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Jury discharged at trial of men accused of murdering child abuser Ian Watkins
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 23 May 2026
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Can't His Majesty just knight them into the OBE? I feel like their service to King and Country is deserving of title of some kind.
Nobody cares about Watkins death but let's not forget that one of the guys who killed him is a rapist and the other already a murderer. Everyone involved is an evil piece of shit.
Ah, well in that case it's fine, but they still did the country a service.
I've been watching a Japanese series called Rainbow about seven guys who bonded in a juvenile detention centre in the 1950s and their lives after, and in a recent episode I watched, one suffers a loss and cries out, asking a higher power or fate if one mistake should condemn them for eternity. Rapist? Oh, absolutely, especially if the victim is a child. But someone who killed someone? Maybe they can be redeemed. I'm not sure. It would depend. And it's not my place to say. But I think if the government is not willing to condemn them to death, if the government decides they should live, then should they not have a chance at redemption? Otherwise, what is the point of them?