Yeah I agree with the above really. I am a strong advocater of forgiveness. They were only kids. Yes what they did was utterly utterly disgusting but as children, were they really aware of what they were doing?
Also if their identities were known they would both have been killed by viliganties by now, making someone else a murderer, so surely the police had no choice but to protect them if it was to stop another crime. That is their job after all.
However I do not for one minute agree with them being given new lives and houses and everything. They should have had to work for what they got like anyone else.
And from another point of view I would like to know if my boyfriend/best mate or anything used to be venables or thompson because it would alter my view of them, e.g. would you let them look after your kids? So I feel sorry for those close to them who don't know who/what they really are.
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