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It is easy to speak of a reviled prisoner unlovingly because we believe that there is no way that we might ever be influenced to participate in something terrible. St Francis of Assisi showed us a better way when he reminded the pitiful drunkard priest’s accusers (there are few spectacles so pitiful as the drunkard priest!), “There but for the grace of God go I.”
St Francis’ rôle model was none other than Jesus Christ, who mitigated when he encountered the woman caught in adultery, which was a capital offence at the time. The Lord Jesus talked her accusers out of administering the sentence which was hers under the law! He then cautioned her to sin no more.
Jesus mitigated even when he was nailed up to die. “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.” He did not wait for them to know what they were doing. Jesus interceded because they knew not what they did.
Once Jesus had been crucified, buried and had risen again, we could be forgiven for thinking that people would have learnt to leave his followers alone. Yet they stoned Stephen also. Did Stephen cry out, “You have no excuse this time! You are all evil!”? No. He followed Christ’s example. He mitigated again. He cried, “Lord, lay not this sin to their charge.” Even after the crucifixion, death and resurrection of Christ, Stephen acknowledged the complexity which brings fallen men and women to a public square to stone a man to death. We must not delude ourselves that, whilst he understood the ignorance which would lead respectable well-adjusted and happily employed Joe Bloggs to find himself at the head of a crowd of stone-throwing murderers or pulling the lever on a gas chamber, he would not understand an unemployed and unpopular man or woman who had killed in a dark and dank alleyway.
If Kmplayer zip file free download. we desire to follow Christ’s example – and we are indeed called upon in the Sermon on the Mount to strive to be good examples ourselves – we need to get into a mitigating spirit in relation to the inhabitants of Her Majesty’s prisons. That does not mean in most cases that we are saying that the sentence is too long or that there has been some other injustice. It just means that we need to approach their individual cases with understanding and compassion. If we do sense that somebody has been treated unjustly, for example in the case of a badly abused woman who has been sentenced to a long prison term on top of the life of abuse she has suffered already, then we need to have the courage to voice our concern, even though many may deride us for doing so. If we see somebody else standing up for an unloved prisoner, we need to be careful not to deride, even though we may not share their perspective on that case. God smiles upon us when we speak kindly of those beyond the perimeter of society’s understanding and acceptance. Direct involvement in a case might make it more difficult for us to do so: most of us are not involved directly in any given case.
Here I turn my attention to a case which I am convicted heavily to focus upon in conversation with others. I must speak of Colin Hatch, who strangled a seven-year-old boy, wrapped his body in bin liners and left him in a lift. Whilst nobody is obliged to read any further, it is my hope that you will.
If you are still reading, I ask kindly that you read the following summary of Colin’s background, his offences and his death. Once you have acquainted yourself with those details, you may proceed to read my commentary, as I am convicted strongly to share what in my view is the Christian response.
St Francis’ rôle model was none other than Jesus Christ, who mitigated when he encountered the woman caught in adultery, which was a capital offence at the time. The Lord Jesus talked her accusers out of administering the sentence which was hers under the law! He then cautioned her to sin no more.
Jesus mitigated even when he was nailed up to die. “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.” He did not wait for them to know what they were doing. Jesus interceded because they knew not what they did.
Once Jesus had been crucified, buried and had risen again, we could be forgiven for thinking that people would have learnt to leave his followers alone. Yet they stoned Stephen also. Did Stephen cry out, “You have no excuse this time! You are all evil!”? No. He followed Christ’s example. He mitigated again. He cried, “Lord, lay not this sin to their charge.” Even after the crucifixion, death and resurrection of Christ, Stephen acknowledged the complexity which brings fallen men and women to a public square to stone a man to death. We must not delude ourselves that, whilst he understood the ignorance which would lead respectable well-adjusted and happily employed Joe Bloggs to find himself at the head of a crowd of stone-throwing murderers or pulling the lever on a gas chamber, he would not understand an unemployed and unpopular man or woman who had killed in a dark and dank alleyway.
If Kmplayer zip file free download. we desire to follow Christ’s example – and we are indeed called upon in the Sermon on the Mount to strive to be good examples ourselves – we need to get into a mitigating spirit in relation to the inhabitants of Her Majesty’s prisons. That does not mean in most cases that we are saying that the sentence is too long or that there has been some other injustice. It just means that we need to approach their individual cases with understanding and compassion. If we do sense that somebody has been treated unjustly, for example in the case of a badly abused woman who has been sentenced to a long prison term on top of the life of abuse she has suffered already, then we need to have the courage to voice our concern, even though many may deride us for doing so. If we see somebody else standing up for an unloved prisoner, we need to be careful not to deride, even though we may not share their perspective on that case. God smiles upon us when we speak kindly of those beyond the perimeter of society’s understanding and acceptance. Direct involvement in a case might make it more difficult for us to do so: most of us are not involved directly in any given case.
