The mother of a murdered teacher has said she is “disappointed” a law banning extreme porn has not been implemented as well as it could have been.
Argus Achievement Award winner Liz Longhurst, who fought alongside former Brighton Kemptown MP David Lepper for the law – part of the 2008 Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill – to be implemented, spoke on the tenth anniversary of her daughter Jane’s death.
She wanted watching extreme porn to be outlawed because her daughter Jane’s killer, Graham Coutts, looked at horrifying pornographic images before killing her.
It is believed he murdered 31- year-old Jane in Brighton on March 14, 2003, although her body was not found until April of that year in Wiggonholt Common, near Pulborough.
The body of special needs music teacher Jane, of Shaftsbury Road, Brighton, had been set alight by pervert Coutts, who kept her body in cold storage in Coombe Road, Brighton, after murdering her.
'Disappointed'
Liz Longhurst, of Reading, said: “I am very disappointed that the law has not been used more.
“As far as I am aware it has only been used on a handful of occasions.”
“I am very disappointed, for example, that the judge in the Joanna Yeates’ trial [the murdered Bristol woman] did not tell the jury that the killer had viewed extreme porn until after he was convicted.
“Why was it that he only saw fit to tell them this then – when he had already been convicted?
“However, I am very glad there is such a law, even if I am disappointed it is not used as often as it could be.”
Mrs Longhurst, 81, said she never stopped thinking about Jane. She continued: “Of course I miss her. “But the way I look at it, although her life was not long, it was full.
“And who are we to say how long a life should last?
“She did so much in her life. She was a wonderful musician.
“I think about her all the time.”
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Comments
If you want to ban this kind of **** (which I am all for banning) lets be honest and equal about it - **** for females, and lesbians is ALSO extremely violent and wrong.
The article sounds like it is skewed towards blaming males/ male ****, so this needs addressing.
If you want to ban this kind of **** (which I am all for banning) lets be honest and equal about it - **** for females, and lesbians is ALSO extremely violent and wrong.
The article sounds like it is skewed towards blaming males/ male ****, so this needs addressing.
Thie Dangerous Pictures Act is wrong as it criminalises images of consensual BDSM. You would be hard pressed to find any genuine images of abuse online because there are already existing international laws that can be used for dealing with this material.
As for her bemoaning its not used enough, how exactly do you police what people look at in the privacy of their own home?
Making criminals of otherwise lawbiding people who simply have wierd sexual fetishes will not bring her daughter back and will not prevent the real criminals in this world from offending, who will continue to do so even if they were unable to access this stuff.
Thie Dangerous Pictures Act is wrong as it criminalises images of consensual BDSM. You would be hard pressed to find any genuine images of abuse online because there are already existing international laws that can be used for dealing with this material.
As for her bemoaning its not used enough, how exactly do you police what people look at in the privacy of their own home?
Making criminals of otherwise lawbiding people who simply have wierd sexual fetishes will not bring her daughter back and will not prevent the real criminals in this world from offending, who will continue to do so even if they were unable to access this stuff.