Friday - October 10, 2008

Convicted paedophile found strangled and dumped in woods.  (no great loss and good!)

Nice to start the morning with a good story of justice done.
You don’t generally find “Justice” in the criminal system anymore. I think child abuse is about the lowest form of behavior imaginable.
I’ve nothing else to add except, kudos, bravo to whoever finally brought justice about. 

Convicted paedophile found strangled and dumped in woods after suspected vigilante attack

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 11:05 AM on 10th October 2008

A convicted paedophile has been found strangled and dumped in remote woodland.

Gordon Boon, 73, may have been murdered by a vigilante in revenge for his crimes while he was on licence from prison, police fear.

The former cider factory worker was found with his body partly covered by old fencing panels in an area used by fly-tippers.
Crime scene

Crime scene: Officers search the woodland in Norfolk where the body of convicted paedophile Gordon Boon was found

Boon, who lived in Norwich, had blood around his nose and mouth and one of his shoes and a sock was missing.

He was jailed for six years in December 2001 for indecent assaults on a girl aged eight and two others aged 13. 
The married pensioner plied one girl with alcohol and played strip poker with her.
He took snaps of the youngster when she was naked and sexually abused her.

Boon admitted indecent assault and two serious sex offences against the youngster, two assaults on the second girl and one on the third.

As well as being jailed, he was placed on the sex offenders register for life and ordered to serve an extended licence of five years on his release.

Judge Paul Downes told him that he had ‘failed to accept’ responsibility for his actions. 

Boon’s body was discovered by walkers in Great Witchingham, just yards from the Norfolk headquarters of turkey tycoon Bernard Matthews.

Detectives at first looked into the possibility that the victim could have been a worker at the poultry factory before realising the dead man was Boon.

It is believed that Boon’s son alerted police last Saturday after he failed to meet him for a drink.

Det Chief Insp Steve Strong of Norfolk Police said: ‘The investigation into the death continues and officers are following up a number of lines of inquiry.

‘We would appeal for anyone that may have seen anything suspicious in the Rabbit Lane and Porters Lane areas of Great Witchingham to come forward with information that might prove useful to our investigation. 

‘We are also very keen to trace the final movements of Mr Boon and would like to hear from anyone that may have seen him since October 2.’

A former neighbour of Boon in Attleborough who did not want to be named, said: ‘He lived here with his wife and their children.

‘I used to say hello to him and he was always friendly. I believe he worked at Gaymer’s cider making business in Attleborough, but that is closed now.

‘He used to drink at The Cock pub in Attleborough and he would take part in their fund-raising for old people’s homes.’

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   Wednesday - October 08, 2008

POLICE PROTECT CITIZENS BY ARRESTING CITIZENS WHO CHOP DOWN TREES USED BY THUGS. HUH?

Just another example of (one of many) when a law abiding citizen has had too much.
Guy kills trees,,, guy gets arrested.

Bet the punks are laughing.

Resident who chopped down trees used by yobs to hide from CCTV camera is arrested and charged with criminal damage

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 4:30 PM on 08th October 2008

A public spirited resident chopped down two trees to stop yobs sheltering behind them - and was promptly arrested by police.

Keith Best, 42, took the law into his own hands because the trees were obscuring the view of a crucial CCTV camera.

He acted because louts and vandals have been making life hell for fed-up families in his street - and they were not being captured red-handed on film. 

Furious Mr Best, who has lived in the street for 20 years, decided enough was enough and cut down the two trees in a bid to stop the trouble.

But he was shocked to be confronted by four police officers at his front door after he’d acted for the good of the neighbourhood in Dagenham, Essex, .

‘I thought they were knocking the door in,’ said Mr Best. ‘I opened it and there were four police officers standing there.

‘I let them in as I had nothing to hide. One of the officers said ‘Did you cut a couple of trees down?’ and I said, ‘yes, I did’.

‘He said, ‘I’m arresting you for criminal damage’ and read me my rights. I near enough fell through the floor.

“They said I could pay an £80 penalty notice or they would take it to court. I said, ‘fair enough, I’ll take it to court’.’

Mr Best said the yobs had turned his once peaceful neighbourhood into a war zone and had assaulted a pensioner and two young people.

‘People don’t feel safe sitting in their own back gardens,’ he said.

‘People have had bottles thrown at their cars, others have had abuse shouted at them.

‘One boy was beaten up and another stabbed. There are a lot of older people who are afraid even to open their doors.’

He said when people phoned the police they were routinely told a response unit would be sent but it never turned up. Complaints to the local council and the Safer Neighbourhood Team had also done little to help, he said.

Mr Best said that about a month before he chopped down the trees which had been obscuring the cameras for three years he phoned Barking and Dagenham Council and asked them to take them down but nothing was done.

