Is anyone a bit concerned that they only served 5 years in jail?

Yeah I know what you mean, it doesn't sound punishment enough for such an awful crime. Especially when you think of Ann Perry, who has had a hugely successful career. I've read that they both feel remorse for their actions, rightly so, but it was such a sickening crime. 5 years wasn't sufficient in my opinion, they were young but it was a pre meditated crime, planned by Parker. They deserved much more.

"What you don't like rice? Tell me Michael, how can a billion Chinese people be wrong?"

Yeah, I can't understand they killed a person and they were put free.. Honestly, if you kill someone just to hurt or for your purposes, you should be serving sentence forever. If in that time they were "too kids" , then a few years laters when they became in adults they should have had a new sentence, this time, serving in prison.

It is crazy they are free, living their lives when they killed Honora with cold blood and feeling happy for that..Even the entries of the diary are creepy, how Pauline shows happiness for her mom's future death and how she pre-meditated everything and how Juliet helped her.

My heart stood still when I learnt about Honorah's death, it was terrible and sad and these two killers should be in prison. One of them is even famous as a writer, what a shame..

It is sad how people can commit these crimes and then go onto continue lives as if nothing ever happened.

At first I was perturbed and pretty horrified, but then I realize that the idea underlying sentences and a clean record is that young offenders have more potential for rehabilitation... and it could fairly be said that Parker and Hulme were rehabilitated. Ever since being released after their brief sentences, they've lived as law-abiding, tax-paying, respectable citizens.

So they could fairly be called poster girls for a juvenile justice system that's intended to rehabilitate young offenders.