An Important Question:

 If Whitelock had been executed after his first murder - would he have been able to deprive Wendy of her life?

The answer is a resounding, 100% NO!

Convicted killer who battered neighbour to death jailed for rest of his life.

Rod Minchin, PA

20 December 2024 at 3:40 pm

A convicted double killer will die in prison after being jailed for the rest of his life for murdering his neighbour whom he savagely attacked following his release.Brian Whitelock, 57, assaulted neighbour Wendy Buckney, 71, with a kitchen knife, a broken table leg and wooden shelving during a sustained assault in her own home.The bloodstained and naked pensioner was discovered in the living room of her home in Clydach, near Swansea, on August 23 2022. She had also been sexually assaulted.                                          AOL.                                                                                                  Blogger: since the abolition of capital punishment, hundreds of second murders have been committed when so-called 'lifers' were released from prison. Only a tiny fraction of killers face a whole of life tariff locked up.                                                                     Interestingly, the people who shout the loudest about so-called 'innocent people being executed' allegedly proving that there should be no death penalty - show zero concern for ladies like Wendy.                                     The executions of: Hanratty, Evans and Bentley are thrown into our faces as if 'such mistakes' are beyond the pale. Odd that mistakes: on roads, in hospitals,  and in factories which lead to death do not bring calls for: bans on cars, closing the NHS and shutting down workplaces.                                                             Hanratty? - I was one of the first people in the UK to learn of his established guilt at a meeting of JPs in Sheffield. Indeed, I met one of the team who found conclusive DNA evidence from Hanratty. Silence from those who had used this 'miscarriage of justice' to help abolish the life-saving death penalty in the UK.                  As for Evans, read this book below by the son of of one of the two people most responsible for his 'after death pardon'. It is wholly conclusive that Evans was guilty! What is more, the dishonest practices of Ludovic Kennedy and Eddowes (Senior) in pretending that Evans was innocent were profoundly immoral, indeed, nothing less than criminal!                          

Two Killers Of Rillington Place Hardcover – 23 Jun. 1994

by John Eddowes (Author)

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John Reginald Halliday Christie was already the murderer of at least two victims when Timothy John Evans, much younger and on the edge of idiocy, came to live with his wife at 10 Rillington Place. Christie is supposed to have framed Evans over the killing of his wife and baby daughter, and was even the principal Crown witness against Evans. Refuting claims that Evans was innocent of the crimes for which he was hanged but years later granted a free pardon, this book sets out to show that it was in fact Evans who killed both his wife and child, and then tried to blame Christie, who at that time had the bodies of two women buried in his garden. The book also argues that Beryl Evans was not even present at 10 Rillington Place when Christie was supposed to have been strangling her there; that, to accept Evans as innocent, we should have to believe in far greater improbabilities and absurdities than the presence of two stranglers in one house; that Evans tried to kill his wife more than once, just before the murder itself; that evidence showing Evans to be guilty was available at the time; and that commentators both then and since have altered the evidence to proclaim Evans's innocence.                                                                                                                                                As for Bentley, he was 100% guilty in law by dint of 'joint enterprise'. He was also morally guilty having bought the bullets for the gun that killed the police officer. There was, however, a scandal here - and that was that his 16 year old partner was deemed to be 'too young to hang' - even though he was demonstrably old enough to kill.                                                                                                                                                                         The fourth case which aided the abolition of the death penalty was as absurd as any of the above. Ruth Ellis - who had butchered her lover in the street by shooting him dead - apparently should not have hanged in 1955 because: a) She was female and b) She was pretty.                              I am guessing that not too many feminists would have been happy with this kind of specious argument.