Boys were 'not particularly shaken' after the horror they had inflicted

THE senior investigating officer Det Supt Mick Mason, who took over at the scene after Sgt Vernon left, painted a disturbing picture of how the two young attackers reacted when they were tracked down and interviewed.
By The Newsroom
Published 22nd Jan 2010, 11:35 BST
Updated 22nd Jan 2010, 18:15 BST

Also speaking as he returned to the scene, Mr Mason said: “They gave a quite clear account of their versions of what took place on that day. They were not particularly shaken by the events, which took us by surprise.

“We were expecting a lot more trauma from the two offenders. But they were quite clear about what they had done and they gave an account. I think they understood what they had done. Whether the gravity sunk in then, I don’t know. Whether it has sunk in with them since, I don’t know.

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“From what I am told they didn’t show any remorse during interview.”

Mr Mason said the two victims had been making a “slow and steady recovery”.

He added: “One of the victims had some quite significant physical injuries and they took quite a few months to heal. Psychologically, obviously it has got to have an impact on you, but they have received a lot of support in relation to getting back to some normality, and I think that now the court case is over that will clearly help.

“They did experience problems and needed support to get them back into mainstream schooling, which is obviously a priority, but you can't go through an incident like this, which is so traumatic and not be affected.

“Its been a very difficult case to deal with, I have children and when you see what happened on that day and you go to see these boys and you meet them, then yes, it’s going to affect everybody.”