Calling icod : thanks for your interesting insight to my post. in answer to your formidable questions:
(no previous at all) to have previous you must have a recorded crime against you, many start small and build up never being reported for years, testing the water proved by many cases taken to court years later when the child has reach adulthood. there are two types of crime that of recorded crime and that of unrecorded crime victms of crime and estimated crime. check the national statistic data of crime.
(crimes of passion) Murders do think their crimes are committed in passion / heat of the moment i.e. domestics, your right. however he committed two act abuse/rape then murder. in the court you must have two elements to murder the physical and the mental (actus reus)i sure he had both. check. you go right a head and give them another excuss.would you take that as a reson if it was your kid.
(prison wings) the decatgorisation of prisons to one for murder and one for all other the old school way, would i'm sure make the normal teenager think twice about steeling that car if he know he was not going to be locked up with other just like he.or peadophiles know he may have to share a cell with some who may kill him in his sleep.this may stop prison chat of what offences they comitted, apply the feeling of fear they do..would you admit to anything in this enviroment.
(wrong covictions) are the judical systems problems not the prison services subject matter please.
(clear cut cases) this is clearly that arrested at the sence. you have to prove beyond all resonable dought i'm sure the court has that.
Bring it on, icod years of experience working with the cases like this, A levels in related subject sociology, law, criminology. not the sun newspaper. which only report the must readable cases, what about the hundreds of cases that never make it to the front page