Sadistic torture brothers
Two young brothers who tortured a 9 year-old and an 11-year-old boy were today sentenced to an indeterminate period in custody.
Sentencing them at Sheffield Crown Court, the judge told them they would serve a minimum of 5 years.
The judge had spent two days listening to harrowing accounts of how the 2 brothers, then aged 10 and 11, lured their victims to a secluded spot and subjected them to 90 minutes of violence and sexual humiliation in Edlington, South Yorkshire, in April 2009.
The victims were:
- strangled,
- hit with bricks,
- made to eat nettles,
- stripped and
- forced to sexually abuse each other.
www.independent.co.uk
But the Conservative leader David Cameron added:
?Are we just going to say this is an individual case?
That there aren?t any links to what is going wrong in our wider society, in terms of family breakdown, in terms of drug and alcohol abuse, in terms of violent videos, in terms of many of the things that were going wrong in that particular family?
?I think we should ask these questions:
-Do we have a problem in Britain with violent crime?
-Do we have a problem with some aspects of what's going on in childhood?
-Do we have a problem with our care system?
Answer: ''Yes, we do.?
Sentencing them at Sheffield Crown Court, the judge told them they would serve a minimum of 5 years.
The judge had spent two days listening to harrowing accounts of how the 2 brothers, then aged 10 and 11, lured their victims to a secluded spot and subjected them to 90 minutes of violence and sexual humiliation in Edlington, South Yorkshire, in April 2009.
The victims were:
- strangled,
- hit with bricks,
- made to eat nettles,
- stripped and
- forced to sexually abuse each other.
www.independent.co.uk
But the Conservative leader David Cameron added:
?Are we just going to say this is an individual case?
That there aren?t any links to what is going wrong in our wider society, in terms of family breakdown, in terms of drug and alcohol abuse, in terms of violent videos, in terms of many of the things that were going wrong in that particular family?
?I think we should ask these questions:
-Do we have a problem in Britain with violent crime?
-Do we have a problem with some aspects of what's going on in childhood?
-Do we have a problem with our care system?
Answer: ''Yes, we do.?