He said: ‘The trees are a meeting point for the youths - we get between a dozen and 25 of them.

‘It is where they drink and take drugs - we have actually found used syringes down there. They use it as a toilet and we have even seen them having sex around there.

‘Up until three weeks ago it was pretty much every night.

‘I went out there on September 6 at about 11am, in full view of everyone, I wasn’t hiding anything, and cut them down.

‘The council had done nothing to make things better for us, so the residents had had enough.

‘They couldn’t be bothered to get off their backsides to protect us and our property, or even their own property, so I decided to do something. The residents said, ‘good for you’.’

Mr Best has been given 21 days to pay the fine but has decided to make a stand and force the issue to court. He and his neighbours are lobbying their Safer Neighbourhood Team and council for better lighting and fencing and more police patrols at night.

‘I was only trying to make the situation better for those living in the area and for those who use the community hall,’ he said.

His neighbour Julie Reynolds, 37, a child minder and mother of two teenage sons, said the residents backed Mr Best and were disgusted with his treatment.

She said: ‘It is utterly ridiculous. He’s trying to help the council and the neighbours - these youths have been causing chaos.

‘He’s the only one who’s doing anything to help. No one wants to help so he took it into his own hands.

‘Now he’s been arrested and fined, it’s just ludicrous.

‘The kids are getting away with criminal damage, aggravating everybody and causing a nuisance. All Keith has done is cut trees down to make way for the CCTV.

‘He has been punished and the kids are getting away scot free.

‘We call the police and it takes them three or four hours to get here and it’s too late. But they send four officers to arrest Keith.

‘I think he did the right thing and I think the way he has been treated is disgusting.’

Fanshawe Community Hall chair Tracey Benson said the vandals had badly damaged the wall at the back of the building, hacking at it with a scaffolding pole.

She said: “They keep coming back and making it worse. It’s a mess. We’ve had a lot of graffiti as well.”

Other buildings in the area have also been targeted, including an NHS clinic which had water pipes ripped from its walls and a shop where cardboard boxes stored outside were set light.

Mr Best added that since the trees had been cut down there has been no more vandalism or new graffiti on the community hall.

PC Anthony Roll of the Met’s Safer Neighbourhood Team said they would tackle the problems.

He said: ‘We are aware of the campaign. Teams have got on top of the problems in other wards and we are confident we will get on top of the problems in this ward as well.’

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   Saturday - October 04, 2008

bye bye OJ

How fitting. I really don’t care if this was a sting or even if the charges were trumped up. But they weren’t. This was OJ Simpson being the violent thug that he really is. This is the important part:

The verdicts came 13 years to the day that a Los Angeles, California, jury acquitted Simpson of two murders.

Deputies then handcuffed Simpson and led him from the courtroom.

Simpson, 61, faces the possibility of spending the rest of his life in prison for these convictions. Clark County District Judge Jackie Glass set sentencing for December 5.

Kidnapping, armed robbery, conspiracy, assault with a deadly weapon. Guilty on all 12 counts. And none of this would have ever happened if the jury back in 1995 wasn’t a bunch of racist leftitsts.

   Friday - October 03, 2008

Council tells allotment holders NOT to lock sheds in case thieves wreck them during break-in

I guess it makes sense to Moonbats.  What next?  Leave your front door open like it’s 1949 again? 

Council tells allotment holders NOT to lock sheds in case thieves wreck them during break-in

By Daily Mail Reporter

Allotment holders are being urged not to lock their sheds - in case burglars damage them while breaking in.

They have been warned that padlocks force robbers to smash their way through doors and windows, damaging the buildings in the process.

Bristol City Council is advising allotment holders not to leave expensive equipment where it might be targeted - and residents with only minor items such as tools should consider leaving their sheds unlocked.

Shocked: Allotment holders Colin White, Terry Nichols and Ted Morse received letters from Bristol City Council, urging them not to padlock their sheds

The council has issued a letter to one site of allotment holders which reads: ‘Don’t padlock your shed, it can save the shed being damaged if someone does try to get into it. If there is a break-in, always inform the police.’

But gardeners at Bifield Allotments, in the Stockwood area of the city, say the measure will leave their property unprotected.

Pensioner Terry Nichols, 71, who has rented a plot at the site for more than 25 years, said: ‘It beggars belief that the council are telling us to leave our sheds wide open.

‘Everyone who has an allotment has been sent a letter. I’ve never read anything so ridiculous in all my life.

‘Imagine what the response would be if they told council tenants to leave their houses unlocked to stop them getting damaged during a burglary.’

Police said gardeners should ignore the council’s advice.

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   Thursday - October 02, 2008

Shop staff fight off Samurai attacker with a broom.  (video and commentary)

I’m sorry they didn’t cripple or kill the creep, because you just know in three years time he’s gonna be out and doing the same thing. Maybe next time he’ll nail an easier target.
Animals like this that are caught right at the time and where there is certainly no mistake and no question as to what they were up to, should be immediately shot by the police. 

