In order to ease the mood, discuss the digression: Will these gangsters be caught by the police?

Christian 2021-12-14 08:01:17

Most of the discussion in this film revolves around the good and evil of human nature, self-protection, social security, etc., and there are many opinions.
What I want to discuss is: Will these bad guys be caught by the police in the end? How likely is it?

First of all, as a British film, it also shows the British environment, so the default is the case that happened in the UK.

In a country with a well-developed society like the United Kingdom, you can trust the judiciary, including the police and the courts, who can usually do their due diligence. The level of the police is also very high, not to mention the technical strength.

So, how likely is it that this case will be discovered and the murderer will be sanctioned?


The victim is a couple, because the couple is planning to get married, which means that they belong to a relatively stable group in society and are unlikely to run away from home or wander at will; not going to work after the weekend will cause concerns in the department. For example, the kindergarten where the girl is located will definitely ask why she doesn’t go to work, and friends can’t contact them, etc., and she will report the crime in a few days. The police will pay attention to it and start a search. This is very likely.

Once you start searching, it should be easy to find their whereabouts. At least the cameras in the UK are well-known all over the world, until the small towns are not a problem to track down, and then they enter the wild environment, the cameras are gone, but it is easy to think Their weekend holiday location is likely to be the secluded small lake.
The missing two people probably mean a serious criminal case, which should be taken seriously by the police, including media reports. Therefore, the search in the lake area will be very careful, and many traces should be found to prove that the two have been there. Police dogs can even quickly determine the route and range of their activities.
Once it is determined that the two have disappeared by the lake, the next step of investigation is relatively easy.

Although the parents of those children are from the town, it is impossible for all the people in the town to be their accomplices. After all, most of the innocents are innocent. For German families, other people in the town are likely to be very disgusted, and it would be good for others to send them to prison.
There is only one exception: there are really only these family members in the town, all involved in this crime, that is to say, the whole town commits a crime. At this time, it will be much more difficult for the police to solve the case. But this possibility is very small.
In addition, three or four gangsters in the town died. The boy who was beaten by the worst boss beside the street sign didn’t know if he was beaten to death. Seeing the crazy appearance of the beating, maybe he would be killed. If this young man is alive if he is not killed, he is likely to be the easiest person to leak secrets to the police, thus greatly increasing the possibility of solving the case.
This group of young criminals must be known to many people in the local area, including the police, who should have known them for a long time. As the first suspects, they will inevitably be questioned and investigated in detail by the police, regardless of whether the parents can completely cover up the traces of the murder.
At the same time, the father of the worst gangster should be a released prisoner. Before he beat another teenager, he yelled "Do you know what a prison looks like? Does your father know what a prison looks like". To such a person, the police will certainly not let it go.
The surviving criminals, including their parents, were questioned by the police one by one. Even if they did not admit it, they would leave a lot of information that the police suspected. After all, there were too many people involved in this case, especially in the bathroom murder. More than one person is on the scene. They belong to different families, and it is difficult to conceal this kind of public murder case for a long time.
The gangsters killed 3 to 4 people, which is also a problem that cannot be concealed. Of course, family members will deduce that they were running away and other excuses, but it just so happened that the disappearance happened at the same time, and it is estimated that the police would not easily believe them. There will be more friends and families in contact. With such a large number of investigation targets, it is even more difficult to conceal the truth.
Once one of the above-mentioned problems is investigated by the police, it is a complete collapse, including the worst crime of the criminal who burned a child to death for no reason.

On the other hand, the gangsters will try to cover up their crimes after killing people. Especially under the leadership of a prisoner who has served his sentence, it is very likely that the car was pulled away and destroyed. The most likely way to destroy the evidence is to sink into the lake. However, many times when driving in the jungle, the countless ruts left behind are difficult to eliminate. A clean car that sank into the lake is also likely to be discovered by the police in a careful search. After all, the police are more familiar with these possibilities.
In addition, the scene of burning people may also be buried and cleaned up, but it is difficult to completely remove the traces. Unless the roots of the big trees are completely planed out and destroyed, there will always be some traces of oil and other traces left by the burning of the human body, which are regarded as important suspicions. At the scene, this will be noticed by the police;
In addition, there are traces of running back and forth, leftovers, blood stains everywhere (such as the wood that pierces the foot), bloody gauze, and so on.
In short, in one day and two nights, many incidents occurred in a large area of ​​the jungle. It is difficult to completely eliminate them, and it is beyond the reach of those few manpower. As long as the police determined that this place was the key to the missing persons case, and detailed investigations, the two victims were killed by multiple people and it is difficult to conceal them.

To sum up, even if the gangster’s family work hard to eliminate the traces of the crime, it is difficult to cover up the crime because there are too many traces and too many people involved. This kind of unplanned sudden case is easier to solve once the key is discovered by the police.

Therefore, I believe that gangsters are very likely to be caught and be punished by law.
Of course, because there is no death penalty in the United Kingdom, and there may be criminals under the age of 16, the verdict may not be satisfactory to everyone; but at least a few adults who directly participated in the murder will be imprisoned for a long time, and other criminals will also be punished accordingly. , The leader is older and may be imprisoned for life.
Most of these people spend the second half of their lives in prison.

Maybe this can make everyone feel better.


The above is my personal speculation, please correct me.

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