Category — Britain

Teenager among four fatal stabbings in London in 24 hours

• A teenager is among four victims of separate fatal stabbings which took place in London over the past day, as a fifth man fights for life.

• His death brings the number of teenagers killed in the capital this year to 20 and comes just days after the Metropolitan police announced that knife crime had usurped terrorism to become their top priority.

• In Walthamstow, north east London, a man in his 20s was fatally stabbed in an attack in St David’s Court yesterday evening.

• In Tottenham, north London, a murder inquiry was launched after a man was found stabbed to death at the rear of a disused pub in Tottenham High Road.

• Four people remain in custody today after a 20-year-old man was fatally stabbed in Leyton, east London.
  The man, named locally as Adnan Patel, died from a stab wound to the chest after crashing his Ford Focus in Downsell Road, Leyton.
  Detectives are investigating whether he was fleeing from the occupants of a van who stabbed him in an apparent road rage attack moments earlier.
  Paramedics were called as passers-by gave emergency first aid and tried to stem the bleeding but Mr Patel died at the scene.

• A fifth man is in a life-threatening condition after a knife attack in London Willesden, north west London at 4.20am this morning.

All of these individuals are were upstanding citizens, who avoided fighting back which breaks the law. Instead, they calmly left all this unpleasantness up to the police.

Police officer dies of heart attack after being diagnosed with indigestion

From NHS, we get news of this money saving treatment. Brits better hope this doesn’t become the new medical rage.

A policeman with a family history of coronary disease was sent home and told to take indigestion remedy when a hospital failed to recognise he was having a heart attack.

PC Brian Burnett, 49, a dog handler, was three months away from retiring when he was taken ill with severe chest pains.

He went to Lincoln County Hospital’s accident and emergency unit where he was examined by a doctor and given an electrocardiogram (ECG) test to check his heart.

But he was told to go home and take Gaviscon, over-the-counter treatment for heartburn and indigestion.

PC Burnett collapsed and died 34 hours later from an atherothrombosis, a condition which leads to arteries becoming blocked.

His widow Christine has now been awarded a six figure sum in compensation three years after his death, with United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust accepting negligence.

Of course, a tidy sum to be sure at first glance. Think of the tidy sums saved by not having the surgical costs on the NHS and savings on his pension.

National health care does save the system money.

Anna Temple, of United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust, said: “We offer our condolences to the family of Mr Burnett.

How wonderful and sensitive of them to care.

What do Syria, Myanmar, Darfur, Hell, Afghanistan, Iran and Britain have in common? God-awful places to live is the answer.
However none except Britain are so uncivilized as to keep you from protecting life and property. The U.S. under the Donks and libs strive mightily to get us to that place particularly with the “progressive education” so enjoyed.

For more than two years, Sydney Davis’ house has been under siege from stone-throwing youths. And more than two hours into the latest attack on his family home, the police had yet to respond.

So after a particularly large missile landed in his kitchen, the 65-year-old grabbed a plank of wood and ran towards the gang to scare them away. But his desperate act came just as the police finally arrived on the scene - where they promptly arrested him for possession of an offensive weapon.

He now faces up to six months in prison. [snip]

In Britain, protecting oneself by means of a weapon, from assault with intent to maim or kill, is punishable with time in prison, not short either.

How did they get they get to this position. By the liberal method of constantly moving the goal posts back to get a bit more correctness in the law.

When the Donks took over congress in the ‘70’s here, they got their ideas from across the pond. We are about 10 years behind Britain in rampant stupidity, only because of luck and some members of SCOTUS. No problem seeing why the left vilifies the conservative side of the bench, is there?

A sampling of cases illustrates the impact of these measures:

In 1973 a young man running on a road at night was stopped by the police and found to be carrying a length of steel, a cycle chain, and a metal clock weight. He explained that a gang of youths had been after him. At his hearing it was found he had been threatened and had previously notified the police. The justices agreed he had a valid reason to carry the weapons. Indeed, 16 days later he was attacked and beaten so badly he was hospitalized. But the prosecutor appealed the ruling, and the appellate judges insisted that carrying a weapon must be related to an imminent and immediate threat. They sent the case back to the lower court with directions to convict.

A proper and PC verdict, would you say?
Now if the jogger said he was carrying the metal to help him lose weight and build up stamina, what could the prosecutor have said?
The lesson to be learned in this PC world is do not tell the truth!

In 1987 two men assaulted Eric Butler, a 56-year-old British Petroleum executive, in a London subway car, trying to strangle him and smashing his head against the door. No one came to his aid. He later testified, “My air supply was being cut off, my eyes became blurred, and I feared for my life.” In desperation he unsheathed an ornamental sword blade in his walking stick and slashed at one of his attackers, stabbing the man in the stomach. The assailants were charged with wounding. Butler was tried and convicted of carrying an offensive weapon.

NYC has a law that allows prosecution for assault if one defends themselves with their cane. A prosecutor can bring the case to the grand jury, which as you know, will indict a ham sandwich for not having mustard. I presume using your crutch would make matters ever worse.