This store owner got very lucky. This Time. 

Shop staff used a broom to fight off a Samurai sword wielding robber and locked him in a store cupboard to until the police arrived.


By Richard Savill
Last Updated: 9:48PM BST 01 Oct 2008

Andrew Speed, 18, a drug addict, had not expected such spirited resistance at the Londis store in Southmead, Bristol.

Jailing Speed for three-and-a-half years at Bristol Crown Court, Judge David Ticehurst said the self-defence of the staff was ‘entirely reasonable’ given the terrifying circumstances.

Speed even begged officers to arrest him quickly to spare him from the family’s retaliation, the court heard.

He had burst in and leapt on to the counter before lunging at Rameshkumar Rasiah, the shop assistant, thrusting the 18-inch blade at him.

The teenager threatened: “I am going to stab you; I am going to kill you.”

But Mr Rasiah, 31, who only recently arrived in Britain from Sri Lanka, grabbed him and the sword and called for reinforcements.

Mr Rasiah’s sister, Suragini Jeyanthan, 28, and her husband, Nagaratnam Jeyanthan, 29, who were upstairs, ran to his aid armed with a broom and a metal pipe.

The three shop staff grappled with the robber for two minutes and eventually bundled him into the store cupboard, and locked him inside.

When he was eventually escorted from the shop by police he urged them to protect him, pleading: “Please, keep them away from me, I will not play up, get me out of here.”

Speed, of Southmead, Bristol, was sentenced to three-and-a-half years’ youth detention at Bristol Crown Court on Tuesday. The court heard he went to the shop to try to get money for drugs.

Mr Rasiah, who suffered cuts and bruises to his palm and elbow, said the robber had “picked on the wrong shopkeeper”.

“I was absolutely terrified but adrenaline took over and I knew I had to stop him from stealing anything,” he said. “I was not backing down because I knew I had to protect the shop for my boss.”

The raid happened at a Londis convenience store run by Mr Jeyanthan in Southmead, at 5.30am on June 9, shortly after Mr Rasiah had opened up.

The shop’s CCTV system caught the teenager, whose face was hidden by a scarf, as he walked in and threatened Mr Rasiah with the blade.

Mr Jeyanthan, who has a five-month old daughter, said outside court, “We don’t feel like heroes; we were protecting ourselves and our shop.”

He added: “This was the first knife we’ve seen in four years here and I was shocked.

“I felt like closing the shop for good but now I think we will be staying because I feel we have the support of the community.”

Speed admitted assault with intent to rob and possession of an offensive weapon.

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   Wednesday - October 01, 2008

Wake me up I must be dreaming

Should Congress Be ‘Perp-Walked’?

By INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Tuesday, September 30, 2008 4:20 PM PT

Justice: A federal grand jury in New York is probing the accounting shenanigans at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. It’s about time, and we hope it doesn’t end there.

Remember the early 2000s, when companies such as WorldCom, Enron, Tyco and Xerox suddenly and spectacularly were revealed to have been cooking their books?

Remember the glee expressed by Washington politicians, especially Democrats, as they watched CEOs and their underlings get perp-walked out of their buildings and into federal custody?

Enron became the poster child for corporate misdeeds. In the accounting crisis of 2002, CEO Ken Lay was one of the most loathed human beings on Earth. And no, that’s not an exaggeration.

we now have an opportunity, thanks to the New York grand jury, to probe perhaps the greatest financial crime ever — one that dwarfs Enron in size and scope.

Fannie’s and Freddie’s top executives, almost all with deep ties to the Democratic Party? Did they get perp-walked to prison like WorldCom’s Bernie Ebbers, Tyco’s Dennis Koslowski, Adelphia’s John Rigas, ImClone’s Sam Waksal, or any of the others who did time for corporate misdeeds in the early 2000s?

No. Jim Johnson, former Walter Mondale aide, became head of Barack Obama’s vice presidential search committee. Franklin Raines, who headed Fannie from 1998 to 2004, the years of its worst excesses, pocketed nearly $100 million in pay and bonuses from Fannie. He, too, became an adviser to Obama.

Other Fannie-Freddie alumni did equally well. Rep. Rahm Emanuel has been front and center in crafting a new rescue bill. Ex-Clinton Justice official Jamie Gorelick careens from career catastrophe to catastrophe, and still gets top jobs. It pays to have ties.

Meanwhile, as previously documented, Rep. Barney Frank and Sen. Chris Dodd repeatedly thwarted reforms. Yet today they stand front-and-center as Democrats try to “fix” a problem they created.

As such, any investigation into Fannie and Freddie must include Congress, both current and past.