Here I turn my attention to a case which I am convicted heavily to focus upon in conversation with others. I must speak of Colin Hatch, who strangled a seven-year-old boy, wrapped his body in bin liners and left him in a lift. Whilst nobody is obliged to read any further, it is my hope that you will.
If you are still reading, I ask kindly that you read the following summary of Colin’s background, his offences and his death. Once you have acquainted yourself with those details, you may proceed to read my commentary, as I am convicted strongly to share what in my view is the Christian response.
Colin Hatch’s childhood was an isolated one. His father, who used to subject his mother Sandra to violent beatings, left Sandra and little Colin when Colin was just four, and Colin suffered nightmares, screaming fits and bedwetting as a result. Colin never had a true friend, and rather than go to school where he was so lonely, he would ride the buses of his home town instead. At the age of twelve he was raped by a bus driver. At fifteen, the sexual offences began. First, he was convicted of an indecent assault upon a fourteen-year-old boy, for which he received a two year supervision order. Six months into his supervision order, he received a suspended sentence for an assault upon an eleven-year-old boy. Three years later, he received two years’ probation for the kidnap and indecent assault of a fourteen-year-old boy. Around that time he also abused a ten-year-old boy in a lift (the same lift in which he was later to dump his seven-year-old victim Sean’s body). At the age of nineteen, Colin was handed a three-year sentence for sexually assaulting an eight-year-old boy in a laundry room in Streatham. Colin throttled his victim till he passed out, but Colin fled the scene and the little boy survived.
Thepsychiatrist Dr Anthony Wilkins recommended that Colin be sent to Broadmoor, and Colin’s own lawyer warned that Colin was dangerous and would kill again upon release. Despite the recommendations of a psychiatrist and a lawyer, coupled with Colin’s deeply disturbing offending history, Broadmoor rejected Colin on the grounds that he was not dangerous enough for its care. As a result, Colin could not be detained indefinitely, and was handed a three-year sentence. Whilst Colin was serving his sentence, Colin’s mother found some of his writings, in which he described his paedophilic fantasies. In one story, about riding around on buses with a young lad, he wrote, ‘Then I would get him round the throat. I would squeeze until he was choking. I would then let off a bit. When he started to breathe I would strengthen my grip. I would kill him and hide him under a seat. Then I would gallivant all night on buses.’ Colin’s mother Sandra hid the letters in a cupboard in her bedroom. After Colin was paroled, he moved back in with his mum and became known to locals as “the doorman” because he would spend all day at the street entrance to the block of flats in which he and his mother lived, and would hold the door open for people. Clearly, Colin was emotionally a very lonely young man. Eleven weeks into his parole, he murdered little Sean Williams. Colin lived another seventeen years in jail, and it was reported that he never formed a friendship during all of his years inside. In February 2011, Colin was murdered by Damien Fowkes, who, inexplicably, had been accommodated in close proximity to Hatch, even after Fowkes had attempted to murder Ian Huntley in another prison and had told prison officers that he wanted to kill men who had murdered children.
Thepsychiatrist Dr Anthony Wilkins recommended that Colin be sent to Broadmoor, and Colin’s own lawyer warned that Colin was dangerous and would kill again upon release. Despite the recommendations of a psychiatrist and a lawyer, coupled with Colin’s deeply disturbing offending history, Broadmoor rejected Colin on the grounds that he was not dangerous enough for its care. As a result, Colin could not be detained indefinitely, and was handed a three-year sentence. Whilst Colin was serving his sentence, Colin’s mother found some of his writings, in which he described his paedophilic fantasies. In one story, about riding around on buses with a young lad, he wrote, ‘Then I would get him round the throat. I would squeeze until he was choking. I would then let off a bit. When he started to breathe I would strengthen my grip. I would kill him and hide him under a seat. Then I would gallivant all night on buses.’ Colin’s mother Sandra hid the letters in a cupboard in her bedroom. After Colin was paroled, he moved back in with his mum and became known to locals as “the doorman” because he would spend all day at the street entrance to the block of flats in which he and his mother lived, and would hold the door open for people. Clearly, Colin was emotionally a very lonely young man. Eleven weeks into his parole, he murdered little Sean Williams. Colin lived another seventeen years in jail, and it was reported that he never formed a friendship during all of his years inside. In February 2011, Colin was murdered by Damien Fowkes, who, inexplicably, had been accommodated in close proximity to Hatch, even after Fowkes had attempted to murder Ian Huntley in another prison and had told prison officers that he wanted to kill men who had murdered children.
