Usman Khan ersticht Saskia Jones und Jack Merritt

Der Londoner Doppelmörder Usman Khan - 8 Jahre vorzeitig aus dem Gefängnis entlassen - war von einer Rehabilitationsinitiative eingeladen worden, über seine Erfahrungen zu berichten. Er kam und ermordete zwei Teilnehmer der Konferenz - Saskia Jones und Jack Merritt. 

"Miss Jones had been attending a prisoner rehabilitation initiative organised by Cambridge University's Learning Together network at Fishmongers' Hall in the City of London, when convicted terrorist, Usman Khan went berserk and began attacking volunteers and delegates with two large knives.

She died alongside fellow Cambridge graduate, Jack Merritt, who was a course co-ordinator and was also deeply committed to helping prisoners' turn their lives around.

Khan, who was released from prison last year after serving eight years of a 16-year sentence for plotting to blow up the London Stock Exchange and other targets, had been invited to attend the event to discuss his experiences.

But he turned on those who had been trying to help him, stabbing Mr Merritt and Miss Jones to death and injuring at least three others."
(https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/12/01/london-bridge-attack-second-victim-former-cambridge-university/)

 Die vielen Wiederholungstäter verursachen riesigen Schaden - vor allem den Opfern. “The evidence seems to point to the conclusion that whenever psychotherapeutic methods have been applied to criminals, they have failed, very much as they have never been shown to work with neurotics in mental hospitals, or in outpatient treatment; surely the time has come when methods more securely based on theory and laboratory evidence should be given a try. … Essentially the specifists argue that human behaviour is learned. Now there is hardly any doubt that this general proposition is true … The conclusion that different criminals need different treatment, in order to change their value-systems and their patterns of conditioning in a direction more in line with social needs, implies radical changes in our attitude to legal matters. The implication has already been discussed that the punishment should fit the criminal, not the crime; this in turn implies the need for a large-scale diagnostic service to determine such factors as the conditionability of the criminal, his emotional reactivity, and his previous reinforcement schedule. It also follows that research facilities would have to be built into the legal system, so that sentencing would become part of an empirical attempt to improve the rate of success in rehabilitating criminals. All this will undoubtedly antagonize many people, to whom the criminal is a wilfully wicked person who needs to be punished, rather than a poorly conditioned person, who needs to learn the appropriate social responses.”

Eysenck, H.J.. Crime and Personality (S.13-200). Taylor and Francis. Kindle-Version.