7 years ago I had seven colours of poo kicked out of me by some young thugs. I almost died and spent 6 days in a neurosurgery ward. The main perpetrator shot himself with a shotgun while surrounded by police a couple of years ago. Let’s hope these young perpetrators get their own just desserts. It is tragic that people can have lives that lead them to such behaviour but there is absolutely no excuse for it. I don’t call for revenge or retribution. There is usually some sort of balancing principle at work in the world, call it Karma if you will.

And this is more from Australia-as clear, one dead soldier might be substituted by a dozen of his murderers:
http://mkwrk2.instablogs.com/entry/should-thugs-serve-in-arm-forces-compulsorily/