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.🤔😫

What do you think should happen to his remains if you don't think the state should pay?

Can't exactly leave the body in a morg forever?

I dont recall the gov paying Holly and Jessica's parents £3k each for their funerals

Whatever happens it doesnt need to cost £3k

This question sounds like a Daily Fail headline or Jeremy Vine phone in 🙄

If you really are concerned about cost to taxpayers of heinous criminality there are many bigger fish to be fried.

Who knows who is mother is, how she lives or gets through her day.

Because thank goodness Daily Mail readers are not let loose on legal or political decisions, they can take their 2 shiny new brain cells and see if they can start a fire by rubbing them together

Why would you recall? Do you know the families?

I’m sure the families made claims via the CICA - so the cost of their funerals would have been reimbursed.

The CICA is a Government funded scheme so yes, the Government would have paid for Holly and Jessica’s funerals.

Not that that is in any way relevant.

It is standard for the taxpayer to cover the costs of funerals/disposing of remains of prisoners who die in custody.

It’s not some kind of special treatment.

How would you know?

Not that it's relevant to this case. The government has to dispose of his corpse. Who do you think should pay for it?

He was an adult and not a dependant of his mother, so she is under no obligation to pay.

The relatively small cost of cremating him compared to keeping him in prison is a reasonable alternative to leaving his stinking, rotting corpse lying around.

So whats a reasonable amount for the government to pay?

The crem and undertakers aren't exactly going to do it for nothing

Why do none of the grooming gang members get killed in prison?

I’m not a murderer, and as far as I’m aware, my mother would not be responsible for paying for my cremation if I died. The money would come from my estate. If there was not enough to cover it, the state would pay for a basic cremation.

The state is paying for IH’s funeral, presumably he has no estate to pay for it. Exactly the same situation, except he’s a murderer and I’m not. So your thread seems to be suggesting that his mother IS in some way responsible for his actions, because you think she should have to pay for his cremation. Nobody would think she was responsible for the costs if the state was covering the disposal of his body and he wasn’t a murderer.

In other words, she should have to cough up, even though no other parent would be forced to, because she gave birth to a killer. That’s completely unfair to her, she didn’t commit the crimes.

Exactly what I was going to write. What kind of a country are we if we can’t keep people safe when we incarcerate them, it’s shameful.

She’s not getting a free cremation, they’re cremating him. Just like the state would pay to cremate anyone, criminal or not, who died without an estate to pay for it

DWP have said that the cheapest cost of cremation is is £945.00 and that they could only pay up to £1000.00 for funeral costs, director’s fees, flowers, coffin etc therefore a non criminal leaving no estate would have a £1945 budget rather than £3k budget for child killer.

Arranging the disposal of the body without the resources to pay for security to prevent ghouls and the press from making a nuisance of themselves is too great a burden for ordinary people

Huntley died in prison, let the prison authorities sort it out

You think that is bad after the trial his mum will get money as her son was murdered it comes after conviction to the family .yes the man was heinous but he was still her child that bond is not easily broken

Children's funerals are usually up to age 16 free well in scotland they are not sure about rest of uk but I think they will

She's probably suffered in ways none of us can imagine.
Worrying about his victims families.
Worrying about him what else was going to happen to him.
Dealing with the finger pointing.

Let her enjoy a bit of compensation.

I did not know that even though I lived in Scotland for a while - makes sense though, but Scotland does tend to do common sense more than the rest of the UK please don't come at me about the £££ of it all.

I think its more the undertakers generally don't charge rather than anything the government does.

There is a government fund that covers the basic cost of the cremation or burial for children in England but certainly in the areas where I've worked the funeral directors also seem to go the extra mile for children's funerals and offer all their services free. One of my close friends tragically lost her daughter at a young age and their funeral director would not accept any payment at all. I've heard other families say the same.

I would imagine many of the costs will be incurred in keeping the proceedings secret from knuckle draggers who would turn it into a circus.

Right 😢.

The Head Master of the school didn't place importance on a DBS for a man who would be working with girls.

How was the headmaster supposed to get a DBS check 10 years before they were introduced?
The CRB system was only 6 months old at that time.