Justice is done.

[rc]

Legs just say if the story is true, then knee won't be around to do any more harm(string).

Out of interest, which newspaper was this in, administrator?

[Woolly]

Ive read a small piece on it in todays Metro, which says there is currently no evidence to link the crime with the victims criminal past.

Which makes this even scarier.

[Matt Timson]

So was he murdered and chopped up or chopped up and left to die?

Gruesome either way.

It also sounds  premeditated (whatever the reasons- revenge, mistaken identity, fun) and if you can plan to cut somebody's legs off I think you'd have to be *very* closely connected to the person being avenged and extremely cross.  Either that, or just a bit mental and looking for an excuse to chop somebody up.

That said, I could see myself killing somebody in a spur of the moment fit of rage if they'd hurt my loved ones- but chopping their legs off?  It's not exactly spur of the moment, is it?

[Dunk!]

What if the guy was killed for no other reason than being in the wrong place at the wrong time?

The person killing him could have had no idea of his past and had targeted him for completely different - probably random - reasons. His past is being brought up to find a reason for the murder.

So we have an individual or individuals who have no qualms about killing a man and chopping him up? I've worked a farmstead and slaughtering a sheep was traumatic enough, let alone chopping it up.

Takes a true psychopath to do that, and strangely they aren't "hero" material.

[Dunk!]

Opps.

By "that" I mean kill and chop up a man; not chop up a sheep.

That's not a psychopath that's a butcher...

or is that an industrial mincing machine? I get the two mixed up.

[Mr C]

There is never ever an excuse for killing someone, for me, it is the ultimate crime, taking away someones existence, taking away that person, someones loved one or friend, there is never any excuse, even if he was a paedophile, it's not an excuse. Even if he was a pervert or monster, that is not justice in my book. Justice is locking someone up, letting their own sins eat them up.

[Pyroxian]

He didn't deserve that - having the living shit beaten out of him, yes but not being mutilated and killed.

    Steve

[therev]

To be honiest I know bugger all about the background to what happened so saying "he got what was coming to him" is abit off the mark as I can't make a judgement as I don't know all the details.

Still your right about Dredd..."No one takes the law into their own hands!".

[Proudhuff]

This is all a bit too close to Huff Towers. i walk one of my sons to school down the street next to the one he was found in and my other Juve attends the school he taught at.

A couple o problems: one, there is the possiblity of a man (most likey) walking around our neibourhood who has cut someone into six bit and stuff some into a bin and and shallow graved the rest. ( but the police say they are holding someone for it)

The other is a rumour circulating that I wouldn't be writing on the net. Lets just say the Juve at school's been well warned, but what if the chopper guy starts working on the strength of rumours?

Strange days indeed

Huff

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[Jared Katooie]

There's good in everyone just as there's bad in everyone.

Nobody has the right to take someone else's life.

[Richmond Clements]

I've known two people accused of this.

One was a Minister, who happened to be gay, and some idiots confused this with being a peadophile.
So they beat him with sticks until he was dead.

The other guy killed himself.

So excuse me if I don't consider what happened to be justice.

[Priv8eye]

I follow the bulk of the boarders here who feel that two wrongs don't make a right.

Yes I do have kids and hate to think how I would feel if such a thing happened to them, but the action taken in this case does not right that wrong.

And it still could mean that there is someone else just as twisted out there.

[Queen Firey-Bou]

shit huffy, thats scary crap for your kids & community.

i wish the law would sit down & get its act together on a lot of issues, so communities werent faced with these fears & sick murdering loon jobs didnt have 'moral outrage' to pin their sickness onto.

i spend 20 years wanting to maim nastily someone for good reason, faced them 3 summers ago when they turned up at an event, looked this guy straight in eye & thought "you ain't even worth swearing at or a slap maggot-man, you know what you done & you are burninggggg ", he spent the next 3 hours sat in a corner looking miserable as hell, i carried on enjoying myself at event, & i felt justice had been done, time & guilt can do more that couldve been achieved if i'd set the boys onto him.

re paedies in community, it sucks, we got one, think the mums who've terrified their kids to not go out & play have done more damage that he's ever had a chance to, but wish he'd f*ck off to someone elses back yard. bizarrely enough one day i saw him  & said to my car-passenger, i'd love it if he had a house fire & i could get in & find some real evidence on him... a week later he did, ( no arson, just un-swept chimney overspill) but his 'friend' was watching me like a hawk while i barked commands & had the living room furniture turned out & carpet etc... yes there was photos of kids everywhere.. but maybe he has lots of neicies & newphews? i coulnt get upstairs or nowt for real evidence. need to summonse i bigger fire next time...

non chopping vigilante Bou.

[Trout]

A good friend of mine e-mailed me today.

He lives round the corner from where this dismembered body was found, and he's bloody terrified, as are all his neighbours.

This isn't justice.

It's simply a new, horrific crime.

- Trout

[rc]

So you got yourself a gen-yoo-ine one-hunnerd-per-cent paedophile within your community then, Bou?

Sifting through his burnt possessions to root out "evidence"...?

As other posts have pointed out, mistaken identities and wrong conclusions happen in this fragile department all the time - I take it you have this as firm, compulsory advice from the local authorities?