Idi aMin, Saddo Hussy, Pol pot, Adolf, Mussy, Mugabe…..needn’t go on really?

The actual example was the husband of a battered wife.Hardly in the same league.

Well Merlin,I’m delighted to know that any child’s life is more important and precious than mine.I don’t see how you or anyone else can put a quantitave value on life.ALL life,however short or long,is precious.Naturally as adults we protect children and I’d willingly die for my daughter,but I wouldn’t presume to value anyone’s life as being “worth” more than anyone else’s.

So now some people ” deserve to be murdered “?

Killing someone is killing someone.It’s completely irrelevant whether they’re defenceless or not .Of course the murder of a child is the most emotionally involving.But you’re saying it deserves the severest of punishments,it seems to me,precisely BECAUSE it’s emotionally involving.Why would you treat the killer of ,say a two year old,any differently from,say,the killer of a 19 stone female Ronnie Barker look-alike ?

I don’t follow your thinking,old shape.On one hand you say premeditated murder once carried a mandatory death sentence,but you don’t want that.On the other hand you want a death sentence for child killers .That means you’re quantifying the taking of a child’s life as somehow being worse than that of an adult.When would you draw the line?Would someone murdering an 18 year old be allowed to live?Would one day older make a difference ?Abhorrent as child murder is to anyone,I don’t see that it should be made a special case.All life,even that of the scum you’re so fond of talking about,should be equally respected .

Ian Brady has always known that there was no possibility of release and that he would die in prison.Personally I’d make every effort to keep him alive as long as possible rather than afford him the luxury of a quick death.No doubt,in view of his expressed wish to commit suicide,he would class efforts intended to keep him alive as torture .

My daughter’s back from Download as red as a tomato and raving about Def Leppard ( front row !! ) And I just heard Gerry Rafferty’s Baker Street on the radio and it’s the best track in the history of the world and I haven’t heard it for ages .

Bloody hell symon,would you REALLY want two moaning old bats staying with you ? Thanks,I’ll pm you .