Thursday - September 11, 2008

Immigrant mugger in Italy meets lady who is champion Karate (4 times) police officer.

I’m sorry she didn’t break his neck. 

There’s mention in this story of gypsies btw.  You folks at home in USA have no idea what a problem these folks can be. And they are VERY savvy about their rights and what the laws says and how far they can push,push the law.

I can’t see that problem (gypos) in the USA, at least not to the same extent, because back home we have guns.  But you have to figure if those amnasty intl. SOBs defend them, they’re scum.

There’s quite a bit in the news today, especially of interest to Americans.  But this story sidetracked me and I just had to share it.
I’m of the opinion and have been for years, that every female starting at a very early age be trained in self defense.  We live in that sort of world.

Female karate champion defeats mugger
A mugger in Italy got more than he bargained for when the woman he tried to rob turned out to be a national karate champion.

By Nick Squires in Rome

Four times Italian women’s champion Lara Liotta, 29, was on a street in broad daylight in central Rome when the man, a Romanian immigrant of no fixed abode, approached her and asked her for a cigarette.

When she told him she did not smoke he allegedly lunged for her and grabbed her around the neck.

Miss Liotta, who works as prison officer, immediately put her black belt training to good use, delivering two swift jabs to the man’s face which sent him crashing to the ground.

The karate champion was fortunate she could rely on her skills to fight off her attacker because there was no assistance from passersby, despite the attack happening shortly after rush hour on Monday.

“No one helped me or stopped, even though there are lots of people around at that time of the day,” she told an Italian newspaper.

After punching the man to the floor, she ran to the nearby railway station of Termini and alerted police, who caught him before he could run away. He was arrested and detained on charges of assault.

“It could have been much worse. What would have happened if this person, instead of attacking me, a karate champion who knows how to defend herself well, had attacked a young girl?

“I’m lost for words,” Miss Liotta, who competed in the under 55kg weight category, said.

The incident comes at a time when there is mounting concern in Italy that crime levels are rising and that immigrants are largely to blame.

The fear has been fuelled by a number of recent high-profile crimes involving Roma gypsies, around 50,000 of whom have moved to Italy in recent years.

There was outrage in November when the 47-year-old wife of an Italian naval officer died after being savagely beaten and raped by a Romanian migrant in a once well heeled suburb of Rome.

In May a gypsy encampment in Naples was burned to the ground by vigilantes following the arrest of a Roma woman accused of trying to kidnap a child.

The right-wing government of prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has been accused of exploiting concerns over law and order for political gain by targeting gypsies and immigrants in a widespread crackdown on crime.

Last month around 3,000 soldiers were deployed to the streets of Italy’s biggest cities in an initiative which the government said would deter criminals.

The soldiers, some of whom mounted joint patrols with police, are expected to remain on the streets for at least six months.

The government is also proceeding with a plan to fingerprint thousands of Roma gypsies who have no identity papers, many of whom live in makeshift camps around Italy’s big cities. The measure has attracted criticism from human rights groups such as Amnesty International.

Mr Berlusconi’s coalition also plans to tackle the problem of overcrowded prisons by deporting thousands of foreign criminals.

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   Sunday - September 07, 2008

Children aged eight enlisted as council snoopers and report petty offences such as littering.

Yes I know my fellow Americans won’t understand and even then will not approve of this sort of thing.
But you simply don’t understand the joys and entitlements and thrill of the chase as these kids will no doubt be doing “their bit” to save the world from litter. And this little island will lead the way and bring India and China and wasteful Americans into the fold to save zeverld mine furher.  Oh wait, different movie. hahahaha!
I can’t help it. Gotta laff. It really is twistedly funny.  These folks are sooooooooooooooooooooooo serious about the globe getting warm and following eu dictates TO THE LETTER while the rest of europe ignores what isn’t convenient to them.  But the Brits bless em do as they’re told by their masters in Brussels and by their lefty labour govt.  And there’s a damn serious war going on here and it’s against waste and plastic bags and ppl not putting their trash bins the required distance from the kerb (that’s how it’s spelled here).  Markets trying to limit the plastic bags they hand out to their customers and everyone wanting to be seen as Gween.

Used to be during the cold war, being seen as a commie wasn’t too cool for anyone outside the unions and labour party.  Now it’s not cool to be seen as not green.

Maybe this isn’t so funny after all.  Oh btw .. they’re called “enviro-crimes.” Sets the blood boiling that does. EnviroCrime!

Children aged eight enlisted as council snoopers
Children as young as eight have been recruited by councils to “snoop” on their neighbours and report petty offences such as littering, the Daily Telegraph can disclose.

By Martin Beckford, Sarah Graham and Betsy Mead
Last Updated: 1:00PM BST 06 Sep 2008

The youngsters are among almost 5,000 residents who in some cases are being offered £500 rewards if they provide evidence of minor infractions.

One in six councils contacted by the Telegraph said they had signed up teams of “environment volunteers” who are being encouraged to photograph or video neighbours guilty of dog fouling, littering or “bin crimes”.

The “covert human intelligence sources”, as some local authorities describe them, are also being asked to pass on the names of neighbours they believe to be responsible, or take down their number-plates.

Ealing Council in West London said: “There are hundreds of Junior Streetwatchers, aged 8-10 years old, who are trained to identify and report enviro-crime issues such as graffiti and fly-tipping.”

Harlow Council in Essex said: “We currently have 25 Street Scene Champions who work with the council. They are all aged between 11 to 14. They are encouraged to report the aftermath of enviro-crimes such as vandalism to bus shelters, graffiti, abandoned vehicles, fly-tipping etc. They do this via telephone or email direct to the council.”

Other local authorities recruit adult volunteers through advertisements in local newspapers, with at least 4,841 people already patrolling the streets in their spare time.

Some are assigned James Bond-style code numbers, which they use instead of their real names when they ring a special informer’s hotline.

