So, who's the victim?

Don't you get fed up with hearing tearful parents on the news telling us how every murder or road accident victim was " ... kind to animals, the best son/daughter in the whole world, always cheerful, always did the washing up ... ", usually reading from a sheet of paper? I am, nevertheless, completely behind this new idea that the relatives of murder and manslaughter victims being given the right to be represented in court. Just think - if a drug-crazed burglar were to kill your mother-in-law while stealing a couple of quid from her tea caddy you could pop along to the court to thank them profusely and tell them you'd been wanting someone to do it for years, and how she was " ... the worst mother-in-law in the whole world, a miserable trouble-maker who habitually tortured hamsters ... ". Maybe they'd get off with a caution and a free packet of heroin.