Tuesday - June 09, 2009

BAN ALL KNIVES OF ANY SIZE AND DESCRIPTION AND ALL SHARP INSTRUMENTS. WILL IT WORK?

Oh right. Sure.

I understand the fear many have and am not without that fear myself.  But who exactly will a ban save?  Some might say that a person who carries a knife might use it under some kind of emotional stress or in the heat of anger, where otherwise death or injury might not be the result.  I understand that argument.
But the honest to gosh fact of the matter is that most citizens don’t carry a knife anyway. And the criminals and madmen who do are not going to be put off because the law says they mustn’t carry a sharp instrument.

I heard about this on the radio the night before last and saw it in the paper yesterday.  It was depressing to be honest and I wasn’t going to post it.
Then I read Drew’s post on the subject of knives and so am posting this now.

All the laws in the world would not have saved this poor young woman and her unborn baby. The miserable bastard who did it, did not even know her.
It says he was a mental patient. Then what the hell was he doing out loose?  How many more innocent people have to die before authorities decide it’s more important to protect their law abiding citizens, then it is the ‘u-man rights’ of some fuckin loony tune who by all that’s right, should be gassed or hung or shot.
People like this have no worth unless used for medical experiments to further medical knowledge. Or else as farms for organs to save other lives but not criminal lives.
I guess I’m just fed up and sick of reading about these things. And trust me, they are frequent. This is NOT a one off thing.

Oh yeah ... I don’t buy the term ex-mental patient. Ain’t no such animal.

Tributes to pregnant woman ‘knifed to death by ex-mental patient’

By Chris Brooke
Last updated at 10:56 AM on 09th June 2009

A heavily pregnant woman was stabbed to death ‘at random’ by a former mental health patient, it emerged last night.

Claire Wilson, 21, was seven months pregnant with her first child, who also died, when a man plunged a knife into her back as she walked to work in broad daylight.

The killer was described as ‘cool as a cucumber’ after the attack.

Asked by a shocked witness: ‘Why have you just stabbed a young girl like that?’, he ‘shrugged his shoulders’ and made no effort to run away.

Mental health services and police are investigating the stabbing after it emerged that the suspect had a history of psychiatric illness.

He was admitted to the Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital in Grimsby last year after making threats to kill and hearing voices. He received three or four weeks of treatment.

Since his release, sources claim he has moved from address to address and has not sought any treatment.

A man who had been following her stabbed her in the back once with a 12-inch black-handled knife. There was reportedly no warning, confrontation or provocation.

Publican Steve Greasby, who was also quickly on the scene, said: ‘Rick said he had walked down the road as cool as a cucumber as though he hadn’t done anything.’

Mr Greasby added that the knife was still in the victim’s back. ‘There was a lot of blood,’ he added. ‘She wasn’t talking but people were comforting her.’

Mr Kennard and Miss Wilson had spent a couple of years in Italy before returning to take up their life in Grimsby.

Dave Stembridge, 18, a colleague of Miss Wilson, called her ‘one of the greatest people anyone would want to meet’.

PHOTOS AND REST OF THE STORY HERE

● The case echoes one in nearby Hull four years ago when pregnant Tina Stevenson, 31, was stabbed in the back by paranoid schizophrenic Benjamin Holiday. He admitted manslaughter and was detained indefinitely at a secure mental hospital. An NHS trust apologised to the family of Miss Stevenson after an independent report criticised his care.

Posted by peiper     on 06/09/2009 at 07:04 AM   
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