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Teen offenders are 'young persons' not 'youths'... it might upset them, say ministers

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It is not a word usually associated with causing offence, even when those referred to have broken the law.

But 'youth' has been banned from guidelines on the treatment of criminals aged 16 and 17 - because ministers think it is too demeaning.

Instead, offenders must be referred to as 'young persons' in the latest code for prosecutors. The newly fashionable phrase is used 101 times in the document.

The change of wording was mocked yesterday by the Tories, who described it as the 'bizarre' invention of a new taboo.

Shadow Justice Secretary Dominic Grieve added: 'Yet again, ministers have shown that they are more bothered about pandering to political correctness than coming down hard on the crime and antisocial behaviour that blights communities.'

The code for prosecutors on issuing Youth Conditional Cautions to 16- and 17-year- olds has been rewritten following a consultation over an early draft.

Officials at Jack Straw's Ministry of Justice and Ed Balls's Department of Children, Schools and Families said: 'A number of responses suggested the term "youth" had negative connotations and should be replaced by "young persons".'

Disapproval of language considered to give the wrong impression has been a hallmark of Labour's years in power.

Its Youth Justice Board has tried to prevent 'gang' in case it criminalises youngsters who gather together. It prefers crime committed by such gatherings to be described as 'group-related'.

Similarly, Scotland Yard refers to 'group rape' or 'multi-perpetrator rape' to avoid 'emotive' language.

Even prison officers have been told to observe correct priorities by addressing inmates as 'Mr'.

However, 'youth' appears likely to cling on for some time in government lingo. continues here

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Caught by chance

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Editorial :
I awoke today to some great news, news that as a law-abiding citizen and as a nationalist I have awaited for some time, today the 16 November 2009 could prove to be a momentous day, a day when a great evil is removed from our streets, a day when the elderly can sleep easier in their beds in their twilight years. It is a fact that thee greatest rape inquiry ever untaken in this country has been kept quiet because of political correctness, this a crime of extreme severity against the defenceless, against the old, against the truly vulnerable within our society, oh we have all heard of Peter Sutcliff and many more white monsters, evil afflicts all races, yet this plague upon all our houses ,this agenda driven suppression of truth, is only ever used for incidents that may blacken, “can I use that word”, this enforced multiracial society.

So it is that non-white crime is indeed rarely covered by the mainstream media, so it is that potential victims are never warned, never forearmed, never protected by a state whose job it is to do so. Today there is an epidemic of crime, attacks upon the white population soar and still, still they tell us we have to accept ,you will know of Fred West a truly vile creature but how many know of Kenneth Erskine, known as the Stockwell Strangler, this fiend to, as with the current Night Stalker case, sought white elderly victims, men and women in their seventies and eighties ,the youngest victim Mrs Cockett aged 67, all were sexually assaulted or raped, men and women utterly unable to defend themselves, attacked viciously, the male victims Mr Gleim and Mr Strabawa, 84 and 94 respectively.

The crimes above can be found here along with other victims of this appalling experiment. The Incident Map Project does I am afraid need updating, and it is by no means extensive and in fact if any readers can help with information concerning crimes committed, could they please send it here, so that in some way the victims can be commemorated and those responsible for permitting this horror can be held to account, whilst for those of us still enduring we may make use of the information.

Perhaps the greatest listing of crimes against the people were to be found at the old National Front website, regrettably this information is no longer available, we had at one time endeavoured to recreate this information on another website, although we found that we had in fact created an exact replica of that offered by the National Front, we decided not to submit to the web, never knowing that quite soon after the information would be lost forever. Yet although valuable, the information is limited in use, a map containing the information and indeed indicating such things as hotspots and clustering was needed, the Incident Map was created, it is possible to use the information presented there in a number of ways and already we can tell that areas with a high proportion of non-whites hold immense danger for Caucasians, we knew this already however, to see it visually makes, I feel, all the difference.

Yet I feel that independent websites and blogs such as AAWR are of immense importance, I believe that whites face an onslaught of crime so vast as to be almost a campaign in itself, certainly the instilled hatred implanted into the minds of non-whites by leftists has not helped and non-whites have now been fed upon a diet of anti-white and anti-western propaganda, which from time to time creates an explosion within the minds of the unstable. Statistically non-whites are more likely to suffer from mental health problems, this is for many reasons, both genetically and also conversely, because non-whites are set within a completely alien environment which erodes sanity within some, it is unfortunately whites who suffer for it.

