Recent content by Rusty Braincells

Well, plenty of killers wait two years. It’s more common as far as I know, than a spree like Steve Wright for there to be a gap of months or years. Satisfaction is achieved and the urge abates for a while. I don’t know those cases well enough but from the little I know, the killers seem to have...

Yes, I’m always in a way shocked by how many murders are seeming one-offs, more people are capable of this type of crime than I might like to think sometimes. I try not to avoid attributing every murder in a particular area to e.g. Steve Wright or or Levi Bellfield or Christopher Halliwell but...

The police have a DNA sample for Janet’s murder I believe but haven’t said if they have one for Carolanne. They haven’t formally been linked by DNA. I am interested in that detail. But the distance between the killings, the fact it was only a couple of years, women of a similar age killed by...

I see where PB was coming from, but I think the killer was watching on the day / evening itself and saw for himself Roxanne leave. The Carolanne Jackson murder so close and so similar, is not a coincidence for me. The killer has some kind of rage, sexually-motivated in nature but not something...

I saw this case on one of the old Crimewatch episodes that people had (to my mind, very helpfully) uploaded to YouTube in recent years. I am glad to see this case is being publicised again and I really hope it’s finally solved. I am just an amateur sleuther. But it’s my personal opinion this...

Kara Alexander received a life sentence with a minimum term of 21 years today. Kara Alexander jailed for life for drowning sons in London I am looking out for the sentencing remarks to understand what to me is a fairly short minimum term for killing two children.

Although it’s welcome to see that minimum sentences for this type of murder are much higher than in the 1980s or 1990s or even 2000s, it is long past time for sentencing reform so that the sadistic; planned murders of one adult (as well as children or multiple adults) can more easily attract a...

Thank goodness, whole life. Multiple victims, very premeditated, sadistic elements IMO. I’m so glad the judge didn’t go for 40-50 years. The argument about serving a lot of years all sounds well and good, but I’m sure that’s what was thought at the time when Colin Pitchfork got his sentence...

I fear this is going to be a sentence in the region of 40-45 years minimum, and not whole life, so that the surviving daughter may need to deal with Clifford’s parole hearing many years from now if Clifford survives. I would LOVE to be wrong but judges have been more lenient than I would like...

Yes, there must be SOME consequences. “Oh it can’t be done, human rights this, can’t be compelled that.” We all pay for government lawyers via our taxes, figure it out.

Requiring a defendant to attend court for sentencing (or indeed his trial) falls into the “a bit difficult” bracket in terms of the law and practicalities, so it feels into the bucket where the authorities don’t want to deal with it and instead implement easier measures of lesser importance...

I personally disagree that there has been any genuine, significant remorse that would move the needle in terms of sentencing, but perhaps the court has heard something I haven’t. Whilst killing one’s own child in what should be the safety of her own home isn’t a statutory aggravating factor...

DBM

My exact thoughts when I saw that DM piece. She’s suddenly now capable of having feelings since she’s in the worst trouble imaginable for such a horrific crime.

I wonder how badly injured he is. Alongside the family annihilators who kill themselves too and those who never claimed any suicidal intent, multiple men who are successful in killing others but whose courage seems to fail them when it comes to the final step of taking their own life and they...