You know what? I want to hear from this kid. I want a formal written statement publicised explaining what he was doing, why and what he thought the consequenses would be - along with a genuine apology.
Now I'm not suggesting this will "make things better" or should serve to reduce his sentence, no way, a man is dead because of this. But what we never seem to get as a society in cases like this, is a clear statement from the perpetrator as to WHY.
I think this would be part of the closure and moving-on process for people round the country. Obviously it won't do much if anything for Mr Currie's family but as long as the information wasn't malicious it could be beneficial.
There's a lot of talk in this forumn and around water coolers but none of us know why or can relate to what went on in his mind.
Theres a big problem in this country with increasingly younger people going around doing atrocious things but no-one knows why.
I want to hear from them and find out what we need to do to seer things right again.
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