.

Here we go. Another 50,000 people lacking basic comprehensive skills. People just latch on the world funeral and think that somehow the state is shelling out thousands on herses, memorial services and headstones and arguing he should be getting the most basic of services which is EXACTLY what he'll be getting. No word either of who will pay for it if not the state.

Everyone was sickened by his crimes and outraged. No one defends him. But I get sick of seeing people using other people's grief for their own attention. You see it on here with people "crying and hugging their children tightly" when they heard the news of his death. People posting endlessly on social media about it and pictures of Holly and Jessica in angel wings using the very same picture his parents had to ask the press to stop using.

From what I've read the family don't mention his name. The people of Soham don't mention his name. They carry themselves with a quiet dignity. All these petitions do is just add further trauma to the family by keeping his name in the public eye.

Oops link to the article! https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/ian-huntley-petition-funeral-ministry-justice-b1274588.html

Its crazy, what do the 50,000 people think is going to happen to the body?

Someone up thread who I couldn't be arsed to argue with suggested a funeral was much more than just a cremation.

Legal definition :funeral is defined as a ceremony, service, or act marking the final disposal of a deceased person's body, typically involving burial or cremation.

So i guess they are right it does include a service of some description. That could be a simple prayer.

I agree. I think I’d been on a night out when I saw this thread. I don’t get out much, so was maybe not fully thinking 😬