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ARRRGHHH whats this ?

Would removal of the house bring any closure for the family?
If it (same as Fred Wests) gets turned into something else would that make the hurting any less?
The house gets demolished the memories, feelings attached to it / the monster that lived there do not - what has been gained? What satisfaction is there to be gained by demolishing a building in this instance?

Just curious to your thought? Sorry if this may sound cold hearted even callous certainly isn't meant that way.
 
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Quite a respectful chap by the sounds of it, Nilsen, in context alongside his fellow serial murderers.

Took care of the bodies real well until it all just started to get a bit too much to handle.

Bless.

Is he still alive? I think he might be iirc.
 
Marmalade said:
Quite a respectful chap by the sounds of it, Nilsen, in context alongside his fellow serial murderers.

Took care of the bodies real well until it all just started to get a bit too much to handle.
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Well, until it got too much for the drains to handle. :|

Yeah, he's still alive. I think.
 
yeah he seemed day to day normal - if it wasn't for the house full of dead bodies and his dressing up games / routine that he used to go through he seemed a decent enough bloke.
 
He just wanted a cuddle tho! ;p

But yeah, there was a bit of a backlog towards the end.

He doesn't get the same press blokes like the Yorkshire Ripper do, in fact, I don't remember seeing any pieces about him 'cept for the odd crime show going over the events. Hrmn, I shall have a looksee to find what he's been up to.
 
I think he is still locked up -Mind You

Nilsen's minimum term was set at 25 years by the trial judge, but the Home Secretary later imposed a whole life tariff, which meant he would never be released. But after the Home Secretary was stripped of his powers to set minimum terms in November 2002, Nilsen could be freed on life licence as early as 2008 because of his original 25-year minimum sentence. His case could also be helped if a European Court of Justice case - currently being held - outlaws lifelong imprisonment as a violation of human rights. In 1993 he was given permission to give a televised interview from prison.
 
Have to say, I can vouch for Cranley Gardens, lovely area I used to live round that way (right after Nilsen moved out as it were, actually). "2nd floor 1 bed flat 'with history' £265K"...gotta love London prices.
 
Doubt he'll ever get released.

And Cranley Gardens has a lovely English ring to it, great street name ...

I hadn't heard of Much Marcle until the West thing happened, but I thought the same about that; what an awesome sounding village/town.
 
Bear, I do think that demolishing the house would bring some kind of closure to the family and the community. If it remains, it'll be forever an open sore, and will be a source of constant trouble for the police as it'll keep getting targeted by vigilantees, and this will get loads of media attention, just making things even worse for April's family. That is my thinking.
 
When somebody is murdered on a road, in a park we don't attach the same emotions though. If it was in a block of flats nothing is done about it - it gets scrubbed, it gets re let / sold and a new life starts in that building ?
 
If its your everyday run of the mill faceless anonymous stab in the back murder, I think its possible for everyone in the local (except maybe the family) to move on. But due to the nature of this case & trial, peoples imaginations can run wild with the sequence of events and visualisation of the suffering that took place in that house.

It was a protracted anguished search that involved everyone in the community, and the knowledge she was in that residence the whole time adds a different angle to the case.

If I lived in that community I'd find it easier to walk past an empty plot than walk past that house everyday.

I see your point though.
 
that is true Bear, but i dont think it changes the points i made in post #32. What you are talking about are practical concerns, you cannot very easily divert a road (but they are often made safer in accident hot spots) or demolish a whole block of flats. Its just becomes impractical.

No one has come to expect such things to happen, but since Cromwell street and the Soham murders it has come to be expected for cases like this. This following opinion may sound very cold hearted and it belies the cynical beliefs i have aboud newspapers, but if April Jones had have been prettier (as pretty as madeline mccann or the Soham girls) then the story would have been on many more front pages for much longer, and much more pressure would be put on the local authority.
 
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I thought the April case was on the news loads. I think the McCann case was big because it was international and the parents admitted to leaving the kids alone. Hrmn, dunno, haven't compared the two properly, but there are significant differences between the two cases at first glance.

A better comparison would be between the April case and the Shannon Mathews one.
 
I know what you both mean it's just easier all round to have the house removed, for the family, community. It's hard to see a house like that and not imagine what horrors happened? Surely though we should be able to control those thoughts (I'm not talking about being Vulcan) but just see it for what it is - a house?
 
David Askews was bullied and tormented for years before his death - (god only knows what he went through). His house was not demolished, nor the houses of the bastards that tortured him leading upto his death. Maybe because he was an adult with learning difficulties we don't have the same feelings for him as we do a young child?
 
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