@Floisme
I'm not saying you don't talk about what happened or what he did - in fact you could argue we don't talk about it nearly enough. It's about whose story you tell, whose viewpoint do you tell it from. I think that all things considered The Yorkshire Post got it about right and The Graun bungled it badly.
Completely agree. It's whether the women whose lives he stole are seen as furnishings in the melodrama of his life, or human beings with feelings and relationships and hopes and dreams, all of which he stole from them.
I'd love to read an article that talked in detail about who they were, where they came from, what their lives consisted of, and who they left behind (as long as those survivors wanted to be included). That's the real story, when someone kills like this. What was taken by their actions, not the anatomical mechanics of how they harmed. Instead, their histories, personalities and lives have faded away into a void, while every detail of his gets obsessively recorded and picked over.
There's also research that shows focusing on killers in this way actually encourages others. It makes them darkly glamorous. The one time the media were very good was in refusing to play ball with that hideous man who wanted to be known as a crossbow murderer (won't use his preferred moniker). He absolutely wanted to be famous as a serial killer, and it was denied him. It should be all of them.