Fury at sick advert in Birmingham student newspaper

Feb 12 2009 by Paul Bradley, Birmingham Mail

Among the crockery on sale is a Royal Huntley Cup with a picture of Ian Huntley, who murdered 10-year-old schoolgirl Jessica Chapman and her best friend Holly Wells in Soham, Cambridgeshire, in August 2002.

Their bodies were found two weeks later. School caretaker Huntley, 28, was convicted of both murders in December 2003. His girlfriend Maxine Carr, was acquitted of helping him, but convicted of conspiring to pervert the course of justice.

Serial killers Fred and Rose West are commemorated with a £9.99 biscuit tin. They tortured and killed ten young women and girls at their home in Cromwell Street, Gloucester.

Rose was jailed for life at Winchester Crown Court in 1995 after being convicted of the ten murders. Fred committed suicide in Birmingham’s Winson Green prison on New Year’s Day, 1995, while awaiting trial.

And the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe, is celebrated with a £29.99 porcelain dish.

Above their pictures is written “Only a mother could love ...”

A spokesman for the University of Birmingham, said: “The University of Birmingham does not endorse this newspaper and we have now told them to stop using our logo.”

Mr Bacon, refused to apologise and said: “It is deeply regrettable that people waste their money on the kind of sentimental tat advertised in Sunday newspapers, which our ‘advert’ was clearly lampooning.”