guest wrote:Grafenwalder wrote:Vicks wrote:
The murder case involving Scotland's youngest ever murderer is back in the news after Jamie Campbell's killer was boasting about life outside prison.
Richard Keith was only eleven years old when he repeatedly beat the three year old with sticks and stones and then drowned him.
He was found guilty of Culpable Homicide and was served eight years.
Richard Keith is now 39 and unlike the killers of James Bulger, he wasn't given a new identity.
I don't imagine many people outwith Scotland have heard of the case.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5375399/Scotlands-youngest-killer-enjoys-life-outside-prison.html
The problem i have with that article is, to quote the DM; "Miss McPhillips said the family are facing fresh agony after learning Jamie's killer is living five miles away and has been boasting about his new life online." Apparently by that's in reference to him now having a girl friend and posting on Facebook. I can't really see how that's 'boasting'.She said she had also been told Keith had boasted about killing Jamie, telling someone he ‘didn’t want to talk about it but he killed someone once’.
Is that not usual for a person whose committed murder to not want to talk about it? Would Miss McPhillips feel happier if he was telling everyone about a crime he committed 28 years ago, appearing on tv chat shows or selling his story to some rag like the DM? The murder was certainly horrific but unlike Venables it seems this man has been rehabilitated back into society.
I wonder if the Mail are going to be there to pick up the pieces after some crackpot vigilante mob have hunted him down and beat him to death? Or as has happened before, an innocent person.
I find it odd for him to mention it in the first place. Human curiousity being as it is the first thing I'd be doing is checking out his name any place I could.
Reminds me of facebook..............'feeling glum today'........'you ok hun?'..........'I don't want to talk about it'.
Maybe he never did as it's not mentioned or implied in a Scottish newspaper. Seems more likely to be a bit of Mail mischief making and pot stirring.
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scot ... d-11994326