There’s lots of evidence that the two mortgage giants had become little more than taxpayer-guaranteed front companies for Democrats, who used them to reward supporters with cheap loans and to provide jobs for out-of-work politicians.

(hornswaggled from Rodger, The Real King of France)

Also at IBD today:

I think Mischa’s gonna need a bigger tree!

And on that note, I’m taking my poor tired feets to bed.

   Tuesday - September 23, 2008

‘Many feared dead’ at school shooting in Finland.  (just came through. More later)

Always a great surprise that this sort of thing happens in a country like Finland.
A very ill world.

‘Many feared dead’ at school shooting in Finland
Many people are feared dead after a gunman opened fire at a school in Finland, police said.

Last Updated: 10:13AM BST 23 Sep 2008

Witnesses reported hearing numerous shots, raising fears that many people had been injured at the vocational school in the town of Kauhajoki, 120 miles from Helsinki in northwest Finland.

Police said casualties were likely but gave no confirmation on numbers, national broadcaster YLE said on its website.

The shooter is believed to be in the building still, YLE said.

One year ago a gunman killed six students, the school’s headmistress and a nurse and injured 10 in a school shooting in in Tuusula, 30 miles north of Helsinki, in southern Finland. The gunman then turned the gun on himself and later died from his wounds in hospital.

The gunman, who had posted footage foreshadowing the November 2007 massacre on video-sharing website YouTube, was a student at the school.

In the video, Pekka-Eric Auvinen, 18, described himself as a “social Darwinist” who would “eliminate all who I see unfit”.

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   Sunday - September 21, 2008

HOW FREE IS ANY SOCIETY THAT MUST LIVE WITH THIS?  MY GUESS IS NOT MUCH.

Mere illegal possession of a knife is not counted in the totals; if it was, the figures would be much higher .

I was looking for something else when I ran across this.
So it raises a question re. guns.

If guns were as easy to get here as they are in the states, might the violent crime figures be even higher as the scum who do these things would think nothing of randomly firing on whim.  Or into crowds. And keep in mind the terrorist threat here.  Or maybe the violence is of a different yet same nature as home (USA). Hard to explain different but same.

Brits and others on this side see us as a violent prone society.  I suppose the movies and TV provide gist for that mill as violence in both, (in the extreme) has become .... ‘entertainment?’ But what I have seen here over the last four and counting years is very far from an orderly society.

Knife crime worse than thought, new figures show
The true scale of the knife epidemic is much worse than Government statistics show, a Sunday Telegraph investigation has found.

By Ben Leach
Last Updated: 1:15AM BST 21 Sep 2008

Police figures released under the Freedom of Information Act reveal that forces in England and Wales are on course to record a total of 38,000 serious knife crimes this year – more than 100 a day.

The figure is at least two-thirds higher than last year’s total of 22,151 offences, announced by the Home Office in July when it unveiled its first annual count of knife crimes.

The sharp rise has come about because ministers have changed the counting rules, in response to complaints that key categories of crime were excluded from last year’s total.

As a result, this year’s statistics will not be directly comparable with last year’s. Critics said this defeated the purpose of introducing the knife crime count, which was intended to allow police to monitor year-on-year trends.

Ian Johnston, president of the Police Superintendents’ Association, said: “Knife crime is a major challenge for the police service.

“In order to address this challenge we need to have credible and meaningful statistics relating to the number of offences where a knife has been used.

“It is of serious concern that the count introduced by the Home Office to record year-on-year changes has been changed after one year, and it questions whether ministers consulted widely enough before introducing the categories.”

The Sunday Telegraph has obtained data from 29 of the 43 police forces, covering more than half the population. Across those force areas, the knife crime count from April to June—the first three-month period under the new counting rules—was 71 per cent higher than the average quarterly total in the previous year.

Allowing for forces that did not provide figures, this year’s nationwide total is on course to rise by around 15,000 offences.

The reason for the increase is that knife offences categorised as actual bodily harm, rape, sexual assault or threats to kill, which were all excluded from last year’s knife crime count, are all included this year.

Cases of wounding, grievous bodily harm and knifepoint robbery, which made up the bulk of last year’s figures, will continue to be included this year. Mere illegal possession of a knife is not counted in the totals; if it was, the figures would be much higher.

The figures published in July showed that England’s big urban areas—London, Manchester, the West Midlands, West Yorkshire and Merseyside—suffer most from knife crime. However, there were also hundreds of offences comitted in shire force areas including Devon and Cornwall, Avon and Somerset, Hampshire, Suffolk, Humberside, Staffordshire, Cheshire and Northumbria.

Until last year, police counted crimes by the offence - such as assault, robbery or burglary - rather than by the kind of weapon used. In recent years, annual totals have included around 100,000 robberies, 20,000 serious woundings and 800 murders.

