by Trapper John » Sun Feb 11, 2018 10:07 pm
guest wrote:For me it's the fact that Venables murdered a child, "rehabilitated", jailed again, "rehabilitated", jailed again.........will be released into the community again under anonymity.
Your brother, in one sense, was lucky to know his neighbour was a sex-offender from the on-set. Knowing your brother as you do, how do you think he would he have felt (hypothetically of course) if after his children had been socilaising with this neighbour then your bother found out he was a nonce and a convicted child murderer?
I feel there's a difference when you are made aware and safeguards are put in place, as your brother did. Can I ask do you think your brother would have looked at this all differently if his neighbour had had the prison record Venables has?
Also, I'm curious who told your brother initially?
Oh I think his and my sister in law's attitude would have been very much different if the bloke had been a child killer, what they could have done about it though is another matter. They were never informed officially or by the vendor, not surprising really with the latter.
This was quite some years ago now and the 'disclosure' laws about sellers informing buyers of anything untoward were a lot more lax then if applicable at all. Even today I'm not sure whether something like that would be covered by those laws anyway.
They were told about him through the local grapevine once they had been there a short while. Apparently he had molested a young girl and concerned people thought it their duty to tell them as they had young girls, which I suppose is only natural.
He still lived there when my brother and his wife moved again, for all I know he still does and as far as I'm aware he didn't offend again. It's odd though, after a few years it was just got forgotten and none of us gave him a second thought.
I did ask my brother once if he ever spoke to the man being next door neighbours and that, he said he had nodded and said hello from time to time and my brother reciprocated but thats about all, the bloke kept himself to himself in the main and thats the way my brother and his family liked it, in the end you just kinda accept it if thats the right term, based I suppose on the fact he's not harmed you or your family.
Something I didn't say, this bloke had a wife and a couple of kids a boy and a girl, though I'm not sure if she was the wife when he committed the offence and I can't actually remember now how long before my brother moved there he'd done this crime. I remember in the early days my sister in law telling me and my partner that quite a few 'strangers' visited their house on a regular basis, she thought social workers probably.
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For me it's the fact that Venables murdered a child, "rehabilitated", jailed again, "rehabilitated", jailed again.........will be released into the community again under anonymity.
Your brother, in one sense, was lucky to know his neighbour was a sex-offender from the on-set. Knowing your brother as you do, how do you think he would he have felt (hypothetically of course) if after his children had been socilaising with this neighbour then your bother found out he was a nonce and a convicted child murderer?
I feel there's a difference when you are made aware and safeguards are put in place, as your brother did. Can I ask do you think your brother would have looked at this all differently if his neighbour had had the prison record Venables has?
Also, I'm curious who told your brother initially?[/quote]
Oh I think his and my sister in law's attitude would have been very much different if the bloke had been a child killer, what they could have done about it though is another matter. They were never informed officially or by the vendor, not surprising really with the latter.
This was quite some years ago now and the 'disclosure' laws about sellers informing buyers of anything untoward were a lot more lax then if applicable at all. Even today I'm not sure whether something like that would be covered by those laws anyway. :dunno:
They were told about him through the local grapevine once they had been there a short while. Apparently he had molested a young girl and concerned people thought it their duty to tell them as they had young girls, which I suppose is only natural.
He still lived there when my brother and his wife moved again, for all I know he still does and as far as I'm aware he didn't offend again. It's odd though, after a few years it was just got forgotten and none of us gave him a second thought.
I did ask my brother once if he ever spoke to the man being next door neighbours and that, he said he had nodded and said hello from time to time and my brother reciprocated but thats about all, the bloke kept himself to himself in the main and thats the way my brother and his family liked it, in the end you just kinda accept it if thats the right term, based I suppose on the fact he's not harmed you or your family.
Something I didn't say, this bloke had a wife and a couple of kids a boy and a girl, though I'm not sure if she was the wife when he committed the offence and I can't actually remember now how long before my brother moved there he'd done this crime. I remember in the early days my sister in law telling me and my partner that quite a few 'strangers' visited their house on a regular basis, she thought social workers probably.