Serial killer?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.timesonlin...me/article7140653.ece

With all the recent news items attaching certain finds etc to a serial killer of prostitutes, and at the same time reporting that a certain person Stephen Griffiths, is accused of killing the prostitutes, is there any likelihood of this person receiving a fair trial?

[Panic Button]

Well he has virtually admitted guilt already!

[123everton]

Yes, we don't know all the details surrounding his arrest, I think he might have turned himself in to police.
Either way, I think he welcomes the notoriety attached with being a serial killer.

[rov1200]

Serial killings that occur within a short period of time seem to stop after the suspect has been caught. Not that its any proof but the minds of these killers would still allow them to carry on as they have a perverted sense of justice and believe they are doing good from removing the prostitutes from the streets.

In the minds of juries it probably speaks volumes.

[janbee]

He seems to enjoy the attention and notoriety.

[askyourgran]

Why shouldn't he get a fair trial AOG? He's already said he's the Crossbow Cannibal.
Does that sound like he is sane.

[123everton]

I don't think the issue is his sanity, rather it's his legacy.
Books etc.

[evedawn]

It's scary that he was doing his Phd in something related to "murder investigations of serial killers" (or something like that - I can't recall exactly!) I wonder if the thesis he was doing led his warped mind to take it further....? If he had've studied something competely different maybe that "window" in his very warped mind wouldn't have opened. NOT excusing him though!!!!

[Canary42]

In my opinion his giving his name as Crossbow Cannibal was an attempt to illustrate that in giving him this epithet the mucky media had already prejudiced his trial - a smart move by him, not an insane one.

[Gromit]

Very few actual evidence has been publish. Juries are instructed to judge someone on the evidence presented to them rather than the Newspaper headlines, which often throws up acquittals which the newspapers (and certain right whingers) do not like.

Absolutely no reason why a fair trial cannot proceed.