A leaked Scotland Yard memo this month revealed that there are “serious concerns” among officers about changes to recording practices for knife crime, gun crime and GBH, which could lead to increases in the published headline figures for all three crime categories.

A Home Office spokesman said: “We have made it clear that tackling knife crime is a top priority and is not just about statistics.

“We are particularly concerned about young people carrying knives and the age of victims and offenders, and we want to make sure we get a full and accurate picture of what is happening to improve our understanding about crime on our streets.”

Dominic Grieve, the shadow home secretary, said it was alarming that the Government was underestimating the scale of knife crime.

He said: “Knife crime is a scourge that is harming and all too often destroying young lives up and down the country. You cannot begin to combat a problem if you cannot even measure it accurately.”

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   Saturday - September 20, 2008

Watchdog criticises police chief for sending officers to every crime. (we by gosh can’t have that)

I guess I missed something again. I always seem to miss something right under my nose.

I just don’t get it.  OK, I understand financial concern.  (of course the gument has 20 or so billion for 2012 Olympics)
I kinda thought it was important if not a matter of course, to have cops at the scene. Perhaps some crimes don’t require an officer.
Could that be so? 

Watchdog criticises police chief for sending officers to every crime.

A police chief has been criticised by a government watchdog for sending officers out to every crime.

By Nick Allen
Last Updated: 10:40PM BST 19 Sep 2008

Essex chief constable Roger Baker was censured for his conscientious approach to crime fighting because it was said to put an unnecessary strain on police resources.

The bizarre rebuke came in a report by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary which said Mr Baker’s insistence on sending officers to see every victim of a crime, and taking a statement, took up too much time.

The report said: “While attending every crime is a highly effective method of engagement, it is felt by a number of staff interviewed that taking a statement at each crime is not always necessary and can be time-consuming.”

Mr Baker defended his methods which he believes are what the public want.

Sending an officer to every crime is part of increasing the visibility of officers and making them more accessible to the public.

Mr Baker said: “We will continue with our policing style which includes attending all crime, increasing police visibility, opening more police stations, tackling crime robustly and bringing offenders to justice.

“The public are our biggest partner and we will continue to listen to them and work with them to provide the service they ask for.”

Local politicians threw their weight behind the Essex chief constable and said a visit from police was the least a tax-paying victim of crime could expect.

John Baron, the Conservative MP for Billericay, said: “What else are we paying for? We want reassurance from the police that they are dealing with criminals and doing their best to fight crime.

“I hear too many complaints from constituents that they do not hear from police when reporting a crime.

“What Roger Baker introduced was a breath of fresh air and for civil service bureaucrats to criticise it is very wrong.”

Bob Spink, the UKIP MP for Castle Point, said: “This shows how out of touch Westminster is with real people. I very warmly congratulate Roger Baker on his policy, which is bearing fruit.”

Mr Baker joined the Essex force in 2005 and has introducing policies to bolster front line policing, focusing on making officers a more visible presence on the streets and targeting low-level crime like vandalism and criminal damage. On his first day in the job he demanded that his officers make 600 extra arrests within a week

He recently unveiled plans to get an extra 110 officers on the streets by March and 600 over the next five years.

The Essex chief constable has been a thorn in the side of the Home Office, criticising the lack of officers on the streets and the fact that victims are given crime numbers instead of being visited personally.

He recently warned that beat officers could disappear within a decade as traditional police constables are replaced by police community support officers (PCSOs) who do not have powers to arrest and are restricted to handing out fines for minor misdemeanours.

Earlier this month it emerged that Mr Baker has also ordered his beat officers to remove their sunglasses when they make contact with the public because they can intimidate people.

The sunglasses ban is based on a similar theory to that employed by British armed forces as they tried to win the “hearts and minds” of Iraqi civilians after the 2003 invasion.

An Essex Police spokesman said: “We aim to reduce crime and the fear of crime and bring offenders to justice.”

In the past two years the style of policing in Essex had contributed to there being 13,000 fewer victims of crime, the spokesman said.

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   Thursday - September 18, 2008

No pole, just goat

Bicyclist arrested while carrying stolen goat



Ok, this sounds like a story from some turd world country on a slow news day. No. Happened right here in the USA in wonderful wacky Massachusetts!

SEEKONK, Mass. (WPRI) - It’s a crime you don’t hear about every day. A Rhode Island man is accused of stealing a goat from a Seekonk family, all to settle a bad debt.

According to officers, Tania DaSilva saw 50-year-old Anthony Pereira Sunday morning riding away from her family’s Elm St. home on a bicycle. She said he was also carrying a goat he had taken from their barn.

When police stopped Pereira a short time later, they said he was riding his bicycle and was still carrying the goat.

Pereira told police he stopped by the home because DaSilva’s father, Alberto, owed him money for work he had done on the property. However, when no one answered the door, he decided to take the goat instead.

