For those of us counting the days until the sentencing of the three killers of baby Peter, the worrying aspect is just how severe will be their punishment?

We do have some idea though that they will be in for ‘substantial sentences’ courtesy of the words of the presiding magistrate Stephen Kramer QC at the end of the recent trial. I happen to hold some real hope from that statement due to the fact that I have it on good authority that Judge Kramer is a magistrate not to be messed around with…

While it appears that little Peter’s suffering and death will earn his abusers an appropriate sentence in prison, such is not the case for a little two year old boy who suffered in very much the same way – Brandon Muir.

Brandon had the bad luck of being born to a heroin addicted prostitute, Heather Boyd, and spent his very brief 24 months on this earth paying the consequences for a mistake made by a ‘god’ who seems to reserve this unique kind of suffering for innocent, defenceless babies.

If that offends anyone reading this then please – how else do you explain it then…?

But when fellow addict Robert Cunningham took up residence in Heather Boyd’s squalid life little Brandon’s days became horrifically numbered. Despite desperate numerous pleas from Brandon’s grandmother, auntie and biological father, social services once again ignored warnings and fears and saw fit to leave Brandon to be the punching bag of two drug addicts.

As with baby Peter, Brandon was deemed better off living/existing in a filthy squat of a flat with a drug addicted, unloving mother and her sadistic, spiteful boyfriend. Both children never had a chance; no matter how many concerned relatives they had, nobody thought to just walk in and remove either child from their environment and worry about the consequences later…

Brandon was eventually killed by Cunninghams’ monstrous blow to his abdomen – so violent that his intestine was split – and while the baby was agonisingly vomiting bile he was dragged by his mother to a junkie squat nearby where she proceeded to get stoned. Brandon wandered from room to room in distress - vomiting – before dying in agony on the floor next to a filthy toilet.

For killing this child Robert Cunningham received a pathetic ten year jail sentence; it was one glimmer of hope for Brandon’s family that prosecutors would appeal this paltry punishment but Prosecutors have decided NOT to appeal the sentence.

A Crown Office Spokesman said “The sentence imposed was within the range available to the judge.”…it makes you wonder just what you have to do to get a life sentence in Scotland…

And Heather Boyd?…you will be heartened to know that she is receiving the treatment she so deserves. Escaping a prison sentence, she is now being hounded out of every ‘safe house’ in every town authorities find for her. Vigiliante mobs discover her whereabouts and the hate groups then move in. I am not advocating meting out punishment of the redneck variety – but if I found out this female was living next door to me…

And the final insult to all of this; Cunningham’s lawyers are to appeal his sentence. Justice? you go figure…

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