Oh yes.
I assume that big gink at the back is a brother, he has similar facial features.
Dozens of men, some in balaclavas, got out of the cars. “They came into our back garden,” Latta recalls. “My seven-year-old daughter was quite terrified. She was in tears, saying, ‘Daddy, what’s happening, are they going to come into the house?’” This was not a scene from a war zone. It happened two weeks ago in the Cambridgeshire Fens where, for a few, terrifying hours of pandemonium, citizens were left at the mercy of intruders who robbed petrol stations, raced through villages and rampaged across fields to stage an illegal hare coursing tournament on Latta’s land. They carried out this unruly incursion with impunity, not once challenged by police.
“I counted 13 vehicles and 70 men, they took over our farm for several hours, cutting through padlocks on gates, turning the place into their playground,” says Latta, 50, who grows onions, potatoes, wheat and barley on 2,000 acres just north of Cambridge. He called the police three times that afternoon in vain. “They said they would come. We’re still waiting four days later. We’ve felt alone and very vulnerable.”
It seems as if a shadow has fallen across parts of green and pleasant England, now in the grip of a rural crime epidemic and policing crisis, the latest, menacing manifestations of which are marauding convoys of rural road warriors.
The invaders, thought to be from the Traveller community, then roared into Manea (pronounced “mainee”), a village with 2,000 inhabitants which is surrounded by fields that are a haven for thousands of overwintering Russian swans. “We’re a sleepy, one-horse, fenland town, I’ve never seen anything like it,” says Charlie Marks, a local Conservative councillor. He was walking along the pavement when he heard the screeching of wheels as the first wave of a dozen 4x4s came round the corner: “They were doing about 70mph in a 30mph zone, and sometimes up on the pavement,” he said. “They were full of guys with balaclavas and sunglasses, one of them hanging out of the window grasping a pickaxe handle.”
https://x.com/Jonnywsbell/status/1887997292088840362?mx=2
Child rapist Stephen Ireland gets chauffeur driven around by Surrey Police...
The police are totally captured...
https://www.surrey.police.uk/news/surrey/news/2024/08/two-men-charged-with-child-sex-offences/
https://thecritic.co.uk/british-politics-needs-more-history/
We must do better than this. Without being glib or platitudinous, there is obvious value in rigorous analysis of history, especially recent history, and in the distillation of lessons about what worked, what went wrong and why policies succeeded or failed.
The past can offer us useful experience and shortcuts in our learning processes; when the Falklands crisis erupted unexpectedly in 1982, Margaret Thatcher consulted her aged predecessor as prime minister, 88-year-old Harold Macmillan, about managing a conflict. Drawing on his experience in Churchill’s wartime government and during the Suez crisis, he advised her to assemble a small “war cabinet” in which HM Treasury should not be represented.
This was created in the form of OD(SA), the Cabinet Defence and Overseas Policy Sub-Committee on the South Atlantic and Falkland Islands, and consisted of the prime minister, the foreign, home and defence secretaries, the attorney-general, the chief of the Defence Staff and the chairman of the Conservative Party. No Treasury ministers were involved, and the chancellor, Sir Geoffrey Howe, later said it was “like being on sabbatical”.
A few years ago, Sir Anthony Seldon proposed that each government department should have “an active historian advising ministers on historical precedent”, and there should be a “chief historian” alongside the chief scientific adviser, the national statistician and other experts. This luminary would “oversee the steady supply of accurate historical information to the prime minister and his key advisers, with the power and confidence to challenge them”.
EXPOSED: The under-the-radar effort in academia over a DECADE to frame grooming gang concerns as 'racist'
Take an academic article published in Sage Journals entitled, "Grooming and the 'Asian sex gang predator': the construction of a racial crime threat". The 2013 article was published one year after nine men were given lengthy prison sentences for their role in a child exploitation gang in Rochdale.
At one point, the study authors stated that grooming concerns should be "contextualised against deeper-seated concerns", citing "growing Islamophobia in the wake of the 9/11 and 7/7 bombings" among the examples. They also wrote that the "current fixation with grooming and ‘Asian sex gangs’" serves to "legitimise thinly veiled racism" and that "white co-offenders and ethnic minority victims are routinely downplayed in the insistence that this is a problem of Asian men targeting white girls".
