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Post by jonksy on Feb 14, 2024 7:55:24 GMT
Is it such a big leap? Would you rather be shot than covered in acid. They are both deadly weapons in the wrong hands....People shouldn't be put in that posostion anyway to have to make a split second decistion. Id rather be neither if Im honest but if you're going to get 1200 volts for being a drunk on a bus I had best watch my step  But on a more serious note plod had plenty of time to make an evaluation of the situation and there was enough of them there to deal with the idiot . Maybe they did feel threatened and in imminent personal danger from the can of cider and were justified in using the taser but it all seemed a bit over the top to me , maybe I'm wrong . The problem is there are so many of these attacks and our police have a thankless task....Sorry to say you always have hose who seem to jump on the bandwagon but do not have the intent to harm... |
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Post by Handyman on Feb 14, 2024 14:52:59 GMT
In todays Guardian re the Thames
Historic placenames along the River Thames in London once summed up its macabre past. There was Dead Man’s Dock at Deptford, Dead Man’s Steps at Wapping, and Dead Man’s Hole, which still exists, at Tower Bridge. They evoked stories of people who were executed, murdered or killed themselves.
the search for the chemical attack suspect Abdul Ezedi the river had surrendered two bodies unrelated to the case, serves to highlight its gruesome present.
On average, about 30 bodies are retrieved from the river’s dark waters in London each year.
The job falls to the marine policing unit (MPU), responsible for policing 47 miles of the river between Dartford and Hampton Court.
Last year, the MPU retrieved 45 bodies. Not all were from the Thames, as the MPU also polices lakes, reservoirs and 200 miles of canal in Greater London. But most will have been found washed up on the river’s mudflats and shingle beaches, or floating in its fast-flowing current.
Metropolitan police figures show that in 2021 23 bodies were found in the urban stretch of the Thames covered by the MPU. In 2019 there were 27, in 2017 there were 30 and in 2015 there were 38.
It is estimated that along the full 213-mile course of the Thames, a dead body is washed up once a week on average.
Few make the headlines; those are reserved for incidents such as the discovery in 2001 of the torso of a young African boy, called Adam, believed to be the victim of a ritual killing, or the 1989 Marchioness disaster in which 51 people died.
Had it not been for the high-profile Ezedi search, the fact that two other bodies had been found might have passed almost unnoticed, consigned to a paragraph or two in the local press.
One member of MPU team said: “The number of bodies we recover has been pretty consistent for about 50 years. Around 28-40 a year. The mean is probably about 30.”
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Post by dappy on Feb 14, 2024 15:43:38 GMT
All of those people were someone's son or daughter, perhaps someone's brother or sister. At least in the case of those who wash up, the families eventually know even if perhaps they struggle to understand why. There are probably many more that never wash up and the families never get to know for sure. London is noisy vibrant and arguably overcrowded. counter intuitively it is probably easier to be desperately lonely in London than anywhere else in the UK. It's a shit world sometimes.
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Post by jonksy on Feb 14, 2024 23:30:37 GMT
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Post by Red Rackham on Feb 20, 2024 11:49:27 GMT
Body is found in the hunt for Clapham chemical attacker Abdul Ezedi: Met Police recover body in River Thames which they say is the suspect - nearly three weeks after mother and her children were attacked - linkHey ho, one less benefit claimant. |
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Post by wapentake on Feb 20, 2024 11:53:41 GMT
Body is found in the hunt for Clapham chemical attacker Abdul Ezedi: Met Police recover body in River Thames which they say is the suspect - nearly three weeks after mother and her children were attacked - linkHey ho, one less benefit claimant. Beat me to it,saves a trial and prison cost |
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Post by Handyman on Feb 20, 2024 12:05:43 GMT
Body is found in the hunt for Clapham chemical attacker Abdul Ezedi: Met Police recover body in River Thames which they say is the suspect - nearly three weeks after mother and her children were attacked - linkHey ho, one less benefit claimant. Sentenced by a Higher Authority  |
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Post by Totheleft on Feb 20, 2024 12:06:59 GMT
Body is found in the hunt for Clapham chemical attacker Abdul Ezedi: Met Police recover body in River Thames which they say is the suspect - nearly three weeks after mother and her children were attacked - linkHey ho, one less benefit claimant. I's that your opinion of someone who Commits Suicide don't Matter ig he Commited A crime or not |
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Post by Totheleft on Feb 20, 2024 12:08:07 GMT
Body is found in the hunt for Clapham chemical attacker Abdul Ezedi: Met Police recover body in River Thames which they say is the suspect - nearly three weeks after mother and her children were attacked - linkHey ho, one less benefit claimant. Sentenced by a Higher Authority I's that your opinion of someone who Commits Suicide don't Matter if he Commited A crime or not |
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Post by Handyman on Feb 20, 2024 12:28:17 GMT
Is there an Echo in here ? or is it between his ears
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Post by Totheleft on Feb 20, 2024 12:36:27 GMT
More British service personnel have killed themselves since 1984 than have died in combat, Action on Armed Violence has discovered.
