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Jury discharged at trial of men accused of murdering child abuser Ian Watkins

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Veserr@sh.itjust.works⁩ to ⁨unitedkingdom@feddit.uk⁩

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/may/22/jury-discharged-ian-watkins-murder-trial-lostprophets-singer

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  • cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Can’t His Majesty just knight them into the OBE? I feel like their service to King and Country is deserving of title of some kind.

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    • ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Nobody cares about Watkins death but let’s not forget that one of the guys who killed him is a rapist and the other already a murderer. Everyone involved is an evil piece of shit.

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      • cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Ah, well in that case it’s fine, but they still did the country a service.

        I’ve been watching a Japanese series called Rainbow about seven guys who bonded in a juvenile detention centre in the 1950s and their lives after, and in a recent episode I watched, one suffers a loss and cries out, asking a higher power or fate if one mistake should condemn them for eternity. Rapist? Oh, absolutely, especially if the victim is a child. But someone who killed someone? Maybe they can be redeemed. I’m not sure. It would depend. And it’s not my place to say. But I think if the government is not willing to condemn them to death, if the government decides they should live, then should they not have a chance at redemption? Otherwise, what is the point of them?

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