The 2018 book entitled, "Media, Crime and Racism", focuses on the racialisation of crime and the criminalisation of racialised minorities.The book delves into the role of media in perpetuating racial stereotypes, creating moral panics, and influencing public and policy perceptions of crime, especially in relation to racial and ethnic minorities.
Semina Halliwell: Rape victim, 12, took her own life directly after police interview, her mother tells Sky News The mother of Semina Halliwell, a girl with autism who alleged she was raped by a boy from her school, says she holds Merseyside Police accountable for their failures to investigate her complaints.
A 12-year-old rape victim took her own life directly after an interview with a police officer who had previously discouraged her from bringing forward a criminal complaint and subsequently failed to properly investigate it, her mother has told Sky News.
Semina Halliwell, who had autism, alleged she was raped by an older boy who attended the same school as her and had groomed her over Snapchat into secretly meeting him. Her mother, Rachel Halliwell, contacted the police after Semina broke down and told her what had happened following a severe incident of self-harm. But officers from Merseyside Police "made Semina feel like she was an inconvenience to them", according to two family members who were present during interviews, and no charges have been brought against the alleged perpetrator who Semina named.
The family told Sky News that Merseyside Police did not inform Semina's school of the reported rape, despite assurances to the family that safeguarding would be in place. This meant she was forced to stay at home as she was not protected from coming into contact with the alleged perpetrator.
Just a lady with goats
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czr3l06rd0jo
The trial of two men accused of illegally chopping down the world-renowned tree at Sycamore Gap has been delayed as one of the defendants is unwell.
The tree, which had been valued at more than £620,000 and was owned by the National Trust, was discovered lying across Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland on 28 September 2023.
The much-photographed landmark had previously been named England's best tree and became known globally after appearing in the 1991 film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.
Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, both from Cumbria, deny criminal damage with their trial due to be held at Newcastle Crown Court. The court heard Mr Graham was unwell and unable to stand trial, with Judge Mrs Justice Lambert saying it was "highly desirable" and "strongly" in the public interest the men be tried together.
A hearing is due to be held in January to determine a future court date.
God almighty, that is just appalling.
Yep.
It's a hobby, I suppose...chop chop 😁 ✂️
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ceqlnpg0gr1o
A criminology student spent a month planning a random murder before stabbing two women on a beach at night, a court has heard.
Nasen Saadi killed Amie Gray, 34, and seriously injured 38-year-old Leanne Miles on Durley Chine Beach in Bournemouth on 24 May, Winchester Crown Court was told.
Sarah Jones KC, prosecuting, told the jury: "He seems to have wanted to know what it would be like to take life."
Mr Saadi, 20, from Croydon, denies charges of murder and attempted murder.
What the hell? That is terrible!
I have one with a candle in it, they are quite weighty bottles too. The gin is apparently quite a strong one, as is the one they make at home
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn4x24d1dkxo
Residents of a road near Sevenoaks have expressed their frustration at not receiving any post for over three weeks.
People living on Collet Road in Kemsing have been waiting for important letters such as medical appointments, bank statements and cheques.
Michael Creasey, who regularly attends Moorfields Eye Hospital and is waiting for confirmation of an appointment early next year, said: "It's a bit of a worry."
A Royal Mail spokesperson said letters and parcels were treated with equal importance and if a route experienced a delay, it would look to prioritise that area the next day.
Mr Creasey said he regularly phones his doctor's surgery for updates.
"I should have the letter by now," he said.
Post vans are still seen on the quiet estate on the edge of the village but are only delivering parcels...........................................................
🤯
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gwzgv5l3eo
A woman's baby died after "a lack of hospital capacity" meant she could not be induced for 60 hours, lawyers say.
Induced labour had been planned for Chelsea Wootton when she reached week 41 of her pregnancy, Irwin Mitchell said an inquest into the death of Ava-Lea heard, but she "wasn't warned" of dangers of going past that stage.