And now a drive-by motorbike shooting outside a restaurant in Dalston Kingsland (perennially dodgy but latterly trendy area of North London). Probably a gang hit but seems a child got in the way.
We're basically Brazil or Mexico now.
This is not the Britain that I grew up in. Yes we had crime and bad things in the 80s/90s when I was young but shootings were so incredibly rare they were truly shocking. There was Hungerford, there was Dunblane and the Cumbria shootings in 2010 but it was just not something that generally happened. Now it is becoming something you could call a common event. To the point the Dalston horror has not had nearly as much reaction to it as one would expect.
It is appalling our justice system and policing have been weakened to the point that they are. I feel very afraid of the outside world these days.
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Fiona Beal sentenced to minimum 20 years.
Fiona Beal, 50, lured builder Nick Billingham, 42, into the bedroom with the promise of sex and before 'executing' him in the Northampton home they shared.
www.dailymail.co.uk
Should have been at least 30, just based on how premeditated it was and her disgustingly callous behaviour after like having a drink with his poor mum knowing her son was dead and buried in the garden. I do think it would have been a longer sentence if she were a man. I think the UK justice system is far too soften on women just for being women - and I am one.
There was an awful story of a woman abusing her spouse and she got merely a suspended sentence, I was apallled.
The organization womeninprison.org greatly concerns me because while I can see where they are coming from to a point, I worry they may be a big part of why there are one too many violent, dangerous women - and women who attack other women over nothing, meaning people like me are at risk - walking the streets. That's assuming the org has as much power as I wonder about, maybe I give them too much credit.
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This just tells me the ASBO's did duck all. They saw them as a badge of honour in most cases, the photos outside of court smoking etc.
ABSO's were completely useless.
I
bleeping despise the Tories but Labour are not going to be any sort of relief if they get in, when they come up with nonsense like this.