This escalation in Britain’s growing surveillance state follows an outcry about the way councils are using powers originally designed to combat terrorism and organised crime to spy on residents. In one case, a family was followed by council staff for almost three weeks after being wrongly accused of breaking rules on school catchment areas.

It also emerged last month that around 1,400 security guards, car park attendants and town hall staff have been given police-style powers including the right to issue on-the-spot fines for littering, cycling on the pavement and other offences.

Matthew Sinclair, of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, described the recruitment of children as “downright sinister”.

He said: “We are deeply troubled by these developments – they are straight out of the Stasi copybook. There is a combination of ever-stricter rules and ever more Draconian attempts to control people.

“Councils are using anti-terrorist legislation for the tiniest of things, like the people who put out their bins early, and the threats of fines and prosecutions combine to constitute fleecing the people the councils are meant to be serving.”

The increase in surveillance comes at a time when an estimated 169 councils have dropped weekly rubbish collections.

Some local authorities are refusing to collect bins which are placed too far from the kerb, while others are issuing £100 fines to people who fail to comply with recycling rules.

Critics have claimed that councils have stopped prosecuting people for flytipping in favour of pursuing easy targets such as fining people for dropping bits of food and cigarette butts.

In April, Hull council officials fined a young mother £75 for dropping a piece of sausage roll while trying to feed her four-year-old daughter. Sarah Davies, 20, refused to pay and the matter when to magistrates court where it was dismissed.

Doretta Cocks, founder of the Campaign for Weekly Waste Collection, said the use of children by councils was “shocking”.

She said: “What sort of world are we bringing them up in? I think it’s dreadful for neighbour to spy upon neighbour in that way.”

The Daily Telegraph contacted more than 240 councils across England and Wales to ask if they had recruited environmental volunteers.

Of those, 36 or just under one in six, said they had. They included Luton, with 600 volunteers, the highest of any council; Southwark, south London (400) Birmingham (370) Blaenau Gwent (300) and Congleton in Cheshire (300).

Among the “environmental crimes” which the snoopers are asked to report, which vary from council to council, are failure to recycle rubbish, vandalism, graffiti, dog fouling, fly-tipping and abandoned vehicles.

Some councils merely ask recruits to keep an eye out for problems, while others are sent out on patrols. Several of the councils which do not yet use volunteers said they were considering doing so in future.

Many of the town halls said they did not encourage their volunteers to confront offenders or collect evidence, for their own safety.

But Bromley Council in Kent offers up to £500 for information that leads to a conviction.

Crawley Borough Council in West Sussex said its 150 Streetcare Champions were asked to “report on individuals if known”. Bolton Council said its Green Inspectors must “note any relevant information such as registration numbers” if they see criminal activity.

Others, including Fareham in Hampshire and Waltham Forest in east London encourage their volunteers to take photographs of rubbish to help investigations.

Liz Henthorn, 66, a retired nurse who is one of 120 “Street Hawk” volunteers in Enfield, north London, openly describes herself as a “curtain twitcher” but insists she is not snooping on anyone.

She said: “If there is a problem with fly-tipping, general bad behaviour, graffiti etcetera then I ring the Street Hawk person and when I do it is cleared. Enfield has become a lot cleaner because of us curtain twitchers having a look around.

“If you can you report an individual but nobody is going to give their name and address. If you know where that person lives you can say you know who it is but other than that you don’t.”

A spokesman for the Local Government Association, which represents town halls across the country, insisted: “Environment volunteers are people who care passionately about their local area and want to protect it from vandals, graffitists and fly tippers.

“These residents are not snoopers. They will help councils cut crime and make places cleaner, greener and safer.”

Dominic Grieve, the shadow home secretary, said: “In any civilised society the community will engage with the police but it would be plain wrong for young children to be recruited and trained for reward. People want to see the police and other appropriate agencies on our streets catching and deterring offenders.”

Councillor Sue Emment, Ealing Council’s cabinet member for environment and street services, said: “Ealing Council works with participating schools so Junior Streetwatchers can learn how to help our local environment, take pride in their community and have a sense of civic responsibility.

“Organisations like the TaxPayers’ Alliance are fast becoming parodies of themselves and ought to find out about Council schemes before making comments. We feel it is sad that the valuable time these young people are spending on improving the community should be criticised in any way.”

A spokesman for Harlow Council said: “We need to encourage more people to care for their community. If we can encourage people at a young age to do this then they will grow up to respect the environment. Our Street Champions, which is an entirely voluntary scheme naturally, has the backing and support of parents for children to take part in the scheme. The scheme is highly regarded.

“The scheme isn’t just about them reporting environmental problems, they also take part in projects to help them learn new skills and in a wider context, about citizenship.”

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An inmate is frustrating prison bosses by refusing to leave jail - two years after serving his time.

Welcome to the cozy-wozy, fuzzy, wuzzy, touchy-feely and make everyone happy system of crime and punishment?

This is Moonbat nuts.  He found a loophole? Or some lawyer. Never mind. Some pins under the nails would get him talking fast enough. Actually, they could simply tell the SOB that he’s being deported to Somalia and then chain him up and drop him there.  Maybe off shore even.  Why oh why oh why do the powers that be keep on putting up with this sort of crap, but oh let some old duffer put the wrong trash in the wrong bin or not have the top closed all the way and they come down on ya like stink on ..... well, you know.

Mystery inmate refuses to leave jail
An inmate is frustrating prison bosses by refusing to leave jail - two years after serving his sentence.
By Richard Edwards, Crime Correspondent
Last Updated: 2:30PM BST 05 Sep 2008

The male prisoner, who is a foreign national, has exploited a loophole in the system by refusing to divulge his real name and country of origin.

He was due to be deported to his home country when he completed a six-year sentence for wounding with intent and aggravated burglary at HMP Peterborough in 2006.

But the necessary paperwork cannot be processed because he has refused to give prison officers his name or reveal the country where he was born.

