I am a little torn with this, whilst it was obviously an abhorrent crime, and the attempted cover up even more so, I can’t help feeling a slight bit of pity for him, and maybe more so for his parents.
He obviously had real issues, and I am struggling to understand how he attempted to tidy up afterwards without some direction somewhere, given his supposed limited capabilities.
For the actual murder, the thing that keeps going round in my head is what happens in Of Mice and Men with the Lennie character, if anyone knows the book. He is a man of limited capabilities, is attracted to nice things, doesn’t realise his own strength, and panics when the women starts to get uneasy.
If he was definitively linked to the earlier assaults then that would change my thoughts completely, and that would then lead down the road of a build up, and premeditation.
Even with the trial over I still can’t reconcile things properly in my head, maybe I am still just clouded by the horrible image of a women going out for a stroll in broad daylight, being wheeled back to a graveyard in a bin, and buried covered in plastic sheeting in a shallow grave, and then trying to attach reason to it.
It’s just awful.
