Article: FUTILE SHOWOF BILE; Lynch mob should be ashamed.(Features)

Byline: Joan Burnie

WHAT did those who screamed and howled and chucked eggs at Maxine Carr's prison van on Wednesday think they were proving?

That they care more than the rest of us about the murder of Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells? That their outrage is somehow bigger and better than ours? That their bile and abuse contribute anything, anything at all, to this terrible event?

It was as pointless as it was mindless. Of course we are all sickened by what happened to Holly and Jessica. How could we not be? For the two weeks they were missing, they ...

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