Angry prison bosses fear the unnamed inmate could potentially remain at the prison indefinitely - costing the taxpayer an estimated £30,000-a-year.

Alessio Beschizza, chairman of HMP Peterborough’s Independent Monitoring Board (IMB), said he could not see an end to the “unusual” situation.

He said: “He is refusing to give the authorities any information about himself and there is nothing that can be done. We don’t even know if the name he has been giving is correct and he will not confirm his nationality.

“He has been due for deportation since he completed his sentence almost two years ago, but the prison has no choice but to hold him until we get the information.

“He could well be in there indefinitely, unless someone takes his case up and it goes through the courts, but I can’t see that happening.”

Between April 2007 and March 2006, an average of 173 foreign nationals were accommodated at the prison - more than 15 per cent of its overall population.

During the same period, there were on average 16 prisoners awaiting deportation after serving their sentences, but most were removed “within reasonable time” according to the IMB.

Once a sentence is spent by a foreign prisoner, he or she is handed over to the authority of the UK Borders Agency to prepare papers for their deportation.

A Prison Service spokesperson said: “Prisoners who refuse to engage with the UK Borders Agency and will not disclose their country of origin may be held until such a time as their identity can be confirmed”.

The IMB’s annual report made reference to the prisoner’s situation, adding that concerns had been raised a year ago but had still not been addressed by the authorities.

According to the Refugee Council, his behaviour indicated he could be facing hardship or persecution if he was sent back to his home country.

A spokesman said: “If someone feels they don’t want to be deported so strongly that they are prepared to remain in prison beyond their sentence, then it is likely there are some serious issues at stake. “Asylum issues where people have some sort of fear of returning to their country are very complex, and it is important cases such as these are adequately examined.”

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What BS.  Examined? Why?  They do a crime in this country and authorities are concerned about the gremlin’s concern?  How much sense does that make?  Is anyone concerned about something like public safety?  And this bastard committed violent crime and they’re concerned about his safety somewhere else?
This really is maddening. As in RCOB. Worse yet, it isn’t simply the UK with upside down touchy-feely make nice to the bad guy. That crap is everywhere and I’d venture to say maybe the US as well.  Hope not but can’t help being skeptical.

Half of all criminals re-offend withn a year
Nearly half of all criminals released from jail reoffended within a year of being let out, figures have disclosed.
By Richard Edwards, Crime Correspondent

The number of crimes committed by serial offenders who have just left prison or begun a community punishment has risen to more than half a million a year, according to data from the Ministry of Justice Criminal Coddling. 

Almost four out of 10 adults and juveniles are convicted of another crime within 12 months. The proportion of re-offending juvenile criminals rose year-on-year, despite the Government target of cutting numbers by five per cent from 2000 to 2006.

The figures showed that the longer offenders spent in custody, the less likely they were to re-offend.

(Here’s a flash for em.  Never mind “less likely” to re-offend.  Brick wall, firing squad = they NEVER re-offend.  And it has the added bonus of giving law enforcement some extra time to sharpen their weapon skills.)

By contrast, the number of severe new offences by those receiving community sentences rose by 21 per cent. The crimes include an estimated 92,384 cases of violence; 3,392 serious assaults; 8,404 robberies; 46,300 burglaries and 137,320 thefts.

Nick Herbert, the shadow justice secretary, said: “The Government is forcing courts to issue more community sentences because it has failed to build adequate prison capacity. However, community sentences are not robust and they are not stopping prolific criminals going on to commit serious offences.”

Yesterday one of Britain’s most senior police officers said that confidence in the criminal justice system had been undermined by a prison crisis.

Mike Fuller, the chief constable of Kent police, said criminals were avoiding jail or being freed early due to a shortage of prison places, which he claimed ministers should have foreseen five years ago.

The Ministry of Justice figures tracked the 51,157 adults and 48,938 juveniles who were released from jail or began community punishments in the first three months of 2006.

Among adults, 39 per cent were reconvicted of another crime within 12 months, slightly down on 2005, while among juveniles the rate rose slightly to 38.7 per cent.

With many criminals being caught several times, there were 146 offences for every 100 adults in the group, and 123 crimes per 100 juveniles.

That equates to a total of almost 540,000 crimes committed over 12 months – up 3.3 per cent on the previous year.

David Hanson, the justice minister, said: “We have made considerable progress in protecting the public by reducing re-offending but there is more work to be done.”

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   Wednesday - September 03, 2008

Washington shooting rampage leaves six dead .  Here we go again. Cops should have wasted this guy.

Oh great. The bastard gives up and cops let him live. WHY?  He’s worthless and useless. He could be used for medical experiments to further science and medical knowledge.  Or used for surgical students to practise on instead of poor dumb animals who’ve hurt no one.

It happens on this side of the world as well.  Oh, poor sick boy held with warning about high risk but, we’ll let him out to see how he does.
How the SOB does is kill six ppl.  Why is time and effort and taxpayer money being spent on sub-human life forms like this?  So now six people who never saw him before are dead before their time, while this scum will get a lawyer at taxpayer cost of course.  RCOB.

Washington shooting rampage leaves six dead
Six people were killed and two injured when a man in north-west Washington state went on a shooting rampage, leading authorities on a high-speed car chase before turning himself in.

By Catherine Elsworth
Last Updated: 8:03AM BST 03 Sep 2008

Lead shooting suspect Isaac Zamora is escorted by police after turning himself in.
A female police officer answering an emergency call was among the dead.

The victims were killed at different locations in Skagit County, north of Seattle, authorities said.

The female officer was killed after answering a call to a home near the small town of Alger where a disturbance had been reported.

After she failed to call in, back-up was sent and discovered her dead at the scene. Another person was also found dead in the house.

In a nearby house under construction, authorities then found two builders, also shot dead. Another victim was found a few doors away.

A driver was also killed on a major road as the gunmen fled police. A motorcyclist was wounded and another police officer injured when a bullet grazed his arm.

