to be disappointed that the inmate who attacked Ian Huntley didn't do a better job?

[Vallhala]

Unfortunately it appears that Huntley will survive.

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8579226.stm

AIBU in thinking that it's a pity that the harm caused to Huntley wasn't fatal?

I agree with Lockets.

Yes, get yourselves over to facebook or the Daily Mail online if you need to satisfy your braying mob tendencies.

I would shake his attacker by the hnds well.

alouiseg, that is rubbish, because i'm not sitting here wanting sombody to kill ian huntley i am a psychopath?

hand that should say

"Because if she didn't she'd be a psychopath with zero empathy for other parents." Oh bollocks.

Fwiw I have no sympathy for Huntley. But whoever perpitrated this action against him will have victims too. Where is your sympathy for them while the individual who most likely ruined their lives is being haled as a hero?

I'm going to bed now, I have had enough of this.

The guy who attacked Ian Huntley was a rapist, imprisoned for his crimes. If you/a family member had been attacked an raped by a man, would you happy with a justice system that then allowed that man to go on and attack others? as presumerably this rapist enjoys attacking people....

OP, it isn't any of your business. The only people who this is of concern to are the families and friends of the victims and people who work in the justice system.

I hate the way members of the public feel they have a right to get emotionally involved with devastating events that have nothing to do with them.

Why would you be shaking anybody by the hand? It is nothing to do with you. Stop being so grandiose.

Agree with Wannabee

Sources said last night that his attacker was most likely seeking notoriety when he targeted Huntley. The fact he was in the high-security wing of the prison suggests the attacker is himself guilty of an extremely serious crime.

Now would you shake his hand if this happened to be the murderer of James Bulger, or Peter Tobin or someone else likely to have commited another horrible crime?

And lol at YABU this isn't Facebook!

Ah, so this is the MN vigilante corner.

Would you like to indulge in a bit of public stoning? Or would you like him hung drawn and quartered?

By condoning that we just lower ourselves to the same level. How can we claim moral superiority when we decide what crimes are 'ok'?

nancy, as I said in my previous post, I know all too well the effect of the crimes on the families and community.

I won't stress with the insulting comments or take pains to defend my opinion because that makes it too easy to turn the issue into a slanging match and away from the question of whether Huntley's life is worth preserving.

I'm merely interested to see whether the majority opinion is that he should remain in jail, with all the financial and emotional (to the victims' families) implications which go with long-term imprisonment, or whether it's considered that society would be better off without him. It's clear where I stand on this, tbh who carried out the deed, be they inmate or Prime Minister, is irrelevent.

Come to that, does anyone think he should ever be released?

So you are not speaking on behalf of the victim's families? Are you a member of the family or a close personal friend?

While we're getting medieval, which of the following would you like to reintroduce?

1. Ducking stools
2. The rack
3. Testing whether women are witches by seeing whether they float or drown
4. Thumbscrews
5. Flaying

You can have all of them and more - there are plenty of them.

If you won't take pains to defend your position then there is no further engagement with you op.

How does your op suddenly become "does anyone think he should ever be released?".

The two questions are worlds apart. You are brushing what you said under the carpet.

Now if you had put

"I'm merely interested to see whether the majority opinion is that he should remain in jail, with all the financial and emotional (to the victims' families) implications which go with long-term imprisonment, or whether it's considered that society would be better off without him. It's clear where I stand on this, tbh who carried out the deed, be they inmate or Prime Minister, is irrelevent. Come to that, does anyone think he should ever be released?"

in the OP you would have had a different response. But you wrote

"Unfortunately it appears that Huntley will survive. AIBU in thinking that it's a pity that the harm caused to Huntley wasn't fatal?"

and put it in AIBU so you expected a slanging match!

Yes indeed

A scold's bridle for the OP.

valhalla

you are a wanker i am afraid

crossposts with bibbity

lol Su loving the bluntness!

It's a category A prison - making it a sure bet that whoever attacked him is every bit as worthless a piece of scum at Huntley - so why so many people want to rush to shake his hand is a bit of a mystery...the same hands that might have been around a pensioner's throat perhaps?

Oh and it's valhalla

o i am sick of the ghoulish freaks coming on thinking death of one person is the answer to societal problems

just fuck off back to tabloid land