Juliet and Pauline should have got life.
5 years is a joke and no justice. They're disturbed and sociopaths. No remorse. Just evil.
shareIf they were just a few years older they would have been hanged.
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As it happened, they grew up to be productive members of society and didn't kill again, I don't believe either has an adult criminal record.
So society got lucky that time, it gave light sentences to juvenile murderers, and they turned out not to be budding serial killers. It seemes they actually reformed.
That is only because they only wanted to kill Honora. They had no intention of murder again. Once Honora was out of the way their goal was to runaway to the USA and become famous.
shareLook, most people are likely to encounter more than one person they hate during their lifetime. If a person kills their own mother for saying unkind things and for interfering in their private life, who's to say that if they're released, they won't go on to kill a spouse or a boss or an in-law, or someone else who hit the same damn buttons?
Like I said, humanity got lucky with those two. Or it probably did, if either of them ever killed again, they got away with it. And Hulme at least grew up to write murder mysteries (under the name Anne Perry), so she spent decades studying murder techniques...