A comparison of UK Ministry of Defence data on suicides since 1984 in the UK regular armed forces and UK Armed Forces Deaths: Operational deaths showed that, since 1984, some 905 serving members of the military killed themselves whilst serving compared to 802 deaths related to hostile actions.
The British Military have only published post-1984 data on serving personnel suicides. The above figures do not include veteran suicides.
Overall, the British military has suffered 802 combat deaths since 1984 following hostile action in Northern Ireland (171 in Northern Ireland, 53 outside), Gulf War One (24), Balkans (13), Sierra Leone (1), Afghanistan (405), and Iraq (135). This compares to 905 suicides whilst in service.
Military suicides have generally fallen over the last 40 years. However, in 2021, the MOD noted that “in the last five years there was an increase in the rate of suicide among Army males from six per 100,000 in 2014 to 15 per 100,000 in 2018.” Their report noted that “suicide remains a rare event in the UK armed forces, with on average less than two per month. This represents less than one death per 1,000 armed forces personnel.”
This revelation comes as new data emerges that the percentage of British Army service personnel who have been medically discharged for mental and behavioural disorders has increased some 318% in a decade, it has been revealed. Overall, in a decade the proportion of Tri-service discharges – Royal Navy, Army and Air Force – for mental health concerns have collectively also risen by some 245%.
Very very sad this is why I say we should shut the professional trained
Armed forces down to.protect these you lads from a hostile environment
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Post by Vinny on Feb 20, 2024 13:10:29 GMT
Glad we don't have to pay to accommodate this criminal in the prison system.
Shame he didn't end himself before attacking others.
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Post by Red Rackham on Feb 20, 2024 13:15:10 GMT
Body is found in the hunt for Clapham chemical attacker Abdul Ezedi: Met Police recover body in River Thames which they say is the suspect - nearly three weeks after mother and her children were attacked - linkHey ho, one less benefit claimant. I's that your opinion of someone who Commits Suicide don't Matter ig he Commited A crime or not How do you know it was suicide? He may have slipped, he may have been pushed. As far as I'm aware the police haven't mentioned suicide. |
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Post by Totheleft on Feb 20, 2024 13:33:34 GMT
I's that your opinion of someone who Commits Suicide don't Matter ig he Commited A crime or not How do you know it was suicide? He may have slipped, he may have been pushed. As far as I'm aware the police haven't mentioned suicide. No they haven't but they have footage of him standing at the bridge . So he would of had climb the barriers of the bridge what seems less likely he just sliped .and if he was pushed it' then murder would you have the same attitude if it was murder. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2024 13:38:08 GMT
Body is found in the hunt for Clapham chemical attacker Abdul Ezedi: Met Police recover body in River Thames which they say is the suspect - nearly three weeks after mother and her children were attacked - linkHey ho, one less benefit claimant. I's that your opinion of someone who Commits Suicide don't Matter ig he Commited A crime or not Oh yes it does. Really, it does matter what he did. We don't know he committed suicide, either. But better dead than alive for everyone. |
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