If Charles Manson has found love, surely that’s a good thing? | Simon Jenkins

A 26-year-old woman is due to marry the 80-year-old killer – there are precedents, and the motivation is not always cynical

Woman, 26, is to marry mass murderer, Charles Manson, aged 80 and imprisoned for life. How to you react? Do you say, how lovely? Or yuk!

It is hard to imagine a less plausible argument for the restorative qualities of romance than Manson. In prison for the past 45 years for a bout of “hippie” killings, he remains unrepentant and, if last year’s Rolling Stone interview is a...