After the shooting in the Alger area, the gunman fled along a highway, reaching speeds of over 90 miles per hour as police gave chase. The road was closed causing massive traffic jams as investigators scoured the area.

The suspect turned himself in about two and a half hours after the first shooting was reported. Authorities said he was known as “someone with a mental illness.”

The Seattle Times quoted Department of Corrections officials who identified the man as Isaac Zamora, 28, a non-violent offender with convictions for theft and drug possession who was on a “high risk” list because of his mental health problems.

A DOC spokesman told the paper Zamora was released from jail a few weeks ago.

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   Thursday - August 28, 2008

Killer so dangerous even police officers are warned not to approach him.  Law & Order ? Where?

RCOB .... what a crock.  Can not understand how shrinks could have this animal out loose. 
Can anyone tell me why this is a life worth keeping?  Oh yeah ... must be careful as he isn’t really guilty cause he be sik and also he be black wid a name nobody can pronounce so he have de cibil rights thing ya knows.  Victims? What victims?  Oh, you mean this poor sik boy? Wait, can say boy anymore can we?

Folks like this really need to be taken out immediately for the safety of the general public at large.  It should never , ever be ppl like him at large. Dead, yeah. At large? Never!

On the street: The WPC killer so dangerous even police officers are warned not to approach himBy Stephen Wright
Last updated at 9:46 AM on 26th August 2008

Police have been warned of the dangers of approaching a dangerous schizophrenic who is back on the streets just ten years after being locked up indefinitely for killing a WPC.

Magdi Elgizouli, 40, who has a deluded hatred of the police, has been granted leave from a secure psychiatric unit four hours a week in preparation for his permanent release.

He is also allowed out a further five hours each month to visit his brother.

Mental health chiefs say they believe Elgizouli’s psychiatric condition has improved significantly since he killed WPC Nina Mackay, and have granted him supervised release to help reintegrate him back into society.

However, police disagree, and an urgent message has been issued under Scotland Yard’s ‘officer alert system’ warning that Elgizouli is a grave threat to officers’ safety and should not be approached.

WPC Mackay’s father - retired Metropolitan Police Chief Superintendent Sidney Mackay - has also reacted angrily after belatedly learning that Elgizouli has been given leave from St Bernard’s Hospital in Southall, West London.

Jobless drifter Elgizouli stabbed his daughter to death with a seven-and-a-half-inch kitchen knife as the 25-year-old went to arrest him at a flat in Stratford, East London in October 1997.

Moments before her death, WPC Mackay removed the body armour that could have saved her life because the protective vest was hampering her movement.

At the time, Elgizouli was in breach of bail conditions for assaulting a police officer and possessing an offensive weapon, a knife, 11 days earlier.

Victim: Nina Mackay was knifed to death in October 1997
In April 1998, he was detained indefinitely and ordered to be sent to Rampton maximum security hospital in Nottinghamshire after admitting manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.

The Old Bailey heard he had been ‘very ill’ at the time of the killing because he had refused to take the necessary medication for his illness.

Since being locked up, Elgizouli - who was born in Britain but is of Sudanese origin - is said to have responded well to treatment. He is now a patient at a secure unit in St Bernard’s as preparations are made for his eventual release.

In a letter to the Mental Health Review Tribunal, WPC Mackay’s father said: ‘Can I remind you that the death of our daughter remains as painful today as when it happened over ten years ago?

The opportunity for her to visit us for five hours per month would be overwhelming. That is not going to happen and our sentence continues unabated.

‘I am well aware the changes to Elgizouli’s condition are preparatory to his ultimate release into the community and I will do my best to ensure that those responsible are subsequently held accountable if he disappears or some dreadful happening occurs.

‘A little more openness about your intentions, unpalatable as we may find them, would be much appreciated in the future.

We remain the living victims of this dreadful event and owe it to the memory and love we bear our daughter not to see her death disappear as another statistic for an academic to ponder over, while the person responsible resumes his life as if nothing happened.’

Mr Mackay told the Daily Mail: ‘This is a man who became psychotic-through the use of cannabis and has expressed hatred for the police.

‘In the run-up to the death of my daughter, he refused to take his medication and jumped bail. I cannot believe he has changed much in the intervening years.’

An MHRT official said the patient’s ‘overall care rests with the detaining hospital’.

In a letter sent to Mr Mackay earlier this month, the Ministry of Justice said that, for confidentiality reasons, it could not confirm any details about Elgizouli.

An official added: ‘It is not the case that leave indicates discharge is imminent.’

Mr Mackay’s grief was compounded five years ago when the Home Office ruled his daughter would not be honoured for her courage by receiving the Queen’ s Gallantry Medal.

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A CALL TO THE POLICE. QUICK PLEASE, THERE’S A BURGLER HERE. REPLY, SOLVE THE PROBLEM YOURSELF.

Hey, not a joke.  Apparently that’s the message in reply to a 999 call to the police.  999 in UK is 911 in USA.

999 call answered with police text saying: solve it yourself
A couple who dialled 999 to report a burglary at their neighbour’s house received a text message from police asking them to investigate it themselves.
By Gordon Rayner Chief Reporter
Last Updated: 3:23AM BST 28 Aug 2008

A couple who dialled 999 to report a burglary at their neighbour’s house received a text message from police asking them to investigate it themselves.

Cambridgeshire Constabulary contacted Lloyd and Suzanne Bishop an hour after their 999 call to explain that it was too short-staffed to send anyone to the scene.

The message read: “Lloyd. Following on from your call earlier on to the police, please can you contact us if you are able to establish what has been stolen and where from?

“At this time we’re struggling to get the police to attend general calls for service, many thanks.”

Mrs Bishop, 29, from Cambridge, said she was “gobsmacked and disgusted” by the response after she and her husband saw a man smashing a padlock on their neighbour’s shed before jumping over a fence.

