UK News 19-12-2003 Huntley`s Mum: My Son Should Hang who: Soham killer Ian Huntley what: Deserves to die for what he did, says his mother when: Yesterday snippet: "Ian Huntley`s mother last night said he should be hanged," reports The Mirror. "Lynda Nixon, 49, still loves her son but cannot forgive him for the brutal murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman." "I truly wish we had capital punishment," she tells reporter Nick Henegan. "He`s my baby boy and I love him but he deserves to be strung up for what he`s done. I wish there was an electric chair that they could put him in." Meanwhile, "police forces were ordered yesterday to raise standards," says The Scotsman, "to ensure no more sex offenders like Ian Huntley are allowed to slip through the net and gain positions of trust." A leaked report revealed that it commonly takes two months for criminal records to be updated on the Police National Computer and Home Office minister Hazel Blears told the Commons yesterday that "police forces must do a lot better". And North East Lincolnshire Area Child Protection Committee (ACPC) is to hold an investigation after it emerged this week that the Cambridgeshire former school caretaker`s employers had been ignorant of a string of sex offences - including rape - allegedly committed by Huntley while he was living in Grimsby. [... more]

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