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Friend beaten at Barclays Cashpoint Coldharbour Lane
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Mike, your attacker wasn't wearing a denim jacket with a red snake on the back by any chance?
Just spoke to a close friend who's healing nicely. Him and his girlfriend went to the cashpoint at Barclays... Waiting in the queue when this geezer comes up and says 'My friend is next!', my mate turns round (he's not like me - he's quite polite and non- confrontational) and says 'alright mate, calm down'.
The guy grabs him round the throat and starts punching the fuck out his head. My mates wondering where his girlfriend is so doesn't really want to fight the guy and the guy's saying: 'don't...let...me....have....to...cut....you....up' anyway, so he didn't fancy being knifed. As he says anyway, he's getting used to being punched in the head and it doesn't bother him as much as it used to, he was basically waiting for the guy to stop, which he did eventually and my mate and his hysterical girlfriend walked down to Brixton Police station where they tried to be a lot of help. Wonder if Mike's attack and publicity has woken them up a bit. The copper says he's pretty sure he knows the guy.
So its baseball bat drive-by if the cops don't sort it.... He'd better get a new jacket.
Anyone Urbanite see this? It was on Tuesday night?
Don't think this needs a new thread...
Mike, your attacker wasn't wearing a denim jacket with a red snake on the back by any chance?
Just spoke to a close friend who's healing nicely. Him and his girlfriend went to the cashpoint at Barclays... Waiting in the queue when this geezer comes up and says 'My friend is next!', my mate turns round (he's not like me - he's quite polite and non- confrontational) and says 'alright mate, calm down'.
The guy grabs him round the throat and starts punching the fuck out his head. My mates wondering where his girlfriend is so doesn't really want to fight the guy and the guy's saying: 'don't...let...me....have....to...cut....you....up' anyway, so he didn't fancy being knifed. As he says anyway, he's getting used to being punched in the head and it doesn't bother him as much as it used to, he was basically waiting for the guy to stop, which he did eventually and my mate and his hysterical girlfriend walked down to Brixton Police station where they tried to be a lot of help. Wonder if Mike's attack and publicity has woken them up a bit. The copper says he's pretty sure he knows the guy.
So its baseball bat drive-by if the cops don't sort it.... He'd better get a new jacket.
Anyone Urbanite see this? It was on Tuesday night?
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Eeek! Sorry to hear of the attack. What is with these fucking cunts?BootyLove said:
But the guy wasn't wearing a jacket when I was attacked although his behaviour sounds about right!
Glad your mate made the complaint too: it's not much of a chance, but it may just help get this violent scumbag off the streets.
It sounds pathetic, but it took me until yesterday to be able to walk part of the way down Somerleyton Road and I felt very uncomfortable...
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Nothing pathetic about that Mike - I think they call it Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. My girlfriend still can't walk down the Clapham end of Acre Lane on her own...
Yeah, hopefully a few complaints and CCTV footage (they must have this latest attack on camera) will help remove a couple of C-heads.
Yeah, hopefully a few complaints and CCTV footage (they must have this latest attack on camera) will help remove a couple of C-heads.
Fingers
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Another Brixton incident from yesterday. My friend's heavily pregnant girlfriend was dropping her sister off at the tube yesterday. Her sister statered gettign harrased by a 4ft 2" stocky black guy who kept tryign to touch her and started saying 'nice pussy' and stuff.
My friend's gf told him to fuck off and was instantly called a fat lesbian. He started walking away and then came after the two girls and reached for his pocket and pulled out a soft drinks can, shook it and spirted it all over my friends pregnant gf. she was on her way to work so had her decent clothes on.
Pretty disgusting incident.... Brixton really is going down the pit.
My friend's gf told him to fuck off and was instantly called a fat lesbian. He started walking away and then came after the two girls and reached for his pocket and pulled out a soft drinks can, shook it and spirted it all over my friends pregnant gf. she was on her way to work so had her decent clothes on.
Pretty disgusting incident.... Brixton really is going down the pit.
hendo
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The Met is being criticised today for - among other things - its response times.
http://www.thisislondon.com/news/londonnews/articles/11316512?source=Evening Standard
http://www.thisislondon.com/news/londonnews/articles/11316512?source=Evening Standard
hendo
Fish finger sandwiches
Here it is:
(courtesy The Standard)
Met attacked over response times
By Ben Leapman, Evening Standard
14 June 2004
Police chiefs are under orders to solve more crimes and respond more quickly to 999 calls.
A government watchdog is accusing the Metropolitan police of falling behind on clearup rates for violent crime, hate crime, robbery and burglary.
