What a horrible, horrible and sad story. That poor man and his family. It's awful.
However, Kimi, when you said: 'You only have to look at the photos of them in the papers to see what scum they are, you can tell before you read what they are like.' Err, no. If you catch anyone on a bad day they could look just as ropey. Especially if they've just been arrested.
This is not to detract from the horror of what they did. I was rather at the statement that the woman was shocked that her boyfriend hit poor Kevin - so why the hell did she call him into the supermarket in the first place?