Well, couldn't find another topic on it, thought I may as well revive this one.
The jury came back yesterday after about 17 hours deliberation, we three verdicts all at a majority of 11-1.
Ian Huntley was found guilty of both counts of murder and sentenced to two life sentences. Maxine Carr was found not guilty of assisting in the murders, but guilty for perverting the course of justice, namely saying that she was at the house with Huntley on the night the girls were murdered, when she wasn't. She was sentenced to three and a half years, she's served 16 months so far.
Now the big news at the moment is all the previous crimes that weren't allowed to be referred to during the case as they would influence the jury. Since the verdict came back, numerous rapes and assaults of young girls and women involving Ian Huntley have come to light. He was accused in many rape cases but never convicted. There's alot of talk right now of massive error on the part of the police in not making the link earlier, and also that of the school he worked at as a caretaker for
granting him the job.
From
The Guardian Online
Right, that's everything I can think of right now. I watched an interview on the news yesterday with an ex girlfriend of his who said that after three months together she told him she thought she was pregnant, whereupon he punched her in the stomach hard enough to send her across the room onto the bed. Luckily she was intelligent enough to leave him after that, but she said that one of the reasons she thought he liked young girls (and she said she was very aware that he was - apparently he went off with her 15 year old friend after dating her) was that he could tell them what to do and they'd be afraid of him enough to do it.
The press here is insane right now, there was nothing on the news yesterday except this, and if you take a look at
http://www.mirror.co.uk/ you can see what I mean - there's only one link on the front page that isn't related to the Soham case.
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