In 1994 an English homeowner, armed with a toy gun, managed to detain two burglars who had broken into his house while he called the police. When the officers arrived, they arrested the homeowner for using an imitation gun to threaten or intimidate. In a similar incident the following year, when an elderly woman fired a toy cap pistol to drive off a group of youths who were threatening her, she was arrested for putting someone in fear. Now the police are pressing Parliament to make imitation guns illegal.

Absolutely right! We cannot have these young malefactors wetting their pants, can we.

In 1999 Tony Martin, a 55-year-old Norfolk farmer living alone in a shabby farmhouse, awakened to the sound of breaking glass as two burglars, both with long criminal records, burst into his home. He had been robbed six times before, and his village, like 70 percent of rural English communities, had no police presence. He sneaked downstairs with a shotgun and shot at the intruders. Martin received life in prison for killing one burglar, 10 years for wounding the second, and a year for having an unregistered shotgun. The wounded burglar, having served 18 months of a three-year sentence, is now free and has been granted $5,000 of legal assistance to sue Martin.

Comparison
Bernard Hugo Goetz, known as Bernhard or Bernie (born November 7, 1947) was dubbed the “Subway Vigilante” by the New York press. How the BBC views this.

(A close friend, American, who lives in England and works in Europe, comes back here for all medical work, including dentistry. He says, “I wouldn’t take a chance in their health care system.”)

Privatisation’ of NHS hospitals faces backlash

Plans to allow private companies to run failing NHS hospitals have prompted a major backlash from doctors, patients’ groups and unions.

Ministers have outlined proposals to monitor hospitals and primary care trusts against a set of standards and if no improvement is seen the whole board of managers will be sacked and a new team brought in from elsewhere in the NHS or from private firms.

But there seemed little interest from private sector companies that are already providing care to NHS patients citing the major risks involved with taking on a failing trust.

Why should any private company take on this mess? The government cannot run the health care; they want some one to assume command so they have a punching bag when it fails.
All this has another name: Hillarycare.

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Other private hospitals that already treat NHS patients have privately expressed concerns and stated they would not be bidding for the contracts.
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“There is an immense amount of talent within the NHS - in leadership and management - and this should be nurtured, grown and developed to ensure NHS Trusts do not find themselves in a position of failure in the first place.”
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Righto, chaps this is why those who can afford to, travel to India or the U.S. for surgical procedures.

We do not have a health care problem here. We have a government caused insurance problem. States will not allow persons to buy basic policies from low cost insurers. Mandated coverage such as acupuncture and aromatherapy to grift special interest businesses add to costs. Community rating and preferred insurers jack up the premiums, a non-smoker pays the same premium as some 3-pack-a-day hacker for the same policy. That makes insurance premiums socially acceptable but out of reach for lower income people.

Islamic extremists should get therapy, Home Office tells local councils

Islamic extremists could escape prosecution and instead receive therapy and counselling under new Government plans to “deradicalise” religious fanatics.

The Home Office is to announce an extra £12.5 million to support new initiatives to try to stop extremism spreading.

The central element of the Home Office plan is a new national “deradicalisation” programme that would persuade converts to violent and extremist causes to change their views.

Two through the towel works better, faster and has a 100% success rate.

The knife wielders must be the “poor and downtrodden.”

Gun control at work

A violent and deadly weekend continues in Chicago. At least 12 people have been shot, two of them killed, since Saturday morning. Two others were stabbed in a home invasion. This comes after at least 20 people were shot, four of them killed, from Friday night through early Saturday.

For a city that has strict laws on guns and no concealed carry, it seems that an inordinate amount of recreational shooting took place. All those laws and the police cannot stop this mayhem? Mayor Daley, Obama and the Illinois legislature would have you believe all these anti-gun laws work just like in Britain.

Britain banned private gun ownership that completely stopped upstanding citizens from shooting up the countryside and cities. Police work is easier too; separating the law-abiding from the criminals is simple. The criminals are the ones with guns; the citizens are the ones dead or wounded.

“Pirates can claim UK asylum”

Not just a problem for Penzance: “The Royal Navy, once the scourge of brigands on the high seas, has been told by the Foreign Office not to detain pirates because doing so may breach their human rights.

Here’s another idea that will go far in “making the world safe for the children.”

Warships patrolling pirate-infested waters, such as those off Somalia, have been warned that there is also a risk that captured pirates could claim asylum in Britain” on the grounds that if sent back to Somalia they could face cruel punishments such as beheading or hand-chopping. (Marie Woolf, Times Online, Apr. 13).

If British courts capitulate to Sharia, at least they’ll have company.  The government is already waving the surrender flag for taxpayers:

The British government has cleared the way for husbands with multiple wives to claim welfare benefits for all their partners, fueling growing controversy over the role of Islamic Shariah law in the nation’s cultural and legal framework. 

That’s right.  Even though bigamy isn’t legal in England, the nanny state will still sign checks for the entire household.  Wouldn’t do to offend after all.