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I think most people would agree that any murder, especially when committed by a child is a horrible thing.

However, having read the reports concerning the murder of Ann Maguire by William Cornick - then 15 - I find myself in a sort of state of shocked disbelief. The act itself is bad enough but what I find terrifying is his apparent attitude following his actions. He apparently shows no remorse and has been reported as telling psychiatrists that he remains proud of what he did.

I just can't get my head round it.

I think, unless he changes, he may well do a long stretch in Broadmoor.

In reply to mypyrex:

Mental Illness - don't try to get inside his head, not a place any of us want to be.

In reply to mypyrex:

I heard a psychologist this morning suggest that he is most likely in a fairly specific form of depressive state. It seems he thought he only had two options, to kill her or kill himself. Seems to have had a serious mental breakdown whatever the exact diognosis. Secure mental hospital seems the most likely outcome.

In reply to imkevinmc:


According to the comments of a criminologist in today's Telegraph he may well be psychopathic rather than mentally ill. Apparently there's a difference.

In reply to The New NickB:

>Secure mental hospital seems the most likely outcome.

I think more than likely. I feel as sorry for HIS family as I do for the family of Ann Maguire

In reply to mypyrex:


The psychologist I heard, was questioning that, but regardless he is clearly a danger to society, so for at least the next 20 years the outcome is the same.

In reply to mypyrex:

There's a queue of "specialists" that surface for everyone of these events, keen to pick up their fee.

Of course, none of them have met the perpetrator, so their opinion carries as much weight as this forum

In reply to mypyrex:




It's probably a good thing, then, that you don't work in psychiatric evaluation

In reply to Blue Straggler:


Too true

In reply to mypyrex:

Thank Jebus we don't have american gun laws or this would have been a US high-school type massacre. It wasn't just Ann Maguire that he had a problem with apparently.

In reply to mypyrex:

When I was 17 a classmate, the daughter of my GP who was also a psychiatrist, threw her posessions in the bin then took her father's shotgun and blew her head off in the garage. My own son is 15 now and as far as we can tell, a normal teenager with the usual fears and concerns. Of course I feel sorry for the victim and her friends and family but as the father of a 15 y.o. I can't help feeling sorry for William Cornick; he must have been in torment for years yet nothing was noticed and he was allowed to continue to this tragic conclusion. Now his life is wasted and he will probably one day come to feel shame and regret, yet this could have been prevented. My biggest fear is that my own son goes off the rails and does something stupid that I could have prevented.