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Tuesday August 28,2007

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NATIONWIDE revulsion over the killing of schoolboy Rhys Jones failed to stem a tide of shootings and stabbings over the bank holiday.

By yesterday at least two murders were added to the weekend’s grim toll with more victims fighting for their lives and many others injured.

It was more proof that our streets are being taken over by the rule of the gun and the knife.

In Leeds, 17-year-old Lewis Tomlin was stabbed to death hours after a car crash a mile from his home. Police said the incidents were linked.

In Wellingborough, Northants, a man was stabbed to death after his 21st birthday.

In Liverpool, shots were fired through a window a few miles from where Rhys was gunned down.

In Manchester’s Hulme district a 13-year-old needed hospital treatment after being shot by an air gun. In Birmingham, a 31-year-old man was stabbed in the back after an argument with youths. Several others were injured in the incident.

A 13-year-old boy was shot in the leg by masked men at a house party in Tottenham, north London, where an 18-year old girl suffered a gunshot wound to her back and an 18-year-old youth was shot in the chest.

At the Notting Hill Carnival in west London two people were arrested for attempted murder and a man suffered stab wounds.

A woman in her 30s was shot outside Virgo’s nightclub in Bermondsey, south-east London.

And in east London, a 15-year-old schoolboy was repeatedly stabbed in an attack by a gang of hoodies.

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BANK HOLIDAY TOLL

29.08.07, 8:12pm

Unfortunately I do not think anyone will be convicted of the murder of Rhys Jones
Whoever fired those shots was probably blazing away at other gang members or even their car.
Only an experience marksman could hit anything they aimed at at more than a few feet range. A teenager with probably a borrowed gun certainly could not. The verdict would have to be manslaughter.

• Posted by: exnomad • Report Comment

SOLVED CRIMES FIGURES,TOTAL FICTION.

29.08.07, 9:38am

The way the the police collate crimes solved figures is nothing short of dishonest.
For instance,two men fight and accidentally break a vase.
Once the police have broken up the fight,they have solved a crime but the broken vase is also counted as a crime.Hence two crimes solved.Clever hey.
That was a rather simplified example but an indication that the number of crimes they claim to have solved,is complete baloney.

• Posted by: rozipoz • Report Comment

GRIM BANK HOLIDAY TOLL ON OUR LAWLESS STREETS

28.08.07, 10:54am

If this is labour getting tough on crime I dread to think what will happen should they ever take the soft approach! They say crime levels are falling, well excuse me for being a sceptic but I get the impression they are higher than ever. Murders, stabbings, muggings, beatings and so on makes for worrying reading day after day in the press.

I expect the reported crime figures are down because people realise that the police will not investigate a crime properly if at all so why bother reporting it in the first place.

• Posted by: Vymnto • Report Comment

GRIM BANK HOLIDAY TOLL ON OUR LAWLESS STREETS

28.08.07, 9:08am

When the Government tells you that crime is falling, don't believe them. THEY ARE TELLING LIES.

• Posted by: joeking • Report Comment

TOUGH ON CRIME, TOUGH ON THE CAUSES OF CRIME

28.08.07, 5:06am

I'm so glad we all voted for New Labour who are "tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime" - I can really feel the benefits.

I'm also so glad the statistics show that crime rates are decreasing. Just knowing that makes me feel very safe now :) Well done to us all!

Robin

• Posted by: Robin_Mac • Report Comment