Jennifer Cardy murder 'unique in Northern Ireland'
Robert Black was arrested by the police in 2005. He was accused of abducting and murdering the nine year old girl named Jennifer Cardy. Black was proud of his history of abusing girls. Even knowing that what he is doing is wrong (his thinking), but Black keeps on doing it (his action). The judge says the word "fantasy” of Black is, in fact, a not explicit confession. The Cardy ‘s family was shock when they heard those words from Black. Jennifer’s mom couldn’t hold her tears when she listened to the words came from Black. Black refused to acknowledge his guilt or others crimes that he had done before. He was asked if he had ever turned his “fantasy” into reality, he replied: "Not until I was caught in 1990". The case still continues. Black once said "I used to think 'could I, should I, will I?'. But, does he really have mental illness? A normal person wouldn’t kill other people then say “I knew it was wrong, but I couldn’t help it?” It is just an excuse for his crime.
Through the article above, we can connect to Ken Kesey’s novel One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest. From the novel, we know that Mc Murphy is a patient in the mental hospital. The similarity is that the murder’s thinking, Black, and the patient, Mc Murphy is the same. For Black, the readers know that what he had been done is wrong. But for Black, himself insisted that he did not do anything wrong. Same for Mc Murphy, he tried his best to go against the Combine and claimed what he did was right, (for the sake of the patient’s freedom, but it wasn’t actually true). In the end, we know the result that both Black and Mc Murphy will be killed due to what they had done. Another reason is that, both Black and Mc Murphy have the right to do what they want, but breaking the laws is considering as doing wrong thing.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-15369260
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-The Cardy family listened from the public gallery, and were visibly shaken, as he outlined how he would justify the abuse in his own mind.
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-Pat, was no longer able to listen to the harrowing evidence and, in tears, she was helped from the courtroom.
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-The revelations came as the prosecution closed its case in the trial of Scottish serial killer Robert Black.
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