What Amanda Platell is doing in her column about the dreadful attacks perpetrated by two young boys – however unwittingly – is the same thing she seems to be railing against, drawing conclusions about the nature of the case without the full facts.
The “apologists” she talks of are equally guilty of this, blaming society and some also painting the attackers as victims too, the tabloids are guilty of blaming their upbringing, and the Mail is cannot knowingly label them as pure evil.
None of these journalists have access to a detailed psycho-analysis of these two, none of them know the full details of their upbringing, yet journalists across the board continue to speculate on why these attacks happened.
The reporting throughout this case, especially in the Sun and slightly less to in the Mail has been despicable, the worst being the Sun’s list of how these boys attacked their victims, the gory details played out on the front page, a case of pure rubber-necking for the paper, who really play to the lowest common denominator. Phrases like “devil brothers” and “hell boys” may provide a cheap laugh, but when every story of this type is sensationalised in this way, horror stories like this lose their impact.
Even the clinical psychologist in the Sun is just speculating about how the two may have egged each other on to commit these acts, she doesn’t know why, we don’t know why and it’s possible the lawyers, parents and even the two children themselves don’t know why.
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