On the key task of fighting day-to-day crime, HM Inspectorate of Police branded the Met as "not on target and in need of improvement".
But, at the same time, the watchdog backed the leadership of Commissioner Sir John Stevens and praised the Met's work on terrorism.
The London force finished mid-table in the first national ranking of police regions. It was far ahead of five lagging forces including Humbersideand Cambridgeshire, both already under fire over failures to conduct proper checks on Soham murderer Ian Huntley.
Chief Inspector of Constabulary Sir Keith Povey warned that slow responses were a national problem, and urged forces to review call centre operations.
Last year, the Met failed to answer one in six 999 calls within the 15-second target, and one in
five callers were not satisfied with the response.
Under Met rules, it should take no more than 12 minutes for an officer to reach the scene after an urgent call.
In a series of criticisms, inspectors said:
Violent crime in London has risen three years in a row and is worse than in other big cities.
Only one in four violent crimes is solved, well below average.
Burglary and car crime detection is too low.
Hate crime clear-up rates have fallen in the past three years.
The report said: "The Met has been successful in reducing some crime but still needs to bring more offenders to justice."
But the Met was hailed as a "world leader" for its integrity and professional standards, and its counter-terrorism work was "the envy of the policing world".
Sir Keith's team warned that future reports could hold Met officers up for comparison with those in Paris and New York - because the current system of comparing London with Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds was unrealistic.
Inspectors graded all 43 forces in Britain on 16 criteria, including tackling day-to-day and serious crime s, leade r ship, management and diversity.
The Met was rated "excellent" in one area, "good" in 11 and "fair" in four - including daytoday crime, hate crime and call-handling.
New Scotland Yard officials hailed their mid-table ranking as a minor triumph. They claimed that if the league table had been constructed three or four years ago the position would have been much lower.
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Richard Bryan said: "The last four years have been a period of unprecedented change and learning for the Met.
"What was a deteriorating situation of rising crime and too few officers is now turning around."
(courtesy The Standard)
Met attacked over response times
By Ben Leapman, Evening Standard
14 June 2004
Police chiefs are under orders to solve more crimes and respond more quickly to 999 calls.
A government watchdog is accusing the Metropolitan police of falling behind on clearup rates for violent crime, hate crime, robbery and burglary.
On the key task of fighting day-to-day crime, HM Inspectorate of Police branded the Met as "not on target and in need of improvement".
But, at the same time, the watchdog backed the leadership of Commissioner Sir John Stevens and praised the Met's work on terrorism.
The London force finished mid-table in the first national ranking of police regions. It was far ahead of five lagging forces including Humbersideand Cambridgeshire, both already under fire over failures to conduct proper checks on Soham murderer Ian Huntley.
Chief Inspector of Constabulary Sir Keith Povey warned that slow responses were a national problem, and urged forces to review call centre operations.
Last year, the Met failed to answer one in six 999 calls within the 15-second target, and one in
five callers were not satisfied with the response.
Under Met rules, it should take no more than 12 minutes for an officer to reach the scene after an urgent call.
In a series of criticisms, inspectors said:
Violent crime in London has risen three years in a row and is worse than in other big cities.
Only one in four violent crimes is solved, well below average.
Burglary and car crime detection is too low.
Hate crime clear-up rates have fallen in the past three years.
The report said: "The Met has been successful in reducing some crime but still needs to bring more offenders to justice."
But the Met was hailed as a "world leader" for its integrity and professional standards, and its counter-terrorism work was "the envy of the policing world".
Sir Keith's team warned that future reports could hold Met officers up for comparison with those in Paris and New York - because the current system of comparing London with Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds was unrealistic.
Inspectors graded all 43 forces in Britain on 16 criteria, including tackling day-to-day and serious crime s, leade r ship, management and diversity.
The Met was rated "excellent" in one area, "good" in 11 and "fair" in four - including daytoday crime, hate crime and call-handling.
New Scotland Yard officials hailed their mid-table ranking as a minor triumph. They claimed that if the league table had been constructed three or four years ago the position would have been much lower.
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Richard Bryan said: "The last four years have been a period of unprecedented change and learning for the Met.
"What was a deteriorating situation of rising crime and too few officers is now turning around."
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
There is at present a massive stop and search going on down Somerleyton as I write. They are searching everyone, full frisk, bags, pockets armpits, boot-tops, the lot....I thought it was connected with what happened to you, Mike, but apparently there is a wake somewhere there and it's weapons they're looking for......I was searched too....politely but thoroughly.......
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
It's further up, near Somerleyton Passage, that the searches are happening, cars are being stopped nearer the CHL end....there's also tape over the entrances to Moorlands with several police at each entrance.......
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