She said: “To text the person who calls and ask them to investigate what had been stolen, broken into and who did it is just incredible. It gives burglars the idea that they can get away with it because the police aren’t going to send anyone out. What message does that send to my neighbours here? Is it pointless to call police if you see someone breaking in?”

Mrs Bishop and her husband, who are full-time carers for their two-year-old daughter Lizzie, who has special needs, were woken at 5am on Sunday by the sound of the padlock being smashed and saw a man in a white T-shirt running off. Mr Bishop, 33, immediately called police and was assured that officers would check the area for the culprit.

He said: “I would have thought they should have been able to catch a man in a white T-shirt as there couldn’t have been many running around the area at five in the morning. The police are asking us to do their job. It makes you wonder what we pay our taxes for.”

Despite his reservations, Mr Bishop did as he was asked, and looked into the shed, which did not appear to have had anything taken from it.

A Cambridgeshire police spokesman, said: “Due to the number of emergency calls we were unable to send an officer straight to the scene.

“All calls have to be graded by their urgency and, unfortunately, at this time there were a number of incidents, including reports of disorder and assaults, which police were attending.

“A text message was sent to the caller to explain that officers were unable to attend immediately and we apologise if this disturbed them.”

A spokesman from the Taxpayer’s Alliance said: “It is shocking to think things have got so bad that police are texting people to ask them to be volunteer sleuths.”

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   Wednesday - August 27, 2008

Another Criminal Mastermind

     

An Illinois man who police say held five people hostage in a Fort Madison motel was arrested after he sent two of his hostages on a beer run.

Police say 33-year-old Jason Slagel, of Moline, Ill., is charged with five counts of false imprisonment and going armed with intent. They say Slagel pulled a knife during an argument Tuesday night with another man and told the people in the room that they wouldn’t be allowed to leave.

One man was cut and Slagel had a cut on his hand, but police say the injuries weren’t serious.

Police say that after awhile, Slagel got thirsty and sent two of his hostages out for beer.

After the hostages left, they called police and Slagel was arrested without incident.

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Organised crime gang stopped when ringleader shot.  (Graveyard Dead! )

So now there’s two less gremlins here on our doorstep in the country of Hampshire,England. Score one for the good guys. Wish they could have taken out the
all the other rotters as well but hey, two is good.  I’m happy with that.

Kudos Cops. Well done.

Organised crime gang which stole £500,000 stopped when ringleader shot
A organised crime gang which made half a million pounds in a series of armed robberies was stopped in its tracks after the mastermind was shot dead by police, a court heard.

A organised crime gang which made half a million pounds in a series of armed robberies was stopped in its tracks after the mastermind was shot dead by police, a court heard.
By Aislinn Simpson
Last Updated: 1:09AM BST 27 Aug 2008

The gang carried out detailed reconnaissance trips and used stolen cars to target cash in transit vans outside banks in at least 18 robberies across the south of England, Kingston Crown Court heard.

Its 18-month crime spree was brought to an end in September last year when armed police shot dead two of its number, including boss Mark Nunes, 35, after lying in wait outside a bank in Chandler’s Ford, Hampshire.
The getaway driver, Terrence Wallace, 26, was arrested later that day after fleeing the scene, the court heard.

Wallace and three other alleged members of the gang, Victor Iniodu, 34, Leroy Wilkinson, 29, and Adrian Johnson, 28, from London, all deny conspiracy to rob.

Brendan Kelly, opening the case for the prosecution, said: “This case concerns robberies, sometimes armed, sometimes not, that targeted the carriers of cash in transit, that is guards employed to move money to and from banks and all other retail outlets.

“Over an 18-month period of time, this gang netted in excess of £500,000.”

The court was told Nunes recruited gang members and selected the targets but also joined in on the robberies.

Mr Kelly said: “Despite their skills, their planning and to a degree, their patience, their luck ran out.”

The Metropolitan Police managed to identify at least some of the culprits and they were followed.

Nunes and accomplice Andrew Markland, 36, were under surveillance as they drove to Chandler’s Ford, a small town in Hampshire on September 13.

“Again their victim was a Group 4 Security guard but this time there was a difference,” Mr Kelly said.

“Armed police officers both undercover and secluded in various buildings in the vicinity of the HSBC bank were watching.

“They saw Nunes point a loaded firearm at the head of the guard and as he did so, he was shot dead to protect the life of the guard.

“As Markland went to pick up the gun, he too was shot dead.”

Wallace, of Raynes Park, Wilkinson, of 3 Presentation Mews, 42 Palace Road, Streatham, Johnson, of 79 Abbotts Place, Streatham Hill, and Iniodu, of 297 Derinton Road, Tooting, all deny conspiracy to rob cash in transit between April 27 2006 and September 14 2007.

The trial continues. 

(Trial? What is there to try? Just rid society of the company and save the money. Trial. Jeesch)

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   Friday - August 22, 2008

MAJOR MOONBAT ALERT HERE.  The bungling burglar left dangling by his shoelaces .

YOU REALLY NEED TO SEE ALL THE PIX AT THE LINK BELOW.

Pictured: The bungling burglar left dangling by his shoelaces after getting caught in victim’s bay window
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 6:56 PM on 22nd August 2008

This is the amazing scene of a burglar hanging upside down that greeted home owner Paul Ives when he returned home from work.

Thief John Pearce had got his foot caught after smashing his way through the glass and was left hanging upside down for more than an hour, unable to move.

Eventually, he was freed when Mr Ives called police and paramedics who managed to release Pearce’s shoe and hauled him down.

Britain’s worst burglar: John Pearce had got his foot caught after smashing his way through the glass

Pictured: The bungling burglar left dangling by his shoelaces after getting caught in victim’s bay window
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 6:56 PM on 22nd August 2008

This is the amazing scene of a burglar hanging upside down that greeted home owner Paul Ives when he returned home from work.

Thief John Pearce had got his foot caught after smashing his way through the glass and was left hanging upside down for more than an hour, unable to move.

