Smarty Gave a Party Clayton - Postscript

For the sake of editorial balance I forced myself to sit through 60 Minutes last night and their piece on the parents of Ginja Balls Weatherston.

It’s fair to say they were completely clueless as to the narcissism of their devil spawn and for that I really felt for them. As a parent you can’t but help sympathise with those that have been let down by their children, especially when as parents they have done everything right by their boy.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing but I couldn’t help but think that there were warning signs early on as to just how unbalanced the Big Brain That Is Clayton was. But still, stabbing someone 214 times is a big step away from crying for three days because you got an A and not an A Plus on a subject at school.

And whilst ol Gingernuts now spends his days trying to avoid finding himself alone with those that would like to run their hands through his lions mane, his poor father, a self employed electrician, spends his days wondering if his customers recognise the family name on the side of the van and put two and two together. Meanwhile his Mum travels across town to use a shopping mall where no one recognises her.

But in perhaps the most telling postscript, ever, the 60 Minutes reporter visited Clayton in jail. In preparation of her visit Mr Slice and Dice had handwritten an 8 page document highlighting his many achievements for her to use in the story.

What a guy.