Where is the justice these days?

Very interesting read on google Natalie ..... the 'before' and 'now' photos certainly look very similar for sure !

Certainly sounds like it was hushed up in the papers etc for a reason too.

 

Interesting, but I think when rumours circulate a person's identity, it can lead to trouble. There are those that would be inclined to dish out their own justice. In cases where the peretrator is guilty of assualt, abuse, rape etc I can understand that. However there is always the risk of mistaken identity, and then some innocent person gets hell.

When I was a kid, a local known weirdo attacked me. I managed to fend him off before I suffered any misfortune (swift elbow to the ribs to loosen his headlock, then the hardest front kick I could muster aimed at his nether region), then I ran like I've never ran before or since. It occurred to me that I was lucky, and some other kid might not have been, so I vowed from that day to get him when I was big enough to match him. Years later when I was 21 I was on a bus and an absolute spit of him got on. I was 99.9% convinced it was him. He was getting off at a stop that was no good to me, but I thought I'd get off there too and 'have a word'. Then I thought about that tiny element of doubt that I had about his identity. If that tiny doubt proved right then I would have been reduced to a lowlife scum who picked on a random stranger for no reason, the very kind of person I hate. So I stayed on the bus and continued my way home.

 

Too true Clueless. My brother in law is actually a prison guard in the prison this Arthurs was first held in a few years back. ALL prisoners files are accessible to the prison officers, but this guy's was not. He's apparently back in prison now, but on the system, it doesn't say where he is, whereas, everybody else has stated where they are located. In my humble opinion though, the crime that this Arthurs committed on young girls, is no better than what the Bulger murdering sob's did - they're both deserving of maximum penalties, so wouldn't bother about a mistaken identity This Arthurs character is hardly innocent.

 

I understand that, but somebody who happens to look quite a lot like him might be. Some people need to be sure of a person's identity before they decide what to do, but some don't. The trouble with mob mentality is that if there is a mistake, then the wrong person gets hurt. There was a case a while ago where a paediatrician in Portsmouth I think it was, got attacked by a mob, because some half wit didn't know the difference between paediatrician and paedophile, and the rest of the mob just went along with it.

Here's a news article about it:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...mob-attacks-home-of-paediatrician-710864.html

 

You're right of course Clueless on the mistaken identity. Same can be said for making sure you have the whole story before making a personal judgement. Don't know that it would've been done as a sick kick, or more an act of ignorance (I can't get the link to open properly!) - as ignorance plays a big part in alot of the problems these days - ignorance and the inability/refusal to to become more knowledable of the world around us.