Eventually, he was freed when Mr Ives called police and paramedics who managed to release Pearce’s shoe and hauled him down.

Enlarge Britain’s worst burglar: John Pearce had got his foot caught after smashing his way through the glass

Now the red-faced 32-year-old thief has appeared before Dartford magistrates in Kent where he admitted burglary with intent to steal.

Paul, 44, said: “The man must be the world’s dumbest thief.”

Paul arrived at his terraced house in Dartford to find the burglar hanging in his window. It is believed the laces in one of his trainers may have become caught.

The intruder had a hammer in his hand and at first tried to deny he had been breaking in.

Hanging around: John Pearce had got his foot caught after smashing his way through the glass

He told the householder that he had spotted someone else trying to raid the house and had decided to stop him.

“I was stopping the burglars,” he told Paul.

At this point a small crowd of onlookers gathered and began to mock the intruder
while others took pictures.

Paul said: “He was hanging upside down. His body was inside the house and he was stuck in the window with his foot outside.

“The more he struggled, the more he got jammed. When I got home, he still had the hammer in his hand which he had used to smash the main window and get some leverage.

“He was screaming to get him down and we were all saying : ‘I don’t think so.’

“He kept saying: ‘I haven’t done anything. I was stopping the burglars.’”

Mr Ives’ girlfriend, Angela Gloyn, 32, said: “Afterwards we had a right giggle about it.”

Pearce, from Dartford, was remanded in custody by Dartford magistrates.

He will be sentenced on September 5.

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   Monday - August 18, 2008

Burglar in underpants ‘just wanted to do his laundry’.  (just had to post this one for fun)

Burglar in underpants ‘just wanted to do his laundry’
A burglar who broke into a woman’s home in order to do his laundry fled in his underpants after being disturbed half way through the wash.

By Matthew Moore
Last Updated: 12:43PM BST 18 Aug 2008

The break-in was discovered after the woman returned home to find clothes covered in bleach strewn across her basement laundry room.

Unaware that the intruder was still on the premises, the woman from Wichita, Kansas went upstairs to call her husband.

While she was on the phone, the burglar, dressed only in a pair of blue boxers, darted out of the basement, grabbed her purse, and fled.

The woman chased the intruder and managed to grab back bag her purse. On returning to the basement, she found the man’s trousers and belt in her washing machine.

Police believe the man broke in through the basement window after deciding that his clothes needed washing.

The suspect, who police describe as a 5ft 9in white man in his 30s, with light-coloured hair, is still on the run.

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   Tuesday - August 12, 2008

BEYOND MOONBAT … way beyond ….  THIS GUY IS NUTS and DANGEROUS..

Man what has gotten into folks these days. OUCH!  Musta hurt. 
Can’t even imagine what it must have been like for the other guy arrested for crimes he didn’t commit.

Man who stabbed himself to frame his neighbour is told to move house or go to jail
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 4:01 PM on 12th August 2008

A ‘neighbour from hell’ who stabbed himself to frame a husband has been given six months to move house - or face going to prison.

David Constantine’s lies nearly led to newlywed Stefan Ward being charged with attempted murder after he was found with a knife sticking out of his chest.

Constantine was arrested after discharging himself from hospital.

He was originally charged with perverting the course of justice, which he denied - and causing the injuries to himself.

Today he admitted the charge of putting a person in fear of violence by a course of conduct between March 2006 and January this year.

Judge Peter Bowers deferred sentence for six months to allow Constantine time to sell his home in Lanchester, Co Durham.

In the meantime, he must live at a bail hostel.

He will only be allowed to visit the house to carry out work to make it saleable and must be accompanied by a solicitor, a probation worker, a police officer or a workman.

A restraining order was imposed to stop him communicating with the Wards or making complaints about them.

Christopher Knox, prosecuting, said the police search of Constantine’s home also revealed hostility towards Derwentside District Council officials.

He was said to have been angry that his complaints - even though they were clearly made up - were not being taken seriously.

Mr Knox told the court: ‘It was as a result of this accumulation of evidence that the Crown took the view he was not the victim, but the aggressor.’

Constantine’s barrister, Tony Davies said his client still denied causing the injuries to himself on New Year’s Eve and the previous December.

He said the log of complaints were ‘random ramblings’ and added: ‘He never intended to carry out any of the private things he had written about the Wards.’

Constantine disputed the elements contained in the admitted charge that on two separate occasions he made false allegations of assault against Mr Ward.

Officers also spoke to previous occupants of the Wards’ home and they revealed how they were forced to leave by Constantine’s aggressive behaviour.

The trouble for the Wards started soon after they moved into the semi-detached house in March 2006 and were unable to help Constantine with a problem.

Several weeks later the couple received the first of what became a flurry of letters from council officials.

Environmental health workers installed noise monitoring equipment, which proved the dog rarely barked, and it became clear Constantine’s complaints were unjustified.

Teesside Crown Court heard how the former Hell’s Angel waged a vendetta against his next door neighbours, Mr Ward and his wife, Lucy.

Police called to Constantine’s house found him in a chair with a knife sticking out of his chest.

The 60-year-old claimed his neighbour had assaulted him and police arrested Mr Ward on suspicion of attempted murder.

But the truth began to emerge when police searching Constantine’s home in Manor Grange, Lanchester, found his diary.

The court heard how Constantine fell out with his neighbours after they were unable to give him a lift to Newcastle to collect a bike.

Christopher Knox, prosecuting, told the court how:

Constantine complained to the council about the couple’s dog barking. Bur recording equipment proved the pet rarely made a sound;
Kept a log of incidents that did not take place;
Threatened to kill his neighbours, made vulgar gestures and used his fingers to imitate a gun;
Accused Mrs Ward of throwing a brick through a window. Although police proved that was impossible.
Mr Ward was twice arrested for crimes he did not commit.
In December 2006, Constantine claimed Mr Ward attacked him with a frying pan.

His neighbour was arrested but later released without charge.