Police arrested Pereira on three warrants and charged him with breaking and entering for a misdemeanor and larceny over $250.

Pereira was arraigned Monday at Taunton District Court. The case has been continued to Oct. 14.

The goat was returned to the DaSilva family unharmed.

Taxpayers foot the £70 bill for a cab to avoid breach of violent prisoner’s ‘human rights’ .

Right. By all means lets make absolutely sure that “violent” criminals have THEIR rights protected.  Lets even pretend they are actually human to begin with.

There are a couple more crime stories including another (yawn) killing of an old lady and the hacking to death of two sisters, but .... I’m not posting any more crime stuff today. Two is quite enough.
Oh and just so ya know, I really do not go looking for these sort of stories.  They are impossible to avoid however.

Yeah ‘T’ this is all taking place right here in England.  Land of Hope and Glory ....  Brits have the political leftards to thank and the entire PC crowd that runs riot here. OK, riot the wrong word maybe. But they are very much in control.

btw ... in a late development with regard to my previous story about the stabbing of that young lady, look at this.
Just as predicted.

A mental health NHS trust confirmed that Reid-Wentworth had been under its care. 

Samuel Reid-Wentworth has been accused of stabbing Lucy Yates in a supermarket

A spokesman said: ‘Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust was very shocked to hear of this terrible incident and our thoughts are with the young victim and her family.

(We hear this from these idiots all of the time. Words, just meaningless words. Our thoughts are with the victim. Uh huh. Sure they are. You fraken jerks are MAKING the victims. I hope you become victims of the creeps you serve so well. )

‘We can confirm that the person who has been arrested is known to our services.

he ‘has a history of being diagnosed as a schizophrenic’.

Well, as I said in my last post, shoot the damn shrinks and a large part of the problem will go away. And rid society of these worthless inhuman species.

Taxpayers foot the £70 bill for a cab to avoid breach of violent prisoner’s ‘human rights’

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 1:03 PM on 18th September 2008

Taxpayers will have to pick up the bill for up to £70 for a taxi so a defendant could be properly dressed for his court hearing and avoid a ‘breach of his human rights’.

Prison staff at HMP Woodhill, near Milton Keynes, sent Barry McGlone, 20, to Northampton Crown Court wearing the high-visibility ‘escape suit’.

Charged with escaping, he was made to wear the harlequin ‘clown suit’, reserved for offenders who have a history of escape.  But he was provided with no alternative clothing.

When McGlone did arrive at court, GSL security staff would not allow him off the prison van wearing the suit, as it amounted to ‘a breach of his human rights’ and ‘broke the rules’.

Staff at HMP Woodhill breached defendant Barry McGlone’s human rights by sending him to court in a high visibility ‘clown suit’. Taxpayers were forced to foot a £70 taxi bill to deliver more suitable attire to Mr McGlone.

The costly hearing was about to be adjourned to another day when his barrister, Steven Evans, asked that, if a change of clothes could be provided, the hearing might continue.

So a taxi was called and travelled to HMP Woodhill to collect clothes - a grey singlet and jeans - so McGlone could be allowed off the prison bus and into the building and courtroom.

Michael Ellis, a Northampton-based barrister, said: ‘Who makes up these extraordinary rules? ‘It’s an outrageous abuse of strained public funds.

‘It would have been cheaper for someone to have gone to Primark to buy his clothes, rather than go to Milton Keynes by taxi and pick them up.

‘I would have done it myself, had someone asked.’

Mr Evans told Judge Thomas Corrie: ‘There have been difficulties this morning, as the defendant was not allowed off the bus because he was wearing the clown suit reserved for anybody who has a charge of escape on their record.

‘I was told he was going to be returned to prison, as it was a breach of his human rights to be seen in public in that suit and a breach of the rules, but I’m not sure what rules.

‘His clothes were put in a taxi and driven over here, so they are not of his choosing and he wants to apologise for his attire.’

Judge Corrie said: ‘Common sense usually prevails. The real problem is whether there was to be a trial and it may influence a jury. It won’t happen again.’

Speaking after the hearing, Mr Evans said: ‘It’s ironic that clothes which were designed to be seen were not actually seen by the prison authorities.

‘I’m not sure what rules it contravened.’

McGlone, of Occupation Road in Corby, pleaded guilty to escape and assault and was sentenced to a total of eight months’ detention.

McGlone was arrested after assaulting a drinker outside a Northamptonshire pub.

CCTV footage caught him punching John McArthur outside the Village Inn, Corby, on August 17.

At Corby police station, an officer released his handcuffs and let him into the yard for fresh air.

But McGlone jumped on to a garage roof and ran off.

Rebecca Wade, prosecuting, said that several days later McGlone’s father called to say his son, in hospital with a fractured heel and ankle ligament damage from his leap, wanted to hand himself in.

