I've just watched a documentary called Paradise Lost; The Robin Hood Hill Murders. It concerns the murders of three primary school age boys in Bible belt America, and the subsequent convictions of three teenagers, based exclusively, from what I ascertained, to be a confession crafted by the police officers and then fed through the mouth of one of the suspects, who is mentally handicapped, and also the fact that these suspects, by wearing black, listening to heavy metal, and generally shunning the expectations held by the community for people their age, provided an easy scapegoat; a place to lay the blame.

Obviously, the film goes into much more depth than I can here and so I'd recommend this be watched, and carefully considered, by anyone who considers themselves, or even thinks they might be considered by others, as being away from the mainstream. In the wake of what's happened in Lancashire recently, theres a certain resonance to this film which makes me upset and indignant; but most of all, resolute.