One Man's Death That Shook a City Shook ; a Year Ago Tomorrow, Terrorists Beheaded Liverpool Engineer David Charters Recalls How the Terrible Death of Kenneth Bigley Shocked the World

Daily PostOctober 07, 2005

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IF YOU asked them now whether it had done any good, or pleased God or served their cause or helped them win, the masked ones, who picked the severed head of the stranger from the ground, would have to think about the answer for a very long time.

For it would not be easy to tell other people that you cut the head from the neck of a man you didn't know and it achieved nothing at all, absolutely nothing.

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One Man's Death That Shook a City Shook ; a Year Ago Tomorrow, Terrorists Beheaded Liverpool Engineer David Charters Recalls How the Terrible Death of Kenneth Bigley Shocked the World

Of course, much of our human endeavour fails to achieve its purpose. But executions shouldn't be futile, should they?

It will be a year tomorrow since Kenneth Bigley was killed and his death was made into a video, so that the creeps of the night could watch him die on the internet.

But many thousands of people have died in the months in between.

We watch in the cushioned safety of our lounges and, if there has been a particularly bad atroc...

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