The one thing missing from all the coverage of the prison attack on the Soham murderer is sympathy.
"He will be living in a nightmare." This was how a former prison governor described the kind of life that Ian Huntley will be leading in jail on Sky News this afternoon. The serious attack on the Soham murderer - his throat was slashed by a fellow inmate at Frankland Jail on Sunday - has attracted plenty of coverage, none of it (as far as I can see) tinged by the tiniest bit of sympathy for him.
Nice work on the Wheatley intervention, John, and the probable motive - and the sprightly rearguard action in the NS. There's a fairly crazy irony in a situation where a group of people who make others shake with righteous indignation then shake with their own righteous indignation at the heinous crimes of others. There's also a lack of intellectual rigour. If the law doesn't rule...
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