The first and most obvious question is one which was also once asked by Sean Williams’ parents: why had Colin Hatch not been sent to Broadmoor after his previous assault on an eight-year-old boy, despite the recommendation of the psychiatrist Dr Anthony Wilkins? Had Colin Hatch been sent to Broadmoor, he could have been detained there indefinitely. Broadmoor refused to admit him, stating that he was not dangerous enough (i.e. lack of beds in secure hospitals due to financial constraints – the same reason why your elderly mother might be sent home rather too soon after a hip replacement or stroke). So the judge could only sentence him to prison, where he would not receive adequate psychiatric treatment, and after three years he was released to murder Sean Williams.
Another question which, in a free society, people should be entitled to ask, is what explanations (an explanation is not the same as an excuse) there are for Colin Hatch’s offending behaviour, and what factors should allow us to feel compassion for Colin Hatch.
According to the Guardian, “Hatch had been ostracised and isolated during his seventeen years in jail.” He was obviously a very immature man when he committed his offences. If he never had any socialisation during his seventeen years inside, then he never had the opportunity to develop any social maturity, and his whole life was as lonely as his childhood. That is why I feel for him.
I would like to clarify that there is a difference between a child who is bullied at school, and a child who has no friends (though the child without friends will often be bullied too, of course, making matters even worse). The child without friends has severely restricted socialisation, which means that some emotions simply do not develop in the way that they should, producing what other people call a weirdo. And when that child is bullied for being a weirdo, he has nobody to turn to other than himself, hence a fantasy world develops: he needs that fantasy world, because he is so unwanted by the real world. Sometimes, during the transition to adulthood, that child will experience socialisation, often thanks to very understanding peers or older adults who realise that there is something very wrong and that a lot of work needs to be done to win that particular individual’s trust. If socialisation still does not happen during late teens or early adulthood, we are going to get a lonely child in an adult’s body. Depending on the nature of the inner child’s fantasies, the adult and child in one could be a very benign combination, or it could be a potentially very dangerous combination. Invariably, it is a distressing combination for the individual concerned.
When we delve into the past of somebody like Colin Hatch, it is likely that we will find awful incidents. Being raped by a bus driver at the age of twelve is one such incident. I feel that the psychological isolation of Colin’s childhood is what damaged his mind the most. He was raped by the bus driver because he was riding buses on his own all day. Only a psychologically deeply isolated child rides buses on his own all day.
Some may question why Colin’s mother hid his fantasy stories in her bedroom. Was she not a frightened mum protecting her son? Perhaps she knew his stories were the product of his impaired mind, and felt that when he was released from his first sentence, she would protect him from the world and give him the love he needed to keep him on the straight and narrow. Who knows? We feel desperately sad for little Sean’s mum Lynne, who must every day try to get through without her little boy, who would be a man now. Colin’s mum Sandra is a victim too: she gave birth to a little boy who became lonelier and lonelier; she had to watch her little boy grow up friendless; then at age fifteen the sexual offences started, followed by imprisonment, and the murder of somebody else’s little boy; and eventually, Colin was murdered himself, without, apparently, having ever made a real friend in his life. I like to think that Sandra might be comforted if God tells her in a dream that there are strangers out there who know that beneath the dreadful offending behaviour, Colin possessed decency and kindness too. To learn how to demonstrate feelings of decency and kindness to another, a person needs only one thing: a good friend.
I do not think that I am excessively liberal. Psychologically isolated children, and the impact of that isolation on their future adulthood, is an area which concerns me, hence my deep interest in this case. Some people, for whatever reason, are psychologically incapable of forming friendships during childhood and adolescence. During their teenage years, such people need to be “helped” to make friends, by highly responsible and compassionate peers who will keep communicating until eventually some mutual trust is established. That can be a long process, and most teenagers do not have the maturity or the patience: after a short while they will give up, rather than try to talk to a loner who doesn’t want to talk. The truth is that he may have a deep longing to mingle, but cannot.
The Scotsman reported in 2001 that, “Seventy per cent of paedophiles do not have a single close friend during childhood or adolescence. This deprives them of a relationship appropriate to their age and capacity for intimacy and may explain why they turn to abusing children.”
