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[Sir Tigger KC]

I think that the fires of hell have been burning especially fiercely for that bastard!

[Bigron]

Baza, you just beat me to it! I was going to say, forget the ethics of the situation, for that evil c*nt Sodium Pentothal should have been administered years ago.

Ron.

[Lizzie Zoom]

He was one evil bastard, and now he has gone we can celebrate.

Trouble is there is always yet another evil bastard to replace him and those like him

[Terbs]

He was one evil bastard, and now he has gone we can celebrate.

Trouble is there is always yet another evil bastard to replace him and those like him

Exactly that, Lizzie.
However....despite all the hate that has been portrayed on here, and other media outlets.......what chance of there being a return to capital punishment  vote/result !!!!!!!!!! I would say nil !!!!

[Viral_Jim]

It's not something they would ever put to the public vote, that's for certain. I couldn't even imagine it going to a vote in parliament. Also, given that even today we are still seeing people exhonorated and released years after a successful conviction, its difficult to support.

[Terbs]

I agree with you, but those being exonerated !!! were convicted before today's science. Those convicted today are more subject to our increasing technology. Also the term...'Beyond a shadow of doubt'...comes into play.....example, Lee Rigby's killers, caught in the act......

[Viral_Jim]

..example, Lee Rigby's killers, caught in the act......

True. But even in a similar example to the one you give (being caught in the act, on camera, with witnesseswtc etc), it may be necessary to make a judgement as to whether the perpetrators of a crime are subject to some kind of mental illness or a temporary disorder of the mind.

I know the yanks are comfortable with executing the mentally disturbed. I like to believe we have higher standards.

In practice, thos would mean any defence worth their salt would argue a temporary disorder of the mind. It'd be a brave beak indeed that sentenced to death someone who claimed that.

[Doctor Gollum]

Should they have swung? Probably. But they didn't.

Fifty years on, it isn't worth debating.

Certainly there has been far too much coverage of one individual.

It's done now and should be left well alone... A cursory note in the Times and call it done rather than all this nonsense.

[Viral_Jim]

Agreed DG.

By all accounts what he wanted was to eek out as much pain from the Families and celebrity from the media to the bitterest of ends.

It is sad but it will forever be true that more people remember his name than that if Keith Bennet, or any org the other victims.

[baggers]

Apparently the sick F__ck want his ashes thrown over the Moors

[Bigron]

I don't know how large the Moors are, but is it feasible to employ Time Team tactics and survey likely locations? If they can find Roman burials, surely.....?

Ron.

[Doctor Gollum]

Apparently the sick F__ck want his ashes thrown over the Moors

At best insensitive, but equally, not something that needed to ever be public knowledge. Ultimately such an act means more to those left behind than the general population, and then only if you believe in it.

Don't recall any uproar about where any other mass murderers are deposited. 

[STEMO]

It's being said that there would be nothing illegal about scattering his ashes on Saddleworth Moor, but I'd like to see them try. As far as I know, he has no family to insist his wishes are carried out so I doubt the situation will arise.

[henryd]

It's being said that there would be nothing illegal about scattering his ashes on Saddleworth Moor, but I'd like to see them try. As far as I know, he has no family to insist his wishes are carried out so I doubt the situation will arise.

Flushing them down the toilet would seem appropiate

[Kevin Wood]

Apparently the sick F__ck want his ashes thrown over the Moors

At best insensitive, but equally, not something that needed to ever be public knowledge. Ultimately such an act means more to those left behind than the general population, and then only if you believe in it.

Don't recall any uproar about where any other mass murderers are deposited. 

Exactly.

I don't feel sad that we didn't execute this man. I feel that he got the best justice we could have served - to lose his freedom and to spend a long life and lingering death hopefully in contemplation over how he chose to lead his life.

What I do feel sad about, is that he has constantly been given the oxygen of publicity, both when he was "inside", goading the authorities and the family of Keith Bennett over the location of his remains, and now in death. It is this which has made it so difficult for the families of his victims to move on, I'm sure.

He should have been locked up and forgotten about with no access to or interest from the outside world.