10 teenagers found guilty of murder in Houghton case



I’m a bit surprised that some of the names haven’t appeared on social media mind, I was having a look about to see if I recognised and of the family names as I probably went to school with some of their grandparents/ parents, but never came across

if you have kids or grand kids in the houghton/hetton area just ask them they will know most if not all of the names ,some still had Facebook profiles up a while ago maybe still have, one of them is named in the court listing, some of them have respectable parents who are stunned by what they have done . Others have what you might call a history of violence in their family
 
Aye I heard atleast one of them is from a decent family. I feel for the parents of those.

From what I gather the main culprit is. As it said in the published court case notes (I don’t think I’m saying anything untoward here if it’s publicly available), one of them had moved with his family from a different area to try and avoid slipping further into knife gang culture. Instead of a clean start his family have tried to give him he’s brought that culture with him and ruined multiple lives.
 
My whole problem with that is not one of them got a life sentence. When are we going to stop confusing the matter and calling it life. They have actually got very lenient sentences in my eyes. Life is not 15-17 years or whatever it is. Can’t call 8 years a life sentence at 14 years old. 22 when he gets out, he won’t be bothered one bit
The 14/15 year old will be out in 5 years maximum imo
 

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