Jon Venables back in prison

[kjh]

I liked the Daily Mash story about this: BALLS CONDEMNS EXPERT FOR KNOWING STUFF

[Frankie Crisp]

I think you C&P'd the wrong link there chief.

[kendal mint cake]

Wow, not seen that one before. Top marks.

[Loki]

THat Norway story saddens me because it's never nice to realise that the country that you live in is actually barbaric in its treatment of children, when compared with a more "civilized" country.

 

I suspect that the difference in reactions between the two mothers speaks volumes over the general level of hysteria and blame culture in modern Britain.

[ozzfan]

Guardian cartoon I think sums up the Venables situation rather well:

 

[JNLister]

I like how people are going on about how disgraceful it is that Venables and Thompson would have gone free if they'd done the murder in Norway, but nobody's mentioned the fact that it they'd been just six months younger the exact same thing would have happened to them here.

 

On a similar note, when people go on about how we are getting softer on child criminals, how many people realise that until 1999, the prosecution had to specifically prove that anyone aged 10-14 understood what they were doing, but since then it's automatically assumed that they are responsible.

Edited March 19, 2010 by JNLister

[kjh]

I think you C&P'd the wrong link there chief.

 

Yeah, you're right. Here's the link I should have pasted: http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society...f-201003162562/

[Carbomb]

The Mash is greatness. Here's one of my favourites:

 

Men still trying to find Gaga attractive.

[InvertedSmiley]

Private Eye's 'Hackwatch' column is a great read this week, as usual.

 

They only publish half the article on their website, so this is all I can show you:

 

WHAT did Jon Venables do to get himself returned to prison? It was more a case of what didn

Edited March 19, 2010 by InvertedSmiley

[JNLister]

David Mitchell brings the rationality:

 

The Venables/Thompson/Bulger horrors aren't important events

[Quentin]

Venables & Thompson take a two year old child, strike him in the head with a metal pipe, pour blue paint into his eye, insert a battery into his anus and leave his dead body to look like it was hit by a train. But according to some posters here that episode of events is nothing compared to Denise Fergus appearing on "This Morning".

 

Nit picking maybe but if you check a source that isn't a tabloid, that part isn't actually true.

[Happ Hazzard]

On a related note, Ian Huntley has just had his throat slashed.

[King Pitcos]

Bit of an odd question, but are there ever child murders that the tabloids don't go nuts about? I assume there aren't, since it's the one topic that they know they can whip every self-righteous moron into a frenzy with. But surely tons more kids go missing than just the ones that get the big push in the press. What's the deciding factor in which ones become a story?

[Quentin]

Some form of Missing White Woman Syndrome situation I guess...

[MerlinsMagique]

Venables & Thompson take a two year old child, strike him in the head with a metal pipe, pour blue paint into his eye, insert a battery into his anus and leave his dead body to look like it was hit by a train. But according to some posters here that episode of events is nothing compared to Denise Fergus appearing on "This Morning".

 

Nit picking maybe but if you check a source that isn't a tabloid, that part isn't actually true.

 

Correct. The batteries were only found near his body. There was no indication of what had been done with them.

 

Bit of an odd question, but are there ever child murders that the tabloids don't go nuts about? I assume there aren't, since it's the one topic that they know they can whip every self-righteous moron into a frenzy with. But surely tons more kids go missing than just the ones that get the big push in the press. What's the deciding factor in which ones become a story?

 

Child abduction and murder happens all the time all over the place, no doubt. It seems to be the stories that have that 'little extra something' to add to the shock value that are sensationalised by the media. The Bulger case had the slant of the murderers being children themselves. The Huntley case was sensationalised because he was a school caretaker despite having a history of alledged rape and sexual assault of underaged girls. The Myra Hindley case had the 'Bonnie and Clyde' story to it, as well as the victims being buried on the moors, thus the case being labelled 'The Moors Murders'. Tabloids will exploit any angle to sell an extra few copies of their garbage.

Edited March 21, 2010 by MerlinsMagique