Blue Lagoon Murders and Baby P Essay

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Rafal Skorupski Essay on Blue Lagoon Murders and Baby P case Once in a while there is a case of abuse that hits the screens of our televisions and front pages of our daily newspapers. Very often as a result of revealing these cases follows a revision of legislation that is aimed to prevent such cases from happening in the future. Two of such cases that happened in recent years that I will discuss in this essay are Blue Lagoon Murders and the case of Peter Connely, later known as Baby P. Let me first concentrate on the Blue Lagoon Murder. This case was revealed in May 2009 when two dog walkers discovered a headless body in a lake called Blue Lagoon in Bedfordshire. That discovery triggered a criminal investigation. As a result of the investigation four members of the same family and two other women have been found related to the death of the man, identified as Michael Gilbert. The court case that soon followed has established that Michael Gilbert has been abused “for entertainment” for many years and has been kept prisoners at the address where he lived by the six people involved. Prosecutor Mr Stuart Trimmer has established that Michael Gilbert has been a vulnerable adult who was estranged from his own family and rented a room from his tormentors. That was the place where all the abuse took place. On a few occasions when Mr Gilbert managed to escape he was forcibly brought back. He also established that the victim was repeatedly hit with a baseball bat and had pliers attached to his genitals and was lead around the house like a dog on a lead. Prosecution has also learned that at least on one occasion Mr Bilbert was seen made to stand against the wall while his tormentors shot him with an air rifle. The abusers devised a game in which they charged sums of money to physically assault Michael Gilbert. By the end of his life they started to jump on his

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