percy toboggan
05-Mar-08, 19:27
We seem to be hearing of these daily of late...
I confess this one had passed me by, but back in the summer a young woman stabbed thirty one times on a park bench in Richmond. London by a man on their first date! Her body was placed (I never like the alternative term) in woodland in Hertfordshire.
The man today convicted said he carried a knife because he was feeling 'suicidal' & his 'outlandish' defence was 'it fell out of my pocket and she immediately committed suicide with it'
Minutes later he's cctv'd filling up her car with petrol on her credit card - her lifeless body was crammed into the boot.
He has been sentenced to thirty years minimum but is this really enough? I wrote to a thread last night about reserving the rope for heinous killers - this was the kind I had in mind. The womans family are of course devastated.
Society is ill served by leniency in the face of such callous, cold blooded killers.
I confess this one had passed me by, but back in the summer a young woman stabbed thirty one times on a park bench in Richmond. London by a man on their first date! Her body was placed (I never like the alternative term) in woodland in Hertfordshire.
The man today convicted said he carried a knife because he was feeling 'suicidal' & his 'outlandish' defence was 'it fell out of my pocket and she immediately committed suicide with it'
Minutes later he's cctv'd filling up her car with petrol on her credit card - her lifeless body was crammed into the boot.
He has been sentenced to thirty years minimum but is this really enough? I wrote to a thread last night about reserving the rope for heinous killers - this was the kind I had in mind. The womans family are of course devastated.
Society is ill served by leniency in the face of such callous, cold blooded killers.