Originally Posted by Acrylic-bob I wonder how much Ian Brady and Myra Hindley have cost the taxpayer?

SHOPLIFTER Lela Selimi sandwiched an appearance in court between offences of shoplifting.

Blackburn magistrates heard the Albanian asylum-seeker started the day stealing clothing worth £115 from a town centre shop before attending court.

And having been made subject to a community rehabilitation order, she left court and committed two more offences.

Selimi, 21, of Victoria Street, Darwen, admitted stealing from Bay Trader and Argos, and handling goods stolen from Next and River island. She was made subject to a community rehabilitation order for three years and ordered to do 100 hours community punishment. Passing sentence, the chairman of the bench said the court had been very lenient.

"Should you commit similar offences in future it is very likely you will go to prison," he warned.

Francis McEntee, prosecuting, said Selimi had appeared in court last June 16 when she was made subject to a community rehabilitation order for offences of shoplifting.

"What is now clear is that the offences you are dealing with today were committed either side of that court appearance," said Mr McEntee. "Having taken some property from River Island before she came to court, the second theft was committed within hours if not minutes of her leaving this building."

Sian Hall, defending, referred to a pre-sentence report which she said showed her client had numerous problems.

"The report provides a great deal of detail of her traumatic life so far," said Miss Hall. "I don't feel it is appropriate for me to read those out in court and she finds them very difficult to cope with."

Originally Posted by Acrylic-bob I wonder how much Ian Brady and Myra Hindley have cost the taxpayer?

Originally Posted by garinda l'm sure Derek Bentley's sister didn't see her brothers 'mistaken' execution a small price to pay, so that the guilty don't walk free. No compensation was paid out either, so we saved even more money in the long term didn't we?

Originally Posted by garinda And Winnie Bennett would be closer to having a grave for her child if they'd have been executed in the 60's, l think not. At least for whatever reasons Hindley was able to help find victims bodies, thus providing some closure for those families 20 odd years later.

Originally Posted by Tealeaf I'm quite sure that just one hundredth of the money spent on keeping these two in accommodation, food medicine and toilet rolls over the last 40 years or so would have been sufficent to fund a proper search of Saddleworth Moor and recover the body of young Bennett.