Face it, they're both awful worthless cunts, and an autism diagnosis should never be a criminal defence or argument that the person is not indeed, a moral defective who actively went out of their way to plan, participate in and commit what they clearly knew to be the worst crimes possible and chose to keep company with a similarly inclined female lunatic.i know it's super quick footage but the car dash cam footage of S and E walking home side by side after the attack i think is quite telling. I think it goes against his defence of saying he thought she was joking and he was just going along with her fantasy to please her. also goes against S saying E started the stabbing then said he didn't want to do it anymore. if he really thought she was bluffing and then she stabbed her mate in a frenzied attack, I'd be running home and running away from her. not going home with her side by side conversing!
I was also going over some of eddie's texts last night and he's a lot more of a willing participant than I remembered, there's a part where he SUGGESTS killing somebody else (a boy he thought was getting too close to a girl he liked) and even suggested ways of killing him. I think he kind of fooled me on the stand a little bit and I fell for the lost sheep act when his actions are actually really sinister and very similar to that of S's.
There always seems to be this weird societal binary thinking that goes on it cases of any type of couples who murder - apparently in high profile cases like this, the Bulgar murder and the Moors Murders that one by definition must have been the really bad one 'leading' the other, poor dear innocent 'nice' one who would have done no harm if only they hadn't met the other bleep, which leads to stupid sympathy campaigns for the one deemed to be the poor dear led-on one, who often turns out, as in the Bulgar case, to be rotten to the core. The lad in this case who is clearly a malfunctioning, morally defective and useless cowardly little troll (very brave when murdering a peer in a park, suddenly selectively mute and a giant fat blob of perfect uselessness in court), is currently benefitting from this dubious binary thinking because Jenkinson is such a perfectly special in yer face aggro idiot.
Fact is only a morally repugnant person CAN be led into this kind of crime if they are even led on at all which I truly doubt. Perhaps they are energized and emboldened by finding a friend who is equally as inherently misfit and criminally inclined in their thinking, but that's all. What I think is the case in folie a deux is that it's simply a meeting of already rotten, violent, unfit for society minds, in this case of two pre-existing highly anti-social social misfits of the worst kind. People who base their identity on stupid tit they found online, get socially rejected for good reason (normal kids smell their inherent unpleasant nuttery and avoid), don't receive proper punishments for the tit they got up to previous to the crime which teaches them that they can and should continue. Perhaps if Scarlett Jenkinson had been run out of society pronto and committed to a secure institution for an indeterminate period when she first tried to poison Brianna, instead of simply moving schools, well, Brianna would likely still be alive and you'd never have heard of Jenkinson. There was a chance to stop this by identifying the rotten apple and treating it as such, but of course we pretend predators are victims if they show their nutbag colours when they're underage, and then proceed to cry about spilled blood all over the park floor later.