What would you do?

I'd do the decent thing, no matter how heart-breaking, and accompany him to the police station. Perish the thought!

I would hand him in - what is to stop him getting jealous of his next girl-friend?

yes, me too. I couldn't cope with the guilt

The parents in this case didn't seem like very nice people, especially the mother. She would have protected her son at all cost, and didn't see why she should be prosecuted. I can't see any of us thinking like that.

Hideous situation to be in but I would have to hand my child in but stand by them. What I had understood was that it was not so much a crime passionel but rather plotted and planned.

I think I'd do what the rest of you have said you would, but who can tell what they'd really do if it came to the crunch?

I'd do the same!

I thought the father and son sounded very arrogant and the mother completely cowed! Would be a dilemma though wouldn't it - tigeresses and cubs and all that.

I would not be able to live with myself if I did not make my child pay for what they had done.

This was not a spur of the moment or an accident, he was evil. Surely you would think if he could do it once he could murder again, where would that leave you, knowing you had aided in the killing of another innocent girl.

If you did not have the morals to shop him then maybe you were part of his problem thinking he could get away with it.

I must admit that in this case, it did seem like that to me.

I agree with Annobel. None of us really know what we'd do in some circumstances. However,going off at a tangent slightly but there was a case recently of a young girl who wasn't allowed on a late night bus because she was 20 pence short of the fare. The bus driver threw her off the bus and no one on the bus offered the extra money. She was attacked most horribly after phoning her mum for a lift and walking to their arranged meeting spot. How that bus driver or the people who were on that bus [who heard what was happening] can live with themselves is beyond me. I can state hand on heart that I would have paid all of her fare if necessary and also that 100% of the people on this forum would have done the same. It haunts me what happened to that girl, and makes me angry beyond belief; could have been any of our daughters.

This young man was a product of his upbringing. He had been indulged with everything he wanted from birth. One paper reported that when he wrote-off the new car his parents gave him for his 18th birthday his grandparents just bought him another one. Petted, cossetted and indulged he believed that he was entitled to anything and everything he wanted. When someone like his unfortunate victim dared to have a will of their own, he killed her. His parents are responsible for bringing him up to be the person he is and presumably saw nothing wrong in the person he had become. Their attitude during his trial and during and after their own trial is all one. The whole family were utterly selfish and self-obsessed and had the money to be so. Frankly I think the parents should have been sent to prison for a lot longer. With parole, they will be out of prison in 9 months.