In Scandinavia nothing that I have said about Colin Hatch would elicit widespread surprise. Social commentators in Victorian Britain would also have recognised it as a common analysis. Acknowledging that this is modern Britain in which an illiberal printed media has informed people’s thought more effectively than the Gospels, and that in all likelihood none of the above has convinced anybody who is still reading that we can legitimately feel exceeding compassion for Colin Hatch (for compassion does not come in half measures, as he who feels partial compassion for somebody must also feel partial disdain which nullifies compassion), I will sign off with this thought: in this country, we sentence people to be detained in prison, not to be taken hostage and strangled in prison after being housed in close proximity to a prisoner who had already attempted to murder a vulnerable inmate elsewhere.
Another question which, in a free society, people should be entitled to ask, is what explanations (an explanation is not the same as an excuse) there are for Colin Hatch’s offending behaviour, and what factors should allow us to feel compassion for Colin Hatch.
According to the Guardian, “Hatch had been ostracised and isolated during his seventeen years in jail.” He was obviously a very immature man when he committed his offences. If he never had any socialisation during his seventeen years inside, then he never had the opportunity to develop any social maturity, and his whole life was as lonely as his childhood. That is why I feel for him.
I would like to clarify that there is a difference between a child who is bullied at school, and a child who has no friends (though the child without friends will often be bullied too, of course, making matters even worse). The child without friends has severely restricted socialisation, which means that some emotions simply do not develop in the way that they should, producing what other people call a weirdo. And when that child is bullied for being a weirdo, he has nobody to turn to other than himself, hence a fantasy world develops: he needs that fantasy world, because he is so unwanted by the real world. Sometimes, during the transition to adulthood, that child will experience socialisation, often thanks to very understanding peers or older adults who realise that there is something very wrong and that a lot of work needs to be done to win that particular individual’s trust. If socialisation still does not happen during late teens or early adulthood, we are going to get a lonely child in an adult’s body. Depending on the nature of the inner child’s fantasies, the adult and child in one could be a very benign combination, or it could be a potentially very dangerous combination. Invariably, it is a distressing combination for the individual concerned.
When we delve into the past of somebody like Colin Hatch, it is likely that we will find awful incidents. Being raped by a bus driver at the age of twelve is one such incident. I feel that the psychological isolation of Colin’s childhood is what damaged his mind the most. He was raped by the bus driver because he was riding buses on his own all day. Only a psychologically deeply isolated child rides buses on his own all day.
Some may question why Colin’s mother hid his fantasy stories in her bedroom. Was she not a frightened mum protecting her son? Perhaps she knew his stories were the product of his impaired mind, and felt that when he was released from his first sentence, she would protect him from the world and give him the love he needed to keep him on the straight and narrow. Who knows? We feel desperately sad for little Sean’s mum Lynne, who must every day try to get through without her little boy, who would be a man now. Colin’s mum Sandra is a victim too: she gave birth to a little boy who became lonelier and lonelier; she had to watch her little boy grow up friendless; then at age fifteen the sexual offences started, followed by imprisonment, and the murder of somebody else’s little boy; and eventually, Colin was murdered himself, without, apparently, having ever made a real friend in his life. I like to think that Sandra might be comforted if God tells her in a dream that there are strangers out there who know that beneath the dreadful offending behaviour, Colin possessed decency and kindness too. To learn how to demonstrate feelings of decency and kindness to another, a person needs only one thing: a good friend.
I do not think that I am excessively liberal. Psychologically isolated children, and the impact of that isolation on their future adulthood, is an area which concerns me, hence my deep interest in this case. Some people, for whatever reason, are psychologically incapable of forming friendships during childhood and adolescence. During their teenage years, such people need to be “helped” to make friends, by highly responsible and compassionate peers who will keep communicating until eventually some mutual trust is established. That can be a long process, and most teenagers do not have the maturity or the patience: after a short while they will give up, rather than try to talk to a loner who doesn’t want to talk. The truth is that he may have a deep longing to mingle, but cannot.
The Scotsman reported in 2001 that, “Seventy per cent of paedophiles do not have a single close friend during childhood or adolescence. This deprives them of a relationship appropriate to their age and capacity for intimacy and may explain why they turn to abusing children.”