Constantine, who needed six stitches, received £1,000 from the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board.

His former girlfriend later told police that Constantine had admitted he had not been assaulted by Mr Ward.

Worse was to come, when police were called to the house on New Year’s Eve and found Constantine with a knife embedded in his chest.

Mr Ward was arrested and questioned about the stabbing, but freed when police found ‘a mass of disturbing material’ at Constantine’s home.

The search team uncovered knives, axes and airguns. A log containing fabricated complaints showed Constantine’s ‘extremely hostile’ behaviour.

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   Monday - August 11, 2008

Actor Robbie Coltrane pictured on ‘wanted’ poster in place of teenage suspect.

See? Now this kind of dumb thinking is what causes bad language and RCOB.

I found this a few days ago and should have posted it sooner but this does deserve a major MOONBAT AWARD for the authorities who heaven forbid can’t let the citizens know what the gremlin looks like due to his tender age.
This is from NZ which show ya dumb is everywhere.

His screen roles have ranged from a hard drinking criminal psychologist to a failed gangster who dresses up as a nun, but now the actor Robbie Coltrane has found himself the subject of a police “wanted” poster.

By Paul Chapman in Wellington and John Bingham
Last Updated: 1:36AM BST 08 Aug 2008

Copies of the poster have been pushed through letter boxes in central Christchurch, the biggest city in New Zealand’s South Island

Police in New Zealand used a photograph of the British star as an unlikely stand-in for a teenage burglar as the country’s laws prevent them using the real criminal’s image because he is a minor.
Although Coltrane is 58 years old, officers decided that he resembled the 16-year-old suspected serial burglar closely enough to use the picture.

To avoid confusion they advised the public that Coltrane, who is best known in the country as Hagrid in the Harry Potter films, was not in fact a burglar adding: “
“But imagine him aged 16 with lank, greasy hair and you have the picture.”
In what is likely to be seen as an extra insult, the Scottish star - whose real name is Anthony McMillan - is described on the poster as an “English” actor.

Copies of the poster have been pushed through letter boxes in central Christchurch, the biggest city in New Zealand’s South Island.
It shows a glum faced Coltrane under the word “wanted” in large type.

It explains in smaller letters beneath that Coltrane, who plays criminal psychologist Eddie Fitzgerald in the television series, is not the burglar but did look like him.
It adds that the real criminal lives locally and travels by bicycle to commit his crimes.
“He will break windows to gain entry and ransack property, targeting electronic items, cash and jewelery.”
Police said that, given the legal restrictions on what they could publish and the offender’s known resemblance to a younger Coltrane, frustrated officers came up with the plan.

Sergeant Phil Dean said: “It’s a provocative thing to get people to read our crime prevention information.”
He said of the look-alike burglar: “Our interest is in shutting him down, preventing him from committing any further crime.”
Residents of the area have been largely impressed by the ingenuity of the local police.

“I think the leaflet is very, very clever,” one middle-aged man said. “It got around the law and alerted us to what is going on in our neighbourhood.”
Another said: “I am wondering what Robbie Coltrane would look like as a 16-year-old. I’m also wondering how he would get through the window of my house.”
Pat Creasey of the local Neighbourhood Support group, commented: “I think Mr Coltrane would think it was a bit of a hoot. I’m sure he would be fully supportive of it.”
But an elderly woman said she did not know whether the leaflets were a joke.

It is not the first time Coltrane has been pictured on a “wanted” poster. In the comedy Nuns on the Run his on screen persona Charlie McManus takes refuge in a convent after police offer a $1 million dollar reward for his capture.
Coltrane, who is on holiday with his family, was unavailable for comment.
His London agent was not amused and refused to comment.

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   Sunday - August 10, 2008

MUGGINGS BY CHILDREN DOUBLE AS MEAN STREETS GET MEANER

Steep rise in violent crime by children
The number of muggings committed by children has doubled, according to new crime figures.
By Melissa Kite, Deputy Political Editor
Last Updated: 2:16PM BST 09 Aug 2008

Government data showed that one in eight violent crimes, more than a quarter of a million, were committed by school-age offenders in the year to April.

Muggings committed by under-16s, including robberies and snatch thefts, doubled in one year to 55,000. Children also committed more than 70,000 offences of stranger violence, a 17 per cent increase on the previous year, according to the British Crime Survey.

In the survey, which is the Government’s own preferred measure of crime, victims are asked whether their attacker appeared to be “of school age or under”.

The figures come amid rising concern over the epidemic of knife crime commited by teenagers and after police warned yesterday of a huge rise in violence by women.

An average of 240 women a day are arrested for violent offences in England and Wales, often when drunk, and many were joining street gangs putting new pressure on resources, police chiefs said.

Although the crime figures for 2007/8 published last month showed an overall fall in crime, including violent crime, closer analysis has revealed the jump in youth violence. Dominic Grieve, the shadow home secretary, who uncovered the true picture, said: “This is a shocking indictment of Labour’s failure. As well as inflicting misery on too many victims now, what kind of problems are we storing up for the future?”

Gordon Brown called on communities across Britain to rally against knife crime. The Prime Minister said it was “the biggest problem at the moment” in some cities.

But he said the Government alone could not tackle it and the community also had a role to play in changing the culture to make carrying knives unacceptable.

Speaking at the opening day of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, the Prime Minister said: “Young people are thinking it’s acceptable, fashionable, necessary for them to protect themselves, to carry a knife.

“Just like we made guns unacceptable, we should make knives unacceptable.

(What kinda fool is this?  The latest two killings didn’t even involve knives. One was done with a screwdriver, and in another killing, some poor guy was beaten to death while out walking his dog.  NO. It isn’t the damn weapon(s) fool.  What needs to be made TOTALLY unacceptable and no excuses or lawyers tricks, are the slap on wrist oh they’re “youths” kind of thinking. What needs to be unacceptable is the lack of fear of the law among the worthless sub culture in total control of the streets.  What needs to be totally and absolutely UNACCEPTABLE is LIBERALISM in dealing with the kinds of out of control crime seen here over the years.)

