Should minors get anonymity when convicted of a crime?

14 year old girl found guilty of attempted murder after trying to kill three people at a school has been granted anonymity by the courts who refused to release her name due to her being a minor.
It was a premeditated attack and she has shown zero remorse for her crimes yet by the time she hits 22 she could be out of prison and shacked up with an innocent guy (or girl) and working around vulnerable people without them ever knowing her past

 

I don’t know the law, but surely it will be visible on any DBS check?
I’m not in favour of naming criminals as their families could become targets, I’d rather see them sent to prison for as long as it takes them to be rehabilitated. But in the modern world it doesn’t take long for names to be circling t’interwebs even when they’ve been granted anonymity.

 

And what if her behaviour is partially the result of a deprived and abusive upbringing? Way too complex a question for populist knee-jerk 'one size fits all' opinions.

 

Our prison system doesn't rehabilitate offenders, sadly most come out of prison as more hardened criminals. The government took a step in the right direction by appointing James Timpson as prisons minister but the reforms he will put in place will take years (if not decades) to bear fruit.

 

Am ok with anonymity for the offender as long as their parents or legal guardians are named in lieu.

Who knows, we could see a whole new era of parenting.

 

Then they should stay in prison and never be able to come out “hardened criminals”.
I get that the whole prison system needs to change for this to happen.

 

Above my pay grade, let the powers that be decide, but as a Dad, an Grandparent, yes.