Huntley and comeuppance

In this short thread you’ve mentioned numerous cases of miscarriage of justice so why not open your own thread on that theme rather than try and suggest Huntley is undeserving of rough justice from his fellow cons.

Most convicts won’t tolerate crimes against children and in this instance and that other paedophile Ian Watkins I will sleep easy regardless of anyone’s opinion.

I agree with the posters who dislike the lynch mob mentality.

TillyTrotter

If we can’t trust School Caretakers with our innocent children we are allowed to applaud their demise when it happens.

There is a long long list of people we can’t trust our children with - are you suggesting that we throw them all to the mob for punishment?

If we can’t trust School Caretakers with our innocent children we are allowed to applaud their demise when it happens.

Bukkie

Mrsgreenfingers - I am with you. And for those of you talking about miscarriage of justice I do understand your point but with Ian Huntley there is no doubt he killed those girls. And to add insult to injury he seemed to love his 15 minutes of fame appearing on the news pretending he was looking for them when all along he knew what he had done and where they were.

But the point is that it’s not up to prisoners to mete out punishments to other prisoners, whatever they’ve done.

Don’t know where biding came from - I tried to type using

Pantglas2

Understood.

So now to the whataboutery I mentioned and the reason you haven’t started your own thread on possible miscarriages of justice…

I was simply biding the Stone case as the most recent example of a convicted child killer that some would cheer being attacked and who may be innocent. He was just in my mind because the referral to the CCRB has only just happened. There’s nothing to start a thread about.

Mrsgreenfingers - I am with you. And for those of you talking about miscarriage of justice I do understand your point but with Ian Huntley there is no doubt he killed those girls. And to add insult to injury he seemed to love his 15 minutes of fame appearing on the news pretending he was looking for them when all along he knew what he had done and where they were.

Understood.

So now to the whataboutery I mentioned and the reason you haven’t started your own thread on possible miscarriages of justice…

mrsgreenfingers56

No sympathy for him at all, my thoughts went to the parents of Holly and Jessica again.

It’s not about sympathy for him, it’s about condoning mob rule. There is a difference.

Pantglas2

So explain your point … and your whataboutery…and your reasons for not starting your own thread on the Russell murders!

My point is that when people condone attacks on convicted prisoners (by other convicted prisoners) not only are they rejecting the rule of law and substituting the lynch mob but they are also blindly accepting that our CJS is perfect and everyone in prison is guilty. There have been heartbreaking miscarriages of justice cases involving the murders of children. If Sally Clarke, Angela Canning, Stefan Kisko had been seriously injured or killed whilst in prison, some posters would have cheered. But I suppose a bit of collateral damage in the pursuit of mob justice is a price worth paying.

No sympathy for him at all, my thoughts went to the parents of Holly and Jessica again.

It pains me to say it but on balance I agree with Monica.
When I first heard my reaction was, who cares good. However I thought about it and wanting people hurt, even vile murderers like Huntley, makes me no better than the knitters at the guillotine in the Frech revolution.

So explain your point … and your whataboutery…and your reasons for not starting your own thread on the Russell murders!

Pantglas2

We could review the Huntley case all day and it wouldn’t change the result. Enough of the wotaboutary…

Spectacularly misses the point .

We could review the Huntley case all day and it wouldn’t change the result. Enough of the wotaboutary…

The case of Michael Stone convicted of the murder of Lin and Megan Russell is being reviewed. There are other cases of the murders of children which turned out to be miscarriages of justice. Fortunately none of the wrongly convicted men had been murdered in prison.

He deserves everything he gets for what he did to those 2 little girls. I have no sympathy for him and I cheered when I heard he had been hurt.

If he’d picked on adults that would’ve been bad enough but when it’s children being murdered I wish them a long and interesting prison sentence.

Petra - should men convicted of rape be sodomised? Preferably with a broken bottle? Thieves have their hands cut off?

I’m with Monica and Grandma. We either have a CJS and the rule of law or the lynch mob. No doubt those of us who are appalled by this attack will now be called child killer lovers. I’m also appalled that we have regular attacks on inmates in our prisons and the failure of our prisons to keep inmates safe.

crazyH

I have no qualms about wishing evil upon people who harm children. Neither do I have qualms about wishing evil upon some, nearer to home (joke)

He deserves all the pain he inflicted on innocent people.

I agree with Monica too.

I agree with M0nica’s comments. The fact that he was a monstrous person doesn’t mean that we have to be.

I have no qualms about wishing evil upon people who harm children. Neither do I have qualms about wishing evil upon some, nearer to home (joke)