Quotes from Stephen Richards

I believe that all sex offenders, and especially those with multiple allegations against them, should be made known to the locality where they live.

As much as Merthyr is a fighting town, these people also have hearts of gold. I worked all over Monmouth, and then the Aberfan disaster happened! That was a very emotional episode in my life. I never want to see anything like that ever again! In my opinion, the tip should have been moved well before the rain got in to it, and the old tip came rolling down the hillside on the school and the walls just caved in!

The same zeal and guts with which you were persistent not to forgive is the same zeal and enthusiasm with which you should be able to open up a new relationship with your partner, loved one or friend, one that is founded on commitment and dedication.

I had not learned anything about Huntley that would have alerted me to what he was. I had no reason, as an 11-year-old girl, to be wary of him. No one said, 'This guy likes to have sex with young girls.

Doubt, fear, and hesitation are enemies of the mind, for a weak will severs our inborn connection with the universe, dampens the faith with which we are able to join our will to it.

With regards pedophilia I have always looked on it as that … pedophilia. I thought that one religion is no different to the other and I am now truthfully beginning to think that.

If you want to be loved, then learn to love back.

Running your own race means embracing your dreams and shifting towards them and not letting anyone discourage you from your goals or dreams. Create your NAPS with this in mind!

My brother Hayden's friendship with James Webber would be the catalyst for a fateful and accidental meeting between me and the future Soham killer Ian Huntley.

I had today so what does tomorrow matter!

Mind power use is neither a religion nor an elaborate program. You have everything within you to succeed: right attitude and right intentions.

When you forgive, you are freed from some of the feelings of disapproval and it can contribute to lessening your negative thoughts.

Whatever you desire, it comes from the universe, and whatever you manifest, be it situations, the right partner, friend, or spouse, the right pet, anything at all, IS the universe, for the universe IS everything.

Although I had committed just about every sort of assault imaginable on people and even the odd one or two against the police, I still had and still do have respect for the old school policeman.

Some people believe they are lucky, and in their belief, become so. Others believe that when good things come to them, it was mere chance, but are grateful, just the same. Either way, it is the expectation of those good things that sets the process of mind power in motion.

When you forgive, you immerse yourself in healing waters.

Another crucial problem was errors made by the Cambridgeshire Police in their use of their 'check system', which allowed Huntley to get a job at Soham Village College.

When you mark where your self-doubt is, then you can begin to conquer it.

Remember, I was only in to fighting; I wasn't a high-ranking underworld figure selling the Crown Jewels! I wasn't the Merthyr Mafia and I had no connections with the goings on of petty criminal matters.

By priming your subconscious mind you are allowing it to run in the background, and that way you are actually sending out positive thoughtforms from your subconscious in the waking state!

If there is something you think you can do well, perfect the action.

He was very cock sure of himself. He came at me and threw a big slow right, but he was so slow that he had telegraphed it to me and I'm ready for it and block it. I put a couple of big jabs on him and he went down like the Titanic, maybe quicker.

If you cannot get a job then make a living for yourself.

He lost a few teeth and wet himself in to the next century. I looked up at his mates and none of them would look me in the face.