Notorious British child murderer Ian Huntley is reported by The People to have been given a Wii to stop him going through with suicide threats, and warders have been ordered to play with him. According to the report, he was first given a GameCube but complained it was out of date, so the prison upgraded his system. How nice for him.
Huntley is one of Britain's most detested figures after he was found guilty of murdering two schoolgirls, Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, in 2003. He has tried to commit suicide three times, and apparently Franklin Prison is so desperate to keep him from succeeding, they're prepared to do whatever he wants to keep him happy.
"Huntley has been asking for a Wii for months," states a prison source. "When he moved to Frankland in February he was given a Nintendo GameCube -- but after only a few weeks he began complaining it was out of date. Management are desperate to stop him going though with threats he's made to kill himself and by giving him a Wii they believe they can take his mind away from harming himself in any way."
The People is a publication that enjoys its celebrity scandal, but with the way Britain's prisons are run, I wouldn't be shocked if this turns out to be true. According to the article, Huntley gets his own TV and CD player while warders are instructed to pamper him. If true, this is pretty disgusting stuff all round, yet sadly ... not shocking at all.
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6:22 PM on 09.08.2008
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What a dumb cunt.
i'm getting idea's here.
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So if you say(and attempt) to kill yourself over in Britain, you get free stuff? I need to move over there then, I'm in the wrong country.
Toss a couple of razor blades into his cell and tell him to either man up or shut up. Also, remind him that it's down the block, not across the street.
Why do I get the feeling you don't even pay taxes, or read the article, or even really care?
just another fucker who SAPS OUR TAX DOLLARS, fuck him, if he's upset, he has just one operation to perform: /wrist
What? YOUR? DOLLARS?
Prick.
So punish the innocent and reward the guilty? Don't you just love society?!?!?
The Patriots were right!!! :O
That's cruel and unusual punishment.
Maybe every time someone kills themselves, they make the workers stay an extra year or something.
If he's bored, what they hells wrong with a chessboard, some books or some playing cards? All the jails are full and our government has no balls half the time anymore.
I'm sorry to see my taxes being spent on this fucker, because some are too chicken to let him top himself. If he wants a Wii, his family or himself should be paying for it. If that's how it was purchased, then I really don't care what he does with it, despite him still not deserving such perks.
Yanks, at least your government actually believes in cons still doing hard time, where ours just wants to rehab them all, when they should be serving our society in payback somehow.
Let the fucker kill himself.
What an absolute idiotic situation, he should not even be allowed the wii.
I've just lost some faith in the engilish legal system.
What asshats,really.
give him the death penalty, not a Fecking wii
Well I give him about a month till hes demading something else.
Quick, hide the Cheerios, it's a cereal killer!
Ahem, sorry.
OOOOOOOH BURN!