UK's most recent serial killer

[JayMcGee]

lol! true enuff...... I live halfway between Manchester & Liverpool.... my possessions are fair game for all & sundry!

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Phil

have you been out on a Saturday night recently? a few drinks, a bite to eat, a taxi home ... cheaper than paying a prostitute but no less worthy of a judgemental statement.
there are many, many reasons for women (and men) to turn to prostitution. there's a story behind every woman's decision (not always a choice) to enter into this "profession". the least society could do is everything possible to protect them.

Originally Posted by DanaC

What relevance is that?

We should have gone with the 'safe-zone' idea. It was shelved to avoid adverse publicity. Girls who work that trade are no less deserving of consideration and protection than anybody else. If a mine caves in and kills a bunch of miners, we do not wag our collective finger and say, yes but what other kind of men would steal off underground and put themselves in danger.

Whoa, back the fuck up. What the hell are you two babbling about?
Jay suggested the killer might be targeting prostitutes because he's a moral vigilante. I countered with, that's the most likely group to go off to a secluded place with a stranger. That makes them the easiest target
Who's being judgmental, not me.

[DanaC]

Okay, sorry, misunderstood.

Originally Posted by JayMcGee

mmmm.... One the one hand, it does cast our serial killers in a better light, in that without the ready access to fire-arms, they have to work harder to co-erce/cajole the victims into the life-threatening situation. And then of course there's the method of despatch itself... without fire-arms, one has to be much more inventive. Strike one more for the Brits (and Aussies). I guess that the readily and widespread availablity of guns in the US has, to a large extent, removed the elegance and originality from homicide as it is practised in the USA.

He was a cop, he could have gotten an fire-arm if he chose to. Most serial killers in the US don't use them. I can only think of one that used them to get their victims to cooperate. They don't like them... not "personal" enough.
Trying to make this a gun discussion won't work.
They don't use them. If anything it would show that an armed populace would be better served to protect themselves.
However, I just don't see why it is really relevant to this discussion. The laws are the way they are and the poor people are dead and we need to focus on that.
More, openly, legalized prostitution with safer access for them and safer places to practice their jobs would help with this immensely.
We must remove our puritanical ideas from sex, it is a sickness that is killing people like this, with abuse and STDs every day all over the world.

[Shawnee123]

They've arrested a second suspect:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16277149/