High-security psychiatric hospital Broadmoor - home to serial killers including the Yorkshire Ripper - has taken delivery of £5,000 worth of Nintendo Wii consoles as "part of the patients' treatment".
The 22 consoles have been installed in the top-security hospital at the taxpayers' expense, predictably sparking outrage among the tabloid newspapers.
A furious Sun source described how Ripper Peter Sutcliffe "played ten pin bowling - watched by Rachel Nickell's murderer Robert Napper".
The source added: "When you think of their crimes and the misery they have caused, you have to ask if it's right for society to pay to entertain them.
"This cash could have been spent improving care in the wider NHS. In the meantime all we hear is laughter as patients play with their new toys."
A Broadmoor spokesman said games such as Wii Fit were installed as part of a strategy to increase exercise.
They deserve nothing. 8x10 cell with a steel bed and maybe a toilet if they're really lucky.
Seems to me that sitting around playing video games all day doesn't sound too much like punishment to me. Human rights nutcases have really dropped the ball when it comes to prisoners.
I'd have a two-tier prison system. Crimes like robbery or fraud would be simple tier one imprisonment like now. But crimes like rape, murder and serious assaults would go to tier two where by violating someone else's human rights you sacrifice your own and get the stonewall treatment. 15 years with nothing to do but think might dissuade them from coming back.
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