Why do we have imbeciles on here trying to score cheap political points on such a serious subject? Moronic individuals.
There is no shade of government in this country which has cracked down on wrongdoers for donkeys' years despite all their laughable sound bites like "Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime", and such other drivel we've been spoonfed over the decades. They lost the respect of the majority the day and hour they binned capital punishment some 50 years ago. Since then it's been no better than open season for every scumbag to commit heinous crimes with impunity.
Politicians are NOT there to do their electorate's bidding, otherwise they'd alienate the wishie washie element if they did. And that might just cost them their seat at the next GE, perish the thought! So we have to lump it whilst the gutless MPs appease the invertebrates in our society for fear of getting the heave ho.
Inevitably, therefore, horrific crimes like this will continue to be perpetrated regardless of which mob is in power, for the only difference between them is that they sit on opposite side of Parliament to one another. They neither have the will or the inclination to put strong enough legislation on the statute books which may help prevent vermin as in the above article from flourishing within our midst.
In the meantime we limp along from one outrage to the next.