Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Edlington Attempted Murders


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The result was   keep. JForget 02:57, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

The Edlington Attempted Murders

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Procedural nomination after the proposed deletion was contested at requests for undeletion. The topic seems to be a non-notable news event. Regards,   A rbitrarily 0    ( talk ) 17:36, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
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 * Keep. This stub doesn't give a good picture of the crime or its impact. Two brothers of 10 & 11 lured two boys to woods then beat, tortured and humiliated them over a prolonged period, filming it on their mobile phones. Crime of this nature by children of this age is not run-of-the-mill, which is why this case has received intense and extensive coverage in the UK since first reported in April 2009. The Attorney General personally looked at the case to assess whether the sentences were too lenient, and the sentencing has been covered in comment columns, not just news reports. The case has been highlighted as a failure of child protection services, and of Doncaster Council. David Cameron, the leader of the Conservative Party, has used the case politically as an example of what he calls "Labour's moral failure" and "broken Britain", and has called for the full publication of the report into the case. The case has been compared to the murder of James Bulger, and the case of Mary Bell. I'll work on the article shortly. Fences  &amp;  Windows  18:13, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
 * p.s. The prod nominator and article nominator are both in the US: this may be a case of neither having heard of it (due to a lack of US coverage), but not checking the coverage before nominating. Fences  &amp;  Windows  18:20, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep as per Fences and windows. Edward321 (talk) 06:21, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
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