Judge Corrie said: ‘Those who escape from lawful custody, especially when there’s a breach of trust, and the officer was being kind to you, can only result in a custodial sentence.’

Steven Evans, defending McGlone, said: ‘It was an impulsive act and he recognises it was stupid.’

The case carries echoes of a previous debacle when in June, a prison van spent three hours on a 110-mile round trip from Cambridge to convey a prisoner 200 yards across the road .

The journey, from Northampton Crown Court to the town’s Magistrates’ Court across Upper Mounts, would have taken less than a minute by foot.

A police spokesman said at the time: ‘It would be inappropriate for prisoners to walk in a public area while in custody for many reasons, including public safety and the prisoner’s human rights.’

http://tinyurl.com/3r8kh6

Man accused of stabbing woman in supermarket knife attack.  (as posted yesterday)

In broad daylight in a market. It pisses me off on more then one level too.

Why oh why when they HAVE the bastard who did it ..... why does the newspaper have to block his face so the public can’t see the scum?

Oh yeah. I forgot.  His “rights.”

See link below for the full story and photos.  No need for me to post the entire story again here.
“They really need to bring back the rope and the rack.” (quoting Drew)

Hey get this, a few weeks ago this loony tune in a mental hosp. was allowed to watch porn movies.  Guy had a violent record but the shrinks said he was on the mend and when taking meds he would be okay. Uh huh ,,,,

So they let him out.

Within days he’d raped a 14 year old girl.  I guess the docs could only say .... “Whoops.” What needs to be done is, shoot the loonies or hang em if that’s cheaper.  What’s with this meds crap?  They are useless and a drain on the taxpayer. Then .... the same for the shrinks that let em out saying, oh ... my patient is cured. Jerks!  Less shrinks and less lawyers. No wait, make that NO shrinks cause usually they’re crazier then their patients, but I think to a degree we still need some lawyers.  They may be somewhat greedy but they surely aren’t crazy.

There isn’t any Health in “Mental Health.” Wanna bet this creep who did this will end up in a hosp. instead of where he belongs. And in a few years some wanker doctor will declare him cured and ..................write your own caption.

Seeing the poor girl’s blood on the floor of that market and then seeing the blanked out face of the rat who did it, just set me off. Look, it isn’t like oh maybe they have the wrong guy. There were a ton of ppl there. One lady physically pulled the girl out from under the guy.  There isn’t a case here of mistaken identity.  Damn!

Man accused of stabbing woman in supermarket knife attack

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 1:47 PM on 18th September 2008

Samuel Reid-Wentworth has been accused of stabbing Lucy Yates in a supermarket

A man appeared in court today charged with the attempted murder of a young woman following a frenzied knife attack in a seaside supermarket.

Samuel Reid-Wentworth, 21, is alleged to have carried out what police have described as a ‘random and motiveless’ attack.

Today, sources named the victim as 20-year-old Lucy Yates.

Reid-Wentworth is alleged to have carried out the attack at the Somerfield store in Anchor Springs, Littlehampton, West Sussex, just before 4.30pm on Tuesday.

Shoppers and their children watched in horror as the attacker knocked the young woman to the floor in the confectionery aisle then straddled her as he slashed her with a six-inch blade.

http://tinyurl.com/4kf2nh

THIS IS THE YOUNG VICTIM.

   Wednesday - September 17, 2008

Sussex supermarket attack: Woman stabbed 20 times .  In broad daylight. Nobody had a gun.

Not to say that this sort of crazyness hasn’t happened at home in the USA.
But maybe just maybe someone back home might have had the means to help.

This is NOT a safe place. I recall a time when it was safer then the states.

Sussex supermarket attack: Woman stabbed 20 times

A young woman is fighting for her life after being stabbed up to 20 times at a supermarket in a seaside town.

By Richard Edwards, Crime Correspondent
Last Updated: 2:08PM BST 17 Sep 2008

The 20-year-old was holding a shopping basket and standing in an aisle when a man pulled out a knife and repeatedly stabbed her in the neck and chest at a Somerfield store in Littlehampton, West Sussex.

She remains in critical condition after the attack, which happened in broad daylight on Tuesday afternoon. It is unclear whether she knew the man or if it was a random assault.

Witness Bonnie Brown, a 54-year-old grandmother, said that she heard the girl screaming and dragged the victim out from under the attacker as he continued to stab her.

Mrs Brown, said: “I heard a lot of screaming. Everyone stopped what they were doing. I went round the corner and looked down the aisle.

“I saw a man stabbing this young lady. He was stabbing her again and again and again. There was blood everywhere.

“She was screaming and he was screaming at her. She fell to the ground and he got on top of her and carried on stabbing her in the neck and body.

