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to her mother, Annette, the RSPCA were never able to bring any charges against Meston because her daughter had withdrawn her statement.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

In A Government Of Failed Lawyers, Legal Caution Trumps Everything....

Tomorrow should be a watershed moment for children and families as the Online Safety Act comes into effect. But regrettably, it feels as if we are going backwards. The regulator Ofcom has decided to deploy timidity where ambition is needed. Rather than focusing on reducing harm and preventing tragedies, its approach seems aimed at minimising the economic costs for tech firms cleaning up the harm they have caused. Instead of prioritising the fundamental principles of child safety, one minister indicated that the codes coming into force were consulted on to make them “judicial review proof”. Legal caution trumps children’s safety.

And he's outraged because he has skin in the game, his daughter having killed herself. Purely down to social media? No. Obviously not, but he's not going to look inwards when there's a third party to blame. 

Teenagers are no longer at risk only from being exposed to suicide ideation and self-harm content by aggressive algorithms, a preventable harm that cost my daughter Molly her life.

Global law enforcement agencies are clear that some young people, often struggling with their mental health, are being groomed to commit violent acts against themselves and others on video or live streams. These groups are driven by the same “fluid ideologies” and violent motives that have been thrust into the spotlight by Axel Rudakubana and the horrific events in Southport.

Yes, he's seemlessly switched from 'social media will tell your kids to kill themselves!' to 'social media will tell your kids to kill other kids!'. 

I want to be clear that the secretary of state’s inaction and inertia will cost more young lives. His proposals are the sticking-plaster politics that the prime minister has rightly said he rejects. Bereaved parents are now losing trust in Kyle. We very much believe the public is on our side – 85% of parents want stronger laws. Parents want the government to act decisively on the side of children and families.

Why don't parents act decisively themselves? Why do they need the government to do it? If you think social media is a risk, don't buy your children a smartphone.  

Of course, there are those who refute this, putting the free expression of platforms over reasonable and necessary measures to protect children from harm. Among them is a hawkish White House, which has issued an executive order that instructs officials to “recommend appropriate actions to counter” the Online Safety Act.

UK parents are watching, too. They do not want their children’s safety jeopardised by an exported agenda written by tech libertarians and JD Vance. They expect to be heard by their own government.

The answer's in your own hands. You're the grown ups here. Stop looking to Big Nanny Government to blame.