ian huntley is suing the prison authoroties for £20.000 after the recent attack on him for failing in their ''duty of care'' towards him...he is GUARANTEED £10,000....the world has gone mad......
It's a crazy world we live in where a convicted child killer can be assaulted by a fellow low-life scum-bag and then sue the state for failing to protect his human rights (the very same human rights he voluntarily chose to violate when he committed double murder).
But looking on the bright side, what is he going to spend his money on? If he wins, it's a hollow victory as he won't be able to reap the rewards of his payout – ever. It not as though he'll ever come out of prison; no Home Secretary will ever release him because to do so would be political suicide. He's the new Brady.
However, the fact that he can bring a case like this to court from behind bars is bordering on lunacy.
isnt this what he wanted? attention, surely if you choose to ignore him he will be forgotten. plus what was the source of this news? tabloid press, or ?
by the look of things, old wounds have returned. is it huntley mania now?
Much as we may not like the idea, we do have to protect prisoners from each other.
Otherwise you would have anarchy in prison, with gang warfare, and prisoners murdering or torturing each other (and dont say "good" as not every prisoner is like Huntley).
If the prison guards were not doing their job, and a prisoner is attacked, then the prisoner does deserve some compentation.
Unfortunately in today's society it does seem that the 'human rights' of the criminal take much more precedence than that of the victim/s. I think that you forfeit all claims to rights when you are convicted of a crime and sent to prison.
Personally I would have fried that b ast ard thus solving the problem of him being assaulted on the inside!
Given what he is inside for VHG would you have protected him from this attack?
I certainly wouldn't have, infact I would have held him down while they did it. Perhaps then he might have bled to death and saved the taxpayer from having to feed and clothe him for the next however many years that he disgraces Britain with his presence!
agree with VHG - although he committed a heinous crime, we have a responsibility to criminals - otherwise we become a country who have human rights that we despise.
If (and only if) the prison warders did fail in their due care, then they should rightly be castigated. Prison is not (and should never be in my opinion) about retribution.
oneyedvic lets put in perspective then shall we?...the parents of huntleys 2 victims only recieved £11,000 compensation....would you call that fair??what about the victims and their families human rights?? they were taken away in huntleys house were they not...when he murdered them....