The man being tried for the murder of Indian student Anuj Bidve has said he feels no remorse for his action. Kiaran Stapleton (21) told a psychiatrist after his arrest that he would be “lying” if he said he was sorry.
“If I said I was sorry, I would be telling a lie,” he told Nigel Eastman, a forensic psychiatrist. Giving evidence at the Manchester Crown Court, Prof. Eastman said Stapleton had a “very substantial lack of ability to feel what other people feel.”
“I don’t think he has got any real feeling for what he’s done, he’s sorry for his own situation rather than the victim’s,” he said.
Stapleton, who calls himself “Psycho Stapleton”, has pleaded not guilty to the charge of murder but admitted to the lesser offence of manslaughter on account of “diminished responsibility”.
Bidve (23), a postgraduate student of Lancaster University, was holidaying in Salford, Manchester, with his friends last year when in the early hours of December 26 the group was accosted by two white men in their 20s. One of them, later identified as Stapleton, shot him in the head at close range without any provocation. Bidve later died in hospital.
Keywords: Anuj Bidve, Kiaran Stapleton
In my opinion, there is no need to project the killer as the object of sympathy on grounds of his mental state. The killing of Bidve had been without provocation, and hence the case has to be fought to obtain justice for the victim and not possibly to save the killer on grounds of his mental state. If Kiaran has no remorse to what he has done, then he should be made to realize the meaning of what he is saying in practical terms. Life for life should be the apt judgement in this case. This would be harsh, but a just and deterrent pronouncement.
we have seen this quite often...whenever such event happens, the
perpetrator is shown in media as suffering from illness or madness or
whatever it may be...just to show that they by themselves aren't
responsible for their heinous crime but rather the victim is
responsible...what the heck??
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