jon venables, robert thomson, will cornick, how do you think that affects the youngsters as they are ystem, they are going to prison, they will spend much of their life there, but how do you think that will affect them, their mental health and their time behind bars? i health and theirtime behind bars? 1 think that is one of my concerns health and theirtime behind bars? i think that is one of my concerns and we have done a lot of cases and i don't know these particular children, but we as a society are much more conscious about children? mental health nowadays and what that means. we also have really strong child protection laws and we protect children up to the age of 18. we have a recognition of times of turbulence and all of these lead to, when we sentence children, that there is a potential life ahead of them that will be entirely different from who they are now. if we say that there are 15 when this happens, in 35 years' time, which is a lot of people's lifetimes, they will only be 50—year—old people and there is no chance of rehabilitation in any life at all. in general, if you