Don't think we needed to know their names. As others have said, I'm not really sure what good it does - except for people who might be tangentially connected by a couple of degrees of separation and want to know that it's not a family member who's committed the crime. I've got friends who were kids in Liverpool around the time of the James Bulger murder and there were dozens of families who were worried that the kids who turned out to be Venables and Thompson could have been another pair of kids who hadn't been seen in school for a while. That sort of thing. But apart from that, I think this fuels all sorts of the worst aspects of society. The potential for these two being seen as martyrs by sicko transphobes who fancy a copycat killing at some point in the future, plus the potential for their families to be targeted for "giving birth to murderers" (or what have you), as if any normal person can spot the signs. I'm generally with Noam Chomsky on this - deny them the notoriety, deny them the oxygen of press attention and hero worship from other cunts out there. These two are clearly very disturbed individuals who should have just stayed as "individuals" to the wider public. For what it's worth, if you'd gone on any Facebook pages connected to Warrington or Culceth within the last 10 months you'd know who the killers were anyway because word travels and that's that, but I can't really find a logical reason for this. It's all very emotive, which is fair enough, but the law exists to take emotion out of such cases.