A convicted paedophile, Russell Bishop, was today found guilty of the murder of two young girls back in 1986. He was cleared of their murder in 1987 but convicted at the Old Bailey as a result of a DNAS breakthrough. Bishop is the lowest of the low, but the media still turns the whole thing into a pantomime.
This has long been known as the Babes in the Wood case, which seems a strange way of describing two schoolgirls who were found strangled and sexually assaulted. In fact, I find the whole thing extremely offensive.
It was the same when the crazed ISIS murderer Mohammed Emwazi was slitting the throats of innocent people in Raqqa. “Ho, ho, ho,” cried the red tops. “We call him Jihadi John, you know, like John Lennon from the Beatles. You’ve got to laugh, haven’t you?” Well, no, actually.
I was about to write, “Why do we give almost affectionate nicknames to some of the most gruesome individuals who ever lived?” until I remembered that ‘we’ don’t. It’s not you or me on the top deck of the Clapham omnibus, or in the Kings Arms whilst supping a foaming pint of Boston’s Old Thumper. It’s the people who report on the news.
“The ISIS terrorist, known as Jihadi John,” they say, but they are the only people who refer to him that way. And I cannot imagine anyone, except a journalist at a low rent red top newspaper, talking about Babes in the Wood. Real people don’t talk like that.
Murdering perverts and scumbags describes these people much better.
