No Amount Of Laws Will Prevent This!

Holly Bramley's life was barbarically snatched away when she was murdered by her husband of nine years. The 26-year-old had been isolated from her family by 'evil monster' Nicholas Meston, who convinced her that her family didn't love her. He moved her 50 miles away from them without telling anyone - and the pair eventually tied the knot.

It's a sad story, and a familiar one, a woman so lacking in self-confidence and a sense of self-worth that a man becomes everything to her, no matter what he does... 

In the nine years Holly was with Metson, she was alienated from her parents, who were never invited to her wedding and didn't know it was happening. Tragically, it would only be 18 months later that he would cut up her body into 224 pieces at their Lincoln home before dumping her remains in a bag for life in a river. In the run-up to her murder in March 2023, Holly had reported Metson to the police for killing her pets in a gruesome fashion. On one occasion, she found her new puppy dead inside a washing machine with the drum still spinning after her husband dumped the dog inside. Another time, she fled to a police station with her rabbits in a bid to escape after he had killed her hamsters by putting them in a food blender and a microwave oven.

And did the authorities act? Well, they tried.  

However, according to her mother, Annette, the RSPCA were never able to bring any charges against Meston because her daughter had withdrawn her statement.

And, unwilling to accept that she's somehow bred and raised a woman so lacking in the instincts of self-preservation, her mother wants to make it everyone else's fault, hence the inevitable demand for legislation: 

Her grieving mother, pushing for a new law, said she had done everything in her power to convince her youngest daughter to walk away from the deadly relationship.In a bid to help others in a similar situation to her daughter, Annette is now calling for Holly's Law. The proposed legislation would see a nationwide animal cruelty register created for individuals who harm or kill animals, to be brought into legislation.

Personally, I'm in favour of such a law, but purely on it's own merits, not to try to prevent more deaths like this one. Nothing will do that, except raising daughters to have enough self-worth that they don't subsume their entire personality to a brute.  

Annette's petition for an animal cruelty register has reached over 50,000 signatures as she remains hopeful it will be brought into legislation similarly to Clare's Law.

And when the next murder happens despite this, what will be demanded then? 

Observe My Unshakeable Moral Authority

'As the mother of a murdered child, I demand you give me what I want!'

Esther Ghey, the mother of the murdered teenager Brianna Ghey, and the Oscar-winning actor Kate Winslet are calling on Keir Starmer to legally ban smartphones in schools, warning current guidance against allowing phones has created a “postcode lottery”.

And we are all supposed to acquiesce , because who could deny a bereaved mother anything?

She said a ban would have “solved so many issues” for her daughter, who was “sucked away from society and into the online world where she was at risk of so many harms”.

She didn't have a daughter, though. She had a mentally challenged son, and she allowed him to think he could trsnsition into a girl. So if she cannot be honest about that, why should anyone trust her on this issue?

The government has resisted banning smartphones in schools, insisting headteachers are able to take their own actions. It issued guidance in 2024 that “schools should develop a mobile phone policy that prohibits the use of mobile phones … throughout the school day, including during lessons, the time between lessons, break times and lunchtime”. But subsequent research among 2,467 secondary schools in April by the children’s commissioner, Rachel de Souza, found that while 90% had some restrictions on phone use, only 3.5% banned phones from school grounds and only 7.9% required pupils to hand in their phones for the whole day.

So they were given the freedom to action thisas they saw fit, and because they haven't been as strict as these people would like, that freedom must be stripped from them and central government must step in. 

The new Phone Free Education campaign is calling for ministers to introduce a full legal ban including funding for schools to pay for a lockable pouch or similar alternative.

How about 'No'...? In fact, how about 'Fuck off!'? 

No! No More Pointless Laws And Legislative Bureacracy!

We’ve had too many of these! Are there no genuinely accidental deaths anymore?

Sspeaking after the conclusion of the inquest, Benedict's mother Helen Blythe said: 'Three and a half years ago, we lost our son. Benedict died in a place where he should have been safe - his school. 'Benedict's death was preventable and was caused by a cascade of failures -individual, institutional, and systemic.'

Actually, no. For once, there’s no one to blame except fate, cruel nature and happenstance. 

Factors which the jury found 'probably caused' Benedict's death include the delayed administration of his adrenaline, opportunities for cross-contamination or mix up of milk, and that his allergy plan was not shared with teaching staff.

On Wednesday, the foreperson of the jury at Peterborough Town Hall said: 'We deem the probable source of the allergen that caused the fatal anaphylaxis is the ingestion of cow's milk protein, most probably from his own receptacle during break time.'

So, did staff stanfd around with their thiumbs up their arses, doing nothing? Reader, of course not. 

The inquest heard Benedict's adrenaline auto-injector (AAI) was administered twice by a teaching assistant, before CPR and a defibrillator were attempted but he died later that day at Peterborough City Hospital.

They had the equipment, they had the training, and it still didn't help. And of course, the grieving parents want something to change.

'We demand change. We call on this government to protect our children with Benedict's Law, making it mandatory to have an allergy policy in every school, staff allergy training including understanding allergies, how to manage them and identify signs of a reaction, and respond quickly in an emergency, and spare adrenaline allergy pens in every school.

They had all that, and it still didn't work. So how about you campaign for a law that all children with such life-threatening allergies be raised well away from normal life instead? It'd make more sense.