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Cannot Be Named Because Of Age ????

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fbg40 | 12:43 Tue 18th Oct 2016 | News
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Today, two 15 year old "children" were found guilty of murdering a mother and her daughter. The male admitted guilt from the start, the girl was found guilty at her trial. Why is it that they cannot be named ? Surely they give up all rights to anonymity when they they commit the crime ! As far as I'm concerned, it should be name and shame. The law in this case is an ass !!
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They may be murderous minors......but they are minors nevertheless.

It doesn't require a great deal of brain-power to work out who they are...
jackthehat

/// It doesn't require a great deal of brain-power to work out who they are... ///

Please give those less fortunate than you, the names and identity of these two 'minors'?
reminds me of the murderers in the true-life Heavenly Creatures. In real life they were given new identities: one became a writer of crime books (the other works with horses or something). A horrible crime, born out of a weird toxic friendship, but both have served their time and become useful members of society rather than being kept in jail at society's expense forever. I think that's a good outcome.
are you kidding, aog? It hardly seems a subject worth kidding about.
Correct me if I'm wrong but weren't the two who murdered James Bulger younger than these two but they were named at the time?
//Please give those less fortunate than you, the names and identity of these two 'minors'? ?//

JtH knows better than that. There are reporting restrictions imposed as a result of a Court Order. Anyone publishing their names anywhere (until such restrictions are lifted) will potentially be subject to contempt of court proceedings.

No, AOG.

If their names have been withheld it will be for good reason and I'm not about to contravene the law.

Quite, jno; *folie à deux* doesn't usually end so tragically, but in keeping the protagonists apart, it is to be hoped that there would be no repetition.
'Correct me if I'm wrong but weren't the two who murdered James Bulger younger than these two but they were named at the time? '

Yes, you're right. The level of public condemnation tends to sway this law.
that's what happened in the Heavenly Creaures case, jack; I read somewhere that they've never seen each other again since the verdict came back.

Brilliant film.
And the killers of James Bulger got the law changed about the age of criminal responsibility.
they cannot be named because in this country criminal scum are more important than the rest of us.
It was.....an early Kate Winslet,too.

Didn't it happen down in your neck of the woods? :o)
it's not becasue they're criminal scum, it's because they're minors. Is this so hard to understand?
Barmaid/jno

Just making a justifiable enquiry.

It was JTH's insinuation that one has a lesser brain power if one cannot work out who they are.
It IS possible the restrictions will be lifted at sentence. Much depends on the circumstances - there may well be siblings etc.
I visited there once shortly after the earthquake, jack - but a long time after the crime.
not surprising that jno, not a sincere bone in his body, is defending these lowlives. The age of criminal responsibility is 10, they qualify for prosecution they should dam well be named, end of.
AOG - most things become common knowledge with the use of the internet.
jno

/// it's not becasue they're criminal scum, it's because they're minors. Is this so hard to understand? ///

And can't there be 'criminal scum minors'?

Or even 'minor criminal scum' for that matter?

But then I wouldn't put these two under that last heading.
///It was JTH's insinuation that one has a lesser brain power if one cannot work out who they are///

That is in your own head, AOG.

I didn't claim to have superior brain-power, I just commented that it wouldn't take much of anyone else's.

Have you worked it out yet?

What difference does it actually make if we were to be told their names?

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