“You need not just young people but parents and other people to say that knives in Britain, like guns, like bullying, like racism, all these things are unacceptable.

“There are certain boundaries in a decent society you don’t cross and these boundaries are cultural, because in America it is acceptable for many people to carry guns, it’s not in Britain. I think in Britain we’ve got to make it as unacceptable to carry knives.

“I think most decent people in our country would want to do that and I think what you will see over the next few months is this sort of campaign, which is led not just by Government but people in the country to say ‘get knives off our streets - it’s completely unacceptable’.”

The warning on violent women came from Paul McKeever, the chairman of the Police Federation of England and Wales, which represents rank-and-file officers.

He said: “Clearly there is an increase in the number of women who use violence in their everyday life and when they are out drinking on the streets around the country. It’s a new phenomenon and it does stretch the resources of the police service.”

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IN CASE YOU’RE WONDERING JUST WHAT HAPPENED TO WIND ME UP ON A TOPIC I DIDN’T WANNA POST, IT’S BEEN BUILDING AS I READ THIS STUFF.
AND REALLY PPL, THERE ISN’T ANY WAY TO AVOID IT.  IMPOTENT ANGER I GUESS.  CAN YOU READ THIS CRAP AND NOT WONDER OR GET A BIT PO’d?

Now serial criminals could be let off with caution after caution
By James Slack

Under the Home Office guidance, anyone caught committing the same ‘trivial’ offence again can be let off with the equivalent of a slap on the wrist - providing two years have passed.

It means a thief could receive up to five cautions in ten years without ever having to face a court appearance.

THEN THERE’S THIS OF COURSE.  HEY ... THIS’LL STRIKE FEAR IN THE HEARTS OF THE GREMLINS. SURE IT WILL.

Go easier on inmates, prison told (and try using their first names)

By JAMES SLACK
A prison has been told by inspectors that it is being too hard on its inmates. Her Majesty’s Inspector of Prisons said convicts should be called by their first names.

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These last two stories both at the same link with several more to cause blood to boil.

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ENGLAND’S MEAN STREETS.

Gee, heartwarming to understand the negra was “under supervision” at the time he murdered the kid.

With a record that goes back to the time he was 12, why wasn’t he taken out and shot at 13?  Not a chance in a million he or his pals will ever be any different.

Will the next victim please step forward.  Oh, and we mustn’t refer to the killers as thick lipped niggers because that’d be racist. Come on, see the video and look at the faces and tell me they’re not apes, at best.

I think I’m wound up again. It never ends, does it?

Teenager who murdered schoolboy Martin Dinnegan was under supervision
A teenager with a history of violent crime has been jailed for life for murdering a talented schoolboy while under supervision for an earlier attack.
By John Bingham
Last Updated: 3:24AM BST 09 Aug 2008

Joseph Chin, 16, who has a criminal record dating back to when he was 12, was part of the gang which chased 14-year-old Martin Dinnegan down a street on bicycles and mopeds before stabbing him to death in broad daylight last year.

Chin, who can be named for the first time after a court order was lifted, was found guilty at the Old Bailey last month of the killing which came just an hour after two groups of youths exchanged “dirty looks”.

He was himself stabbed twice during a series of flare-ups between the groups. But, ordering him to serve a minimum of 12 years in jail, the Common Serjeant of London, Judge Brian Barker QC told him he was responsible for a “vengeful attack out of all proportion to what may have gone on before”.

Kevron Williams, 17, who was convicted of attempting to cause grievous bodily harm over the same attack, was given four years in youth detention.

Martin, who had just earned a place on an engineering course, was stabbed four times in the back near his home in Holloway, north London, on June 26 last year.

A pupil at St Aloysius College, a popular catholic boys’ school in nearby Archway, he was on a bus when looks were exchanged with a rival group on bicycles sparking a series of confrontations.

Fleeing a subsequent fight he found himself chased along the street by youths on bicycles and mopeds.
Williams was first to catch up with him, punching him to the ground and stabbing him with a screwdriver.

The jury heard how Chin then arrived on a BMX bicycle, knocking him back to the ground and pinning him down before stabbing him to death.

Tom Morgan, a witness who lived in the area, told the court now he saw Martin running past him, looking pale, pleading: “Please help me.”

Prosecutor Aftab Jafferjee QC said Martin’s death illustrated the “growing scourge of urban posturing” among the youths of Britain.

“It was the equivalent of being hunted in a pack,” he said. “Dirty looks turned to death in an hour.”

The judge disclosed in his sentencing how Chin, of Finsbury Park, north London, had a criminal history dating back to January 2004 when he was caught carrying a snooker ball in a sock.

The following April he threatened a man with a hollow bar and was given a warning for affray.

In September 2006 he was given a 12-month supervision order after kicking a shopkeeper unconscious when challenged for stealing some food from outside the store.

The order was still in force when he carried out the murder the following June. Because of his age he was being supervised by his local authority Islington Council’s Youth Offending Team rather than the Probation Service.

“This was a deliberate attack requiring a long chase with revenge in mind,” the judge told Chin.

“This was really arrogant group violence and the result is totally unacceptable.

“It was an attack carried out without any regard to the standards and rules that we live by and no thought for the victim, his friends and his family.”

In a statement read to the court Martin’s mother Lorraine Dinnegan said “Life will never be the same, a piece of our heart has been taken.”

She also disclosed that shortly after her son’s death she found a religious studies essay about the parable of the Good Samaritan in which he wrote about being chased by a group and left for dead by the side of a road.

Youths given a supervision order by the courts must have regular appointments a member of the council Youth Offending Team to discuss causes of their criminal behaviour and work out an individual supervision plan designed to prevent a repeat.

They must also notifying them of any changes of address and could face criminal charges for failing to attend regular sessions.

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