In an interview with state television, they not only defended but praised the murder committed by their mother.

There is much talk in England of three boys hosted by the BBC together with their mother Sarah Sands, pleaded guilty in 2014 to having "culpably" killed in the London suburb of Silvertown Michale Pleasted , a 77-year-old pedophile offender who had abused his children in the previous months aged 11 and 12 . He bled to death by stabbing him eight times.

The three young men – Bradley, now 20, the twins Alfie and Reece, 19 – victims of their neighbor's maniac went on TV together with their mother, who was freed in 2018 after serving 4 years in prison, a soft sentence thanks to the recognition by the justice of the extenuating factor of the loss of full self-control.

The terrible news story aroused horror and a stir in the United Kingdom. And today, eight years later, the children's words feed the comments in the newspapers and on social networks.

« Hats off to my mother, she did well and I never deny that I thought so. It didn't stop the nightmares but it gave us a sense of security , we no longer had to walk down the street thinking it would come around the corner,” Bradley began speaking of the murder. An act according to some of revenge, for others of summary justice: «But it made us feel safer», echoed Alfie. Reece has no doubts either: " It was nice to know that he was dead ."

Sarah Sands also spoke of those terrible moments: «He felt no remorse, he told me that my children were lying. Then the whole world froze, I had the knife in my left hand, I remember he tried to grab it and I hit him ».

(Unioneonline/L)