Whatever happened 8 years ago cannot now be changed. The hate filled rantings of many people about what they would do to the young offenders serves to fuel the situation and sadly sells papers and makes more viewing figures for the television programmes. For example the BBC on the day that Thompson and Venables got their release spent nearly 25 minutes of the Newsnight programme discussing the situation. Nothing wrong with that, but at the end there was nothing positive produced at least for me. On another tack the doctor Harold Shipman is rumoured to have murdered maybe some 400 people and yet there is very little evidence, at least in the press, of hate and people shouting what they would do to him. One reason maybe is that many if not all the victims were elderly. Hypocrisy or what?