“I just went up to her and grabbed her legs and pulled her away, leaving a trail of blood in the aisle. She needed to be pulled away.

“Everyone was screaming and crying.

“The security guard then jumped on the guy and kept hold of him. Me and some of the other shoppers kept pressure on her wounds. She had wounds all over her body, several on her neck.

“She was conscious but wasn’t saying much. She was just lying in a pool of blood.”

Sussex Police have made an arrest. The man, in his twenties and from nearby Bognor, remains in custody.

Shoppers and staff consoled each other outside the store after the attack.

Mary Linnington, 61, who was with her daughter Carrie, said: “People suddenly started screaming and shouting and the staff were ushering us out the doors.

“It was really busy and there were loads of kids around as the schools had just finished. It was complete bedlam.

“It doesn’t bear thinking about. Everyone is so shaken up. I just hope and pray she will be okay.”

The store was closed last night as forensic investigators carried out inquiries.

A spokesman for Worthing Hospital said the victim received emergency surgery and was transferred overnight to a hospital in Southampton for specialist treatment.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2976054/Sussex-supermarket-attack-Woman-stabbed-20-times.html

   Tuesday - September 16, 2008

A Land Fit for Criminals, A trumpet blast against current dogma.

This is a worthwhile book review and clearly states the current condition of law and disorder in this country.

It is not a very pretty picture but then the ppl here don’t need a book to verify what they know already.

Been here all day or almost all of it.  Just noticed the clock. Not the one on the wall. The internal one that says time to quit for the night.
So, that’s all for today, Tuesday, 16 Sept.

Cheers All ...

A trumpet blast against current dogma

Leo McKinstry reviews A Land Fit for Criminals by David Fraser.

For decades, policy on crime has been dominated by an anti-punishment ethos, which holds that offenders are really victims of deprivation and therefore need support instead of incarceration.

This is now the ideology that prevails in social work, the probation service and much of the judiciary, with the result that less than one per cent of all crimes in Britain result in a custodial sentence. Indeed, the bureaucracy of the state often seems more interested in protecting the criminal classes than the public.

David Fraser’s excellent book is a trumpet blast against this cowardly, defeatist approach. As a former probation officer himself, with 34 years of experience in dealing with offenders, he is able to provide an insider’s account of the current state of our criminal justice system, where thugs, burglars, muggers, even rapists are taught that they have little to fear from the courts. In a series of passionately argued chapters, full of compelling statistics and striking examples, he reveals how far the civic institutions of Britain have surrendered to criminality.

Fraser’s central theme is that, contrary to all the liberal propaganda, prison is the only effective method of dealing with criminals. With refreshing straightforwardness, so different from the complex jargon favoured by left-wing criminologists, he asserts that ‘Prisons can never fail because whilst an offender is locked up he cannot commit any more offences.’ In contrast, every kind of scheme to keep offenders out of jail, such as community sentences or action-plan orders, has only succeeded in encouraging more crime.

Fraser is particularly scathing about one fashionable new theory from the sociological madhouse: so-called ‘restorative justice’, where the victim of crime is encouraged to seek an apology from the perpetrator in a face-to-face meeting. Fraser rightly argues that it is outrageous to pressurise a victim into taking on some of the responsibility for an offender’s rehabilitation. Nor is there any evidence that this approach has had the slightest effect on rates of re-offending.

This book is a wonderful antidote to the poisonous myths so assiduously promoted by the anti-prison lobby. Fraser demonstrates, for instance, the emptiness of the claim that Britain sends more people to jail than any other European country. In fact, in proportion to our crime rate, we have a far more lenient sentencing policy than most other continental nations, including France, Italy and Spain. In response to wails about over-crowding, he has a refreshingly simple solution: build more prisons. Compared with the overall cost of crime, estimated by the Home Office to be at least £60 billion, the annual price tag of each prison place, at around £37,000, is good value.

Through insights based on his own career, Fraser also exposes the bogus statistics, marketing initiatives and Orwellian newspeak used by the apologists for criminality to assuage the public’s fears about their failing approach. He demonstrates, for instance, that the much-vaunted ‘intensive supervision’ of repeat offenders in the community can in practice amount to little more than one hour per week.

A sense of anger and despair runs throughout the text, mainly on behalf of the public, which has been betrayed by the self-styled experts and policy-makers. Fraser believes that sentencing has been reduced to ‘a farcical game’ and that social theories about deviance have destroyed the ability of society to defend itself.

‘We do not need psychologists to tell us the simple truth that if you reward bad behaviour you will get more of it,’ he writes with typical clarity. Before the Home Secretary Charles Clarke embarks on yet another of his Government’s fatuous exercises in promoting community sentences, he should sit down and read this book. It will teach him more about penal policy than all the research of his own supine, dogma-driven experts.

http://tinyurl.com/59mdp7

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