Rebecca age 6

The Evening Chronicle reports ...

We want you to sign up and help bring a change in the law so killer joyriders can be jailed for life.

The Evening Chronicle has launched a campaign calling for a change in the law to allow courts to hand out the sentence, rather than the maximum 10 years at present.

The launch follows the death of six-year-old Rebecca Sawyer in Ashington, Northumberland, on New Year's Day after her father's car was hit by joyrider Ian Carr.

Carr was jailed for nine and a half years on January 31 after admitting causing death by dangerous driving and five other motoring offences.

Carr, 27, had previously been banned from driving for life - including one for another joyride killing - and a total of 89 criminal convictions.

The campaign is backed by Rebecca Sawyer's parents, Steven and Sharon, and local MP Denis Murphy.,

We are calling on icNewcastle visitors to sign the online petition to add their weight to the call for change.

The family of Rebecca Sawyer has created a website in memory of the six-year-old.

The tribute has been put together by her mother Sharon and gives a full picture of her daughter's life before she was killed in a hit and run crash.

AH ..

Rebecca died thanks to everyone at the BBC who have for so long promoted and glamourised thuggish uncaring behaviour in our youth by, for example, creating and broadcasting the very popular highly- influential long- running soap opera; Eastenders.

She died thanks to all the so-called child abuse experts working in organisations such as the National Society For The Prevention Of Cruelty To Children who have succeeded in making it virtually impossible for adults, teachers and parents to control and discipline our growing youth and, hence, our young adult males.

She died thanks to all the social workers who have laboured for years to drive fathers out of their homes thus increasing young male delinquency a hundred fold.

These are the people who are really responsible for Rebecca's death - and for the millions of other lesser tragedies that have to be suffered daily by people thanks to their downright politically-corrected stupidity.

Oh look! Another girl dies thanks to people like the folks at the NSPCC ...

... An inquest into a 2-year-old who drowned after she wandered off found that her death was an accident caused by neglect. (NOTE: Link defunct)

Clive Peachy, a bricklayer, had said that he passed a toddler but did not stop, fearing people might think that he was trying to abduct her.

He said: "I kept thinking I should go back. The reason I didn't go back was because I thought people might think I was trying to abduct her.

Anti-Smacking Law UK An unlikely alliance of lawyers, childcare professionals and politicians last night joined forces to condemn as unworkable plans to jail parents who administer anything stronger than a light smack to their children.