I’ve been expecting this to happen ever since he got jailed. He was an extremely depraved individual who still seemed to show no remorse and even laughed at his crimes. Even some of the worst criminals in prison would be disgusted by what he did, and it doesn’t surprise me that one decided to take him out.
How do I feel about it? I wouldn’t celebrate it because it’s not good that the prison service failed to prevent an inmate murdering another inmate. On the other hand, a violent death seems almost appropriate for how much of a monster Watkins was.
I didn’t know who this person was but reading that article it just got worse and worse; yeah this guy was absolutely lousy.
On the one hand, he has family, and it’s horrifying that prisons are this slack. On the other hand… I probably shouldn’t say my other thoughts. But let’s just say I’m not shedding a tear.
There’s someone in my family who got time for something similar and got released. I wish this happened to them.
I’m really sorry that happened in your family and hope you’re ok now
I’m fine, I hope his daughters are fine.
I saw them live in 2003 supporting Linkin Park, when I heard about the arrest and subsequent conviction and the true horror of his crimes… I destroyed the CD’s, I deleted the music from my computer.
I have never allowed their music to assault my ears again and never will.
I cannot and will not mourn such a piece of shit, and nor will I condemn the person who killed him… I’m not advocating that all paedophiles are killed, but I’m not going to be sad about a proven guilty and convicted being unalived.
I don’t want vigilante justice to be the way we deal with people who’s crimes go beyond the limits of morality.
Having said that, if someone rapes actual babies, there’s no rehabilitation for that person, there’s no saving them and if they ever were released it just means they’ll inevitably reoffend.
lol
I’d have preferred it if he got stabbed until he was critical, recovered and then repeated again and again.
Mate that’s a horrible idea! I mean, just think of the NHS resource that would have wasted.
I think judges and prosecutors are cowards who won’t go so far as to sentence child sex abusers to death, but instead sentence them to imprisonment, then put them in the general population knowing full well that that’s effectively a death sentence anyway.
If the state is going to have child sex abusers killed, then the prosecutors and judges should own it. And if they’re not willing to do that - if they can’t or won’t pass down a death sentence themselves - then they need to sentence them such that they’ll be protected from the other inmates.
I honestly don’t much care which they choose, but they need to choose one. This trick of avoiding responsibility by passing it on to inmates is cheap, dishonorable bullshit.
