On a couple of occasions on this blog I have commented on the end of murder trials and how they have reflected the wider society - and how the wider society have affected the cases themselves.
Similarly I want to do the same for the case of Reamonn Gormley. Reamonn died a year ago today at the hands of two polar opposites to him. It was at the hands of these two that he fell on a street in Blantyre, Scotland, cynically stabbed in his neck for his mobile phone and wallet.
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| Daryn Maxwell (left) and Barry Smith |
Quite often in life good people are taken away from us but in Reamonn's case he was taken away by two societal vacuums. Police mugshots instill many emotions in us: Hindley and Brady is was revulsion; Sutcliffe it was fear; Venables and Thompson it was complete bewilderment. In the faces of the two who were sentenced it is only complete anger. In Maxwell I see all the cliches in a human I wish to avoid, however in those dead, beady eyes, the depressing skinhead hair cut and the overweight stagger something is nagging. Smith is similar: the same GI haircut, the tight, mealy mouth, the dead beady eyes and the tattooed neck. They wouldn't look out of place fulfiling their "Call of Duty" fantasies in Afghanistan, wanting to wipe out any "raghead" who got in their greedy way.
Maxwell's life towards his sentencing and after is worth shit. You can point out the societal causes as to what made him snuff out a life so casually, but it is pointless. I sincerely hope that the prisons which the state has incarcerated these two pieces of shit allow larger stabs wounds to enter every possible important organ that were wasted on them. Better still would be the castration of glands deadened by the dirty carpet thrills of violent computer games and the unceasing diet of Gregg's pasties.
Reamonn was an active individual, and did things that helped out his wider society without seeking anything in return. He was loved for this. You can pour scorn on the reactionary tabloids when it comes to persecuting the criminal but with this case something is very different. Perhaps it was a societal murder, but I really do think that Reamonn was taken from the world by two evil and stupid people. I hope that they get theirs.
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