A petition has been launched calling for Ian Brady to be buried at Ashworth Hospital - the “one place he tried desperately to get out of”.
The campaign, launched online, aims for Brady’s remains to be kept permanently at the Maghull site so that he is kept locked up “even in death”.WTAF..?
His death has sparked controversy about what should happen to his body. Sefton coroner Christopher Sumner sought assurances Brady’s ashes would not be scattered on Saddleworth Moor - the resting place of four of his and partner Myra Hindley’s victims - before releasing the body on Thursday.What on earth does it matter? He's dead. Isn't this supposed to be the age of reason?
Councils across the UK have publicly refused to cremate his body.Well, why not? There's a precedent. But do we have to follow the strange superstitious customs of the excitable Johnny Foreigners? Aren't we better than that?
But then, they already demolish perfectly good housing for ridiculous reasons, after all...
With uncertainty remaining about what will happen, Brad Savidge has launched a campaign pushing his own proposal.
Writing on campaign website Change.org, Mr Savidge wrote: “Nobody wants Ian Brady’s remains anywhere. Quite rightly so. If we could simply make the monster disappear we would.”He's dead. You don't get more 'disappeared' than that.
Surely, someone, somewhere, has room in their septic tank?
ReplyDeletePenseivat
Normally I grizzle about brits who live, mentally, in 1945. Pleased to see those who still inhabit 1845 getting a look in (and I bet most of them are Brexiteurs to boot).
ReplyDeleteThe burial at sea option seems best because, whether we like it or not, locations become unfairly associated with tragic events. I don't really want to perpetuate this, but if you list Dunblane, Hungerford, Soham and even random places like Lockerbie, the crimes associated with then should not be the first thing that comes to mind. Maybe the media could help by not labelling such events by the location they occured at, which they do only for multiple murders that occur in one place. They could, for example, name them after the oldest or youngest victim instead.
ReplyDeleteRight about the time we started importing the ignorant and uneducated.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure there are several factors here but I suspect that a couple of powerful elements are the rise of social media and the spineless uselessness of the political class.
ReplyDeleteThere have always been idiots but in the past they mainly confined themselves to grumbling to those around them or writing a green ink letter to the odd politician who could safely ignore them.
Now, idiot can interact with idiot as easily online as sensible people can but usually make a far greater amount of noise between them.
Politicians and the media, most of whom have long given up on tackling real problems because they would take some effort and make then unpopular, jump at the chance of an easy score.
"Surely, someone, somewhere, has room in their septic tank?"
ReplyDeletePig farms leave no trace... ;)
"...and I bet most of them are Brexiteurs to boot..."
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"...if you list Dunblane, Hungerford, Soham and even random places like Lockerbie, the crimes associated with then should not be the first thing that comes to mind."
But they will be. That's inevitable.
"...I suspect that a couple of powerful elements are the rise of social media and the spineless uselessness of the political class."
I suspect you're right!