Sarah Payne - we shouldn't need reminding

Sarah Payne was an eight year old girl who was abducted, sexually assaulted and murdered on 1st July 2000 by Roy Whiting. Whiting had a previous conviction for sexual assault on an eight year old girl but had been released early because a psychiatrist claimed that he was 'no longer a threat'.

Bullshit. You cannot 'cure' people of these kinds of urges.

Yesterday a judge reduced Whiting's sentence by ten years. Why?! Does anyone actually believe that this man will not reoffend again? I don't care that he will be about eighty when he gets out. It just means that little girls are more likely to trust him.

In a ludicrous statement, the judge then said "I invite everyone present in court, before we go about our daily business, to pause and for a moment to remember Sarah Payne who would now be 18 if she had not been murdered, and reflect the grave loss her death has caused to her family and others who loved her."

Dude - I never forgot.

I have never forgotten any of these children or what happened to them. They haunt me every day. Caroline Hogg, Baby P, Jamie Bulger... the list goes on. 

I still cry for them. It doesn't matter if I knew them personally or not. They were innocent babies cruelly and painfully ripped from this world by evil people who - for reasons unfathomable to me - still believe that they have rights. That they are entitled to be free one day. That they are the victims.

Well fuck them. And fuck you, too, Mr Justice Simon. Where is the 'Justice' in this? Why is it more important to protect the rights of convicted paedophiles than to protect the feelings of the victims' families?

Roy Whiting was originally sentenced to life. LIFE. And the law thinks that is too harsh?

Perhaps it is YOU, Mr Justice Simon, who needs reminding. Sarah Payne got death. There is no chance of appeal for that.