[GEaston]

I'd like to widen the debate here, because it speaks to many of the problems Britain has today. I have better solutions for him.

1) Firstly he's got life inprisonment which means 15 years. My question is why should society pay to keep him alive ? The cost of keeping him alive far far exceeds the benefit to society. It takes 17 tax payers to keep him alive in prison. Tremendous waste of money in my opinion.

2) I actually don't think for this crime he should be executed as that's too good for him. I would use him for chemical testing. Afterall why should monkeys, rabbits and dogs have cosmetics shoved in their eyes to see if they are safe? They are innocent, and you'd get a much more realistic assessment of product risk if Mr Phillpot was used. Society would get some benefit out of him.

3) Aside from his fate, which is both expensive (unaffordable for bankrupt Britain) and far far too lenient, there's the bigger point of his lifestyle choice. How in the world can you have a system where living like this is "ok" or even turned into a celebrity roadshow by idiot TV watchers. It is not acceptable to me that you can choose to live on collective benefits and have kids for the purpose of state handouts. It's shameful that politicians in my country allows this.

Where I live in Singapore there is no welfare state - none. This country isn't bankrupt, has far closer families (you look after your old family members as well as your young) and you rightly don't have a choice to opt out of society and surf on the hard work of everyone else.

Finally this scum would have been executed within 10 days here, no questions, no appeals, no massive ongoing cost and noone would miss him.