Baby Killer Murdered

[Gromit]

Horrible, horrible story.
33 years in prison and then murdered on his release. But I won’t shed a tear.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/david-gaut-murder-baby-wales-new-tredegar-gwent-suspects-arrested-latest-a8482441.html

[RichardSlade]

So the people did what the state couldn't. My only regret about this is the complete waste of taxpayers' money that kept him in prison for 33 years.

[anneasquith]

His sentence was " life in prison" unlucky for him life does not mean life in uk.

[jno]

I hope they catch the lynch mob that did it. I wonder if they were personally affected by the original case, or just vigilantes?

[Mamyalynne]

//Three men, aged 23, 47 and 51, have since been arrested on suspicion of murder and they remain in police custody.//


More expense if they go to trial and more misery for their families.

Never ending.

[kvalidir]

I cannot understand why he would move so close to his crime, people have long memories about things like that, understadanbly. Loathsome though the crime was you can't have lynch mobs, that's beginning of the end.

[Spungle]

This guy was, as has been pointed out, badly failed by the British Justice system. Sentencing is just a joke when life doesn't mean life. Taxpayers would gladly pay to keep the likes of him behind bars for life. Perhaps those making sentencing laws will reflect on the grim reality that if they don't sentence properly, others will take the law into their own hands.

[Cloverjo]

I won't shed a tear either. I don't know what to say apart from what we're all feeling about a grown man killing a defenceless baby.

[AuntLydia]

He should have been hung 33 years ago.

[LadyCG]

Looks like the suspect in the murder of Samantha Eastwood has had a pasting too.

As for this baby killer, I have no sympathy. However, more lives have now been ruined by vigilante action and it needs to be dealt with severely. It would be a dangerous precedent to set if it weren't.

[naomi24]

I have no problem with this man having departed this world, but in dispatching him, his killers have created a nightmare not only for themselves but for their loved ones too. Not a choice I’d make.

[douglas9401]

Some tidying up by the local taffia? Family members of the baby who have simmered and festered all these years? Local knobs out to back up their pub chat?

Doesn't really matter in the end does it? He's dead.

[LadyCG]

It's certainly no loss to the world, Douglas, but devasting to the family/ies of the vigilantes.

"Taffia" - Ha ha :-)

[Gromit]

I thought there were rules about releasees not returning to the place of the crime to spare the r3latives of the victim.
Common sense would say don’t go back there.

[bainbrig]

Auntlydia rants “He should have been hung 33 years ago”.

Like Tim Evans? Oh, he was.

Like James Hanratty? Oh, so was he.

Innocent, but dead.

Justice!

[naomi24]

bainbrig, this man wasn't innocent.

[andy-hughes]

It's difficult not to see a lack of sympathy for this man, but vigilantism is never acceptable.

[ummmm]

Wasn't James Hanratty found to be guilty?

[Rockrose]

The person in question served the time given for the crime, he was moved into council accommodation and moved several times so it seems he wasn't given a choice where to live.
It would appear (I read it) that his post was intercepted and thats how they discovered who he was.
Vigilantisim is not the way forward and hopefully they too will feel the full force of the law.

[jno]

I think DNA implicated Hanratty after all. On the other hand, DNA seems to have cleared Dr Crippen.

[naomi24]

//DNA seems to have cleared Dr Crippen. //

I'd never heard that before but having done a quick check it seems it's disputed. Interesting though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawley_Harvey_Crippen