Bolton in the news for horrid reason

Used to live just off Chorley New Road so walked into town via Queens Park hundreds of times. Very sad story, i can't imagine what the parents have been through.

From what i've read it does seem like a mental health issue, lets hope she either gets treatment or is not released back into the general public for many many years.

But also this far more edifying story also in the national press today.

 I once saw a play starring ex-Bolton School pupil, Sir Ian.  When he spoke, the lines had an air of absolute authenticity/credibilty....delivered with clarity to the back of the auditorium and on a different level from the rest of the cast (very sadly for them). It was like watching Freddie Hill on the same field as Ngog or Comley...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-55187161

okocha wrote:But also this far more edifying story also in the national press today.

 I once saw a play starring ex-Bolton School pupil, Sir Ian.  When he spoke, the lines had an air of absolute authenticity/credibilty....delivered with clarity to the back of the auditorium and on a different level from the rest of the cast (very sadly for them). It was like watching Freddie Hill on the same field as Ngog or Comley...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-55187161

Sir Ian should have a word with Lord of the Rags, the Marquis of Burberry, and see if he can get  him on the campaign. He's good at that sort of thing and really into books, you know.

Mind you he could buy it for himself with a few weeks wages.

There is a lot of anger out there on social media about the 8 year sentence given out. Its an emotive subject but surely if this woman is so mentally ill then i can't see a way of her being released and she may spend most of her life in a secure unit (and rightly so).

Lots of people saying her mental health state shouldn't have been taken into account as it was a premeditated attack. To me the real people to blame are the mental health agencies for allowing her to slip through the net, she should have been sectioned and treated way before it got to the very sad death of a 7 year old girl.