Soham Murders Quotes

#1. I had not learned anything about Huntley that would
have alerted me to what he was. I had no reason, as an 11-year-old girl, to be wary of him. No one said, 'This guy likes to have sex with young girls.

Stephen Richards

#2. I had no reason to feel wary of Huntley.There were no warning signs or anything like that. Little did I know there were allegations against Huntley going back as far as August 1995 ...

Stephen Richards

#3. The police were actually adding to my pain and
suffering by pursuing me. If it had been Huntley doing that to me and I had the proof, I would have said, 'Hey, Mr Policeman, Huntley is giving me trouble here,' and then they might have sent him a letter, at the very least.

Stephen Richards

#4. Another crucial problem was errors made by the
Cambridgeshire Police in their use of their 'check
system', which allowed Huntley to get a job at Soham
Village College.

Stephen Richards

#5. Gary Larson: The funniest cartoonist I've ever seen. His two-volume set (The Complete Far Side) should be the textbook in any course taught on how to be funny on the comics page.

Stephan Pastis

#6. What happens is fact, not truth. Truth is what we think about what happens.

Robert McKee

#7. Our mandate is simple: raise up a generation that can openly display the raw power of God

Bill Johnson

#8. My brother Hayden's friendship with James Webber
would be the catalyst for a fateful and accidental
meeting between me and the future Soham killer Ian
Huntley.

Stephen Richards

#9. I used self-injury as a coping mechanism to help me overcome the emotional stress that I was incapable of dealing with in any other way. Self-injury was a means of escape, a way to relieve the numbness, and an expression of the pain within me. Something that the police wouldn't care about.

Stephen Richards

#10. It was like trying to recall a forgotten dream - each time I felt close to remembering where we'd met, the memories slipped away.

Michelle Madow

#11. I believe that all sex offenders, and especially those with multiple allegations against them, should be made known to the locality where they live.

Stephen Richards

#12. We are feeble, weak and impoverished because of our failure to pray. God is restrained in doing because we are restrained by reason of our non-praying. All failures in securing heaven are traceable to lack of prayer or misdirected petition.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#13. Our present stress on growth and productivity is, I believe, intimately related to the decline in rootedness. Faced with loneliness and vulnerability that come with deprivation of a securely encompassing community, we have sought to quell the vulnerability through our possessions.

Paul L Wachtel

#14. By today's standards, if you go by the early morning TV misery shows, my broken home family of mixed parentage siblings was quite normal.

Hailey Giblin