[Angus]

Originally Posted by InOne

They might never get out, and I think they will both end up in Broadmoor for the rest of their lives. Especially Barker, a sexual sadist, no way will they let him back into the public.

Yet he's sane enough to make 8 separate attempts to have his rape trial thrown out by the Old Bailey - the victim was 2 years old at the time. At no time have his lawyers pleaded insanity as a defence, so we have to assume he is simply an evil, scum of the earth bastard who does not deserve to be kept at tax payers' expense for the next 10, 20, whatever years.

The mother who stood by and did nothing to save her defenceless son from months of unspeakable torture got just 3 years, and she has accepted no responsibility for his death, instead whinging about how going to prison has messed up HER life. The least that should be done is to sterilise this inhuman bitch so she can never breed again. As far as I'm concerned she is as guilty as the step father who killed him, in some ways more so because she betrayed her child in the most callous way imaginable.