In Scandinavia nothing that I have said about Colin Hatch would elicit widespread surprise. Social commentators in Victorian Britain would also have recognised it as a common analysis. Acknowledging that this is modern Britain in which an illiberal printed media has informed people’s thought more effectively than the Gospels, and that in all likelihood none of the above has convinced anybody who is still reading that we can legitimately feel exceeding compassion for Colin Hatch (for compassion does not come in half measures, as he who feels partial compassion for somebody must also feel partial disdain which nullifies compassion), I will sign off with this thought: in this country, we sentence people to be detained in prison, not to be taken hostage and strangled in prison after being housed in close proximity to a prisoner who had already attempted to murder a vulnerable inmate elsewhere.
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A year before he was jailed for attacking the eight-year-old, Hatch abused a boy of 10, dragging him into the same lift where he was later to dump Sean's body. He indecently assaulted the youngster. Sean Williams In 1993, in Finchley in London, seven-year-old Sean Williams was snatched after going for a bike ride. Colin Hatch was found guilty of the sex murder of Sean Williams, who was strangled to death. Murdered: Seven-year-old Sean Williams, right, was snatched and killed by Colin Hatch on a summer’s evening in 1993 at these flats in Finchley, left Hatch, 38, was serving life for the murder of.
A 35-year-old inmate has been arrested on suspicion of murdering child killer Colin Hatch at a maximum-security prison. Sexually assaulted and then choked to death Sean Williams after luring. Colin Hatch Among the criminals that were murdered in prison, Colin Hatch was sentenced to prison for life in 1994 when he murdered a seven-year-old, Sean Williams, while on parole for child molesting in the past. Williams was abducted, sexually assaulted, and then choked to death.
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We can feel compassion for Colin’s killer, Damien Fowkes, too. Before the attack on Huntley and the murder of Hatch, he was already serving a discretionary life sentence (imposed in 2002) although he had never killed. His drug addiction had caused him to be a pain in the neck in his local community, and after he had entered a couple’s home in his hunt for cash and held the couple and their young child at knifepoint it was decided to throw away the key. Such are the two options available to many men ill with addiction: committing offences in the community, or sitting behind bars.
Having handed Fowkes a life sentence, the system also did him the dehumanising service, shortly before Hatch’s murder, of transporting him late to the funeral of his grandmother who had raised him. He was brought into the back of the church in chains, sobbing, right at the end of the service. He was then allowed to throw one flower on the grave before being whisked away.
Between 2006 and 2010 Fowkes had been involved in twenty-seven separate incidents of self-harm. After the attack on Huntley, during which Huntley was chased down a corridor with a gaping neck-wound and nearly died, Fowkes made clear his wish to kill child-killers. The judge at Fowkes’ trial for the attacks on Huntley and Hatch expressed grave concern that Fowkes had been housed on the same wing as Hatch after he had already attacked Huntley and told prison officers that he wanted to murder child-killers. Some prison sources expressed similar disbelief that Fowkes and Hatch were accommodated in such close proximity.
Fowkes suffers from a severe personality disorder and would be better off in hospital. However, as his sentencing judge told him last year, “A hospital order would not be feasible in your case because of the clear danger you pose to others, particularly those vulnerable offenders that you would encounter as a result of such an order.”
Paradoxically, whereas Colin killed a small child having been declared not dangerous enough for Broadmoor, Colin’s murderer will not see Broadmoor because he is deemed too dangerous for hospital.– ©Alsneta ThérèseSimons, Folkestone, November 2013
Having handed Fowkes a life sentence, the system also did him the dehumanising service, shortly before Hatch’s murder, of transporting him late to the funeral of his grandmother who had raised him. He was brought into the back of the church in chains, sobbing, right at the end of the service. He was then allowed to throw one flower on the grave before being whisked away.
Between 2006 and 2010 Fowkes had been involved in twenty-seven separate incidents of self-harm. After the attack on Huntley, during which Huntley was chased down a corridor with a gaping neck-wound and nearly died, Fowkes made clear his wish to kill child-killers. The judge at Fowkes’ trial for the attacks on Huntley and Hatch expressed grave concern that Fowkes had been housed on the same wing as Hatch after he had already attacked Huntley and told prison officers that he wanted to murder child-killers. Some prison sources expressed similar disbelief that Fowkes and Hatch were accommodated in such close proximity.
Fowkes suffers from a severe personality disorder and would be better off in hospital. However, as his sentencing judge told him last year, “A hospital order would not be feasible in your case because of the clear danger you pose to others, particularly those vulnerable offenders that you would encounter as a result of such an order.”
Paradoxically, whereas Colin killed a small child having been declared not dangerous enough for Broadmoor, Colin’s murderer will not see Broadmoor because he is deemed too dangerous for hospital.– ©Alsneta ThérèseSimons, Folkestone, November 2013