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Topic History of: Ian Brady
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In The Know |
honey!oh sugar sugar. wrote:
The death penalty was abolished shortly before Brady and Hindley were sentenced, so the fear of it was obviously no deterrent to them when the crimes were committed.
True (the exception proves the rule?) ... but it would have saved the millions that it cost to keep them in prison. |
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Jo |
Hungerford was 1987 and Dunblane 1996.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungerford_massacre
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunblane_school_massacre
There was a whole string of disasters in the 1980s, e.g. Hillsborough, Piper Alpha oil rig fire, Zeebrugge ferry disaster, Kings Cross fire, Heysel Stadium disaster. |
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honey!oh sugar sugar. |
In The Know (but not this time) wrote:
I tend to agree.
Back then these crimes were so few (because of hanging?) that they stuck in people's minds.
These days murder is so common you can hardly remember the last one
(a fact which is "proved" by the knowledge that I haven't the faintest idea who Hamilton is !!!!)
The death penalty was abolished shortly before Brady and Hindley were sentenced, so the fear of it was obviously no deterrent to them when the crimes were committed. |
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PaulB |
I was three years old, so he was near enough before my time.
Anything I have read or heard about him has been too coloured by time and the opinions of others for me to know what the full truth was. |
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honey!oh sugar sugar. |
Jo wrote:
If every crime was compared to the great scheme of things surely every crime could be shrugged off as not as bad as all that. Perhaps Brady/Hindley's crimes are considered particularly abhorrent because of the personal nature of it and clearly also the fact that they targeted children. They weren't dropping bombs from a great height but hunting, torturing and killing children for kicks.
I agree, Jo. All lives are equal, but this was a particularly shocking crime.
Mind you, Brady was insane, and Tony Blair is apparently sane... |
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