HOW WE TREAT CHILD KILLERS….
By ATWadmin On May 31st, 2008It’s disgusting but you need to read it.
Ian Huntley is receiving extraordinary preferential treatment in prison to ‘keep his spirits up’.
Who is Ian Huntley?
I ask, Why?
He is the killer of two children – Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman – and he has tried three times to kill himself. The authorities are keen to avoid another attempt.
Officers guarding him have been told by governor David Thompson to treat Huntley - and fellow inmates - as ‘extensions of their family’ and use their first names or address them as ‘Mr’. In addition, 33-year-old Huntley was given a series of privileges within weeks of arriving at Frankland Prison in County Durham - privileges which others would take months of good behaviour to earn. Prisoner JG5778 has been given a private room within the health-care wing of the maximum-security jail. Rather than be forced to wear uniform, he and other inmates are allowed their own choice of designer clothes.
Holly and Jessica were 10 years old when Huntley took their lives. Now he is being given this special treatment and prison officers must show respect towards this piece of filth. He SHOULD, in my view, face execution for his wicked crimes. Even alllowing him to kill himself is inadequate. But the efforts being made to spare his life contrast with his evil taking of the lives of these two innocent children and it disgusts me.
The Hone secretary should sack the governer of this prison. If she doesn’t have the powers to do so, parliament should give her the powers. Eevery governer of every prison in the land should be told in no uncertain terms not to mock justice in the way this governer has. Almost certainly none of these things will happen. It’s quite depressing.
Totally & utterly disgusting, he should have hung. It’s about par for the course these days and as Colm says quite depressing.
Mr. Huntley it is good to see you this morning. Hope you slept well sir. Kindly place this steel hat on your head. Looks good on you sir if I say so myself. Please have a seat in our electric chair.
I’ve been thinking about this one.
There is a good case for offering all prisoners who are sentenced to more than 20 years (real 20 years, not "20 years" with 50% remission guaranteed) the option of voluntary euthanasea. The take-up might be as high as 50%, freeing up prison places and saving the taxpayers’ money.
A self-electing death penalty and a win-win I’d say.
Jesus Peter. Are you channelling Jonathan Swift? It’s not hard to imagine somebody falsely convicted using that mechanism to top themselves.
Frank
Yes, A modest proposal
But I don’t see the problem. To me, suicide / euthanasea should be a right of all, subject to appropriate safeguards. A prisoner aged 40 who is sentenced to (say) 25 years should have the right to opt for death.
Peter,
There are appeals processes for a reason, surely. If an innocent person has been put away for 25 years then they may well opt to kill themselves.
Frank
Yes, tragic, but the point is it would be their choice. I would see a minimum "cooling off" period of one year in any case, and pschyciatric checks etc.
Peter,
"Yes, tragic, but the point is it would be their choice. I would see a minimum "cooling off" period of one year in any case, and pschyciatric checks etc."
‘Well Peter, it’s been a year now and we’ve decided you’re not nuts. Of course, we’ve been wrong before, as you keep saying haha! We’re going to leave a loaded revolver in your cell tonight. It would be however be less messy if you would climb into the airtight body bag provided and zip it up from the inside. Remember now, just because we put you away for something you didn’t do, you’ve lost your job and everything you own, your career is over, you’ll never see your grandchildren and your wife has moved in with the milkman, this is your choice. If you want to top yourself it’s nothing to do with us!’