If the superb work by the Koestler Trust winner gets removed after it is revealed it is by a murderer, we need to ask - can no evildoer ever be rehabilitated?

And should we be encouraged to judge art by morality? Let alone by media and judicial decisions on people - which are frequently wrong.

If so, Oscar Wilde's work should be burned and mine should be banned.

Actually, slowly but surely I think this is happening and will get worse.

Humanity is becoming ruled by the simplistic, slogan, headline attitudes of the loudest and stupidest.

Which is why it will shortly be destroyed.

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicestershire/7992941.stm

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1168731...l-Festival-Hall.html

It's a beautiful piece of work. This depresses me. No doubt this story will have legs. So what will happen next? Pitchfork denied creating beautiful sculptures that people can appreciate and see?

How is that going to help the victims' families? Or will people be mortified after they are told the beautiful sculptures they've been admiring are the work of a convicted child killer?

How do the victim's families know what Pitchfork feels now?

For something immense and splendid to rise from the ashes of tragedy? The healing of hands and of minds-to move on from the past and to be allowed to express everything that is within the tortured soul of this individual.

To even pay some tribute to his victims through beauty and creation.

That should not be stubbed out. Otherwise there is nothing left.

I think the Koestler awards are to help prisoners to divert negative energy into positive action. They should be seen as a good thing and should be encouraged.

To refuse to acknowledge art because it was created by someone who once did something bad, is to tell that paerson that there is no point in changing for the better. The message "You will always be scum" is not going to help anyone. It's not about rewarding a criminal or his/her crime. It's about helping to build a better future.

""He's been rewarded now"..a meaningless statement by the mother who we all would have great sympathy for.

It's nonsensical, meaningless and untruthful. The man is in jail. One may as well say an ex-prisoner who works is being "rewarded".

And this is where tablod mentality aided by complant politicians,is so evil. Clearly people who have a relative murdered suffer terrible trauma but they need therapy which should be a government service. All that happens is they become part of the corrupt process..used by the media and authorities and then spat out when the story goes cold, only to be dredged up again in the future if there's a buck to be made out of it.
It's the Media doing damage to this poor woman.

Maybe they will take down the pics of those other pedos, Caravagio & Da Vinci ! Oh hold on, there wern't any Age Consent laws then so they weren't pedos.