Kenneth Erskine, the Stockwell Strangler buggered many of his victims, men and women of great age imagine the terror of the victims, the shame, the final act was to look into the eyes of his victims, to watch as life left their body. Erskine would kneel upon his victim’s chest, placing one hand over their mouth and strangling them with his other hand, Kenneth Erskines conviction would be amended later on the grounds of diminished responsibility. Yet would a sane man or indeed women, murder in such a fashion, is it not that case, that only the truly evil, the insane, could or would indulge in such acts, therefore reducing the tariff is in itself a crime and an insult to both the victims and their families and as stated above, many non-whites suffer from mental disorders disproportionately given their numbers, are we to assume that they will attract a lesser tariff than white predators and monsters, can we assume that the Night Stalker will attract a lesser sentence due to this factor, whilst white fiends are splashed across the tabloid press with great abandon.

If race were not a factor, if we were truly all the same, then why the disparity, surely in an equal society crime figures would not be suppressed, as is the case currently, surely the publics right to know would come before political correctness or “The Experiment”, it would seem not. Non-whites have elevated status this being the case even for the very worst that race has to offer, whilst whites are denied parity and even more importantly I feel, information that may lead to the arrest of perpetrators or enable potential victims to take all reasonable precautions. The independent media, websites and weblogs have created a unique set of circumstances, already this has had an effect upon their “No platform” policy, in that they cannot now suppress information, be it nationalist in origin or not. Certainly they can and indeed do, attack websites that carry dissenting information, one need only look to the recent attack upon David Irving’s website to realise this, however there is such a vast array of information out there, that without resorting to overt censorship, they cannot hope to succeed.

It may be the case in this instance that they have no choice but to cover this story in great detail, again I draw the reader to the fact that this is the biggest rape inquiry ever undertaken by the Metropolitan police or I believe any other force, this attacker carried out the very worst crimes, against some of the most vulnerable and most have never heard of the case until today, that in itself is telling. The Night Stalker attacks methodically and viciously, suffering it is believed from gerontophilia, the reverse of paedophilia in that his attraction is to the elderly, one hopes that this will not present as impairment enough to reduce his sentence on appeal. The Night Stalker firstly cut off any hope of rescue he cuts external telephone wires and if he cannot find them he removes all telephones from their sockets once inside the house, unlike the Stockwell Strangler he is a talented burglar, not needing an open window he enters the house in a professional manner. Having disabled the telephones he invariably searches for valuables, although this is not his primary motivation, which is to sate his lust by attacking the elderly. Clad in a tight fitting black suit and wearing a mask he disables the lights by removing the bulbs or turning the electricity off at the consumer unit, he then shines a torch into the face of his terrified victims, he tells them not to make a noise and they won’t be harmed, he then attacks them for some time, for some hours. Many of his 110 victims are damaged quite severely internally, it can only be imagined the damage done to them psychologically, yet few have heard of this case until today, few ever realised that this countries most prolific serial rapist was even at large, let alone his ethnicity.

Egalitarians will tell you we are all the same, that our differences are simply a matter of skin colour yet the Metropolitan police were able to establish right down to the island the ancestral home of the attacker, they established race almost immediately, calling for sampling to determine the actual island in the Caribbean the attacker or his ancestors hailed from. At this point the Black Police Association banned all black officers from taking part, this attracted some criticism and in this instance commonsense prevailed, after all who would officially put their name to such an order, risk the ire of the public. We can never know the absolute outcome of the sampling undertaken in the Operation Minstead investigation, what we do know is that they were able to establish race and narrow down considerably the geographical area of ancestral origin. We know also that many within the black community failed to aid the investigation citing racial prejudice as at play within the investigation, they had been asked merely to provide a DNA sample in order to be eliminated from ongoing enquiries.

So this in its entirety completely undermines the egalitarian, “we are all the same” inside theory, whilst also we recognise that the black community will generally speaking defend it own even under the most horrendous circumstance, the Black newspaper The Voice calling investigations, into Minstead man “an abuse of power that damaged relations between London’s black community and the police”, whilst one officer Nathaniel Braithwaite a former CID officer with the Met took his former employers to an employment tribunal, alleging unfair dismissal and racial discrimination, after refusing to undertake his duties, which were to stop and profile likely suspects in South London, the area the Night Stalker was said to operate. Concerns were constantly raised during this investigation against racial profiling, yet in this instance race had been established it was simply a matter of ruling suspects out in an ongoing investigation, further, incidences of predatory behaviour of a sexual nature amongst the black community, are markedly disproportionate when contrasted with that of other races, perhaps therefore, the giving of DNA samples created fear amongst certain sections of that community, individuals that had cause to fear personally.

Again the rates of attack carried out by non-whites is extensive yet the true figures are never given, never recorded, due to political correctness or perhaps a fear of a backlash, it would seem that due to this imposed experiment, the will to successfully concentrate upon tackling crime falls second police to social-engineering and the agenda. Some time ago now both myself and other nationalists attempted to compile such information, we were completely overwhelmed, utterly unable to do so, given the sheer volume of offences committed, it is no exaggeration to say, that there is an epidemic taking place and that the authorities turn a blind eye. For all their attacks upon the white community, for all the cries of racism at every opportunity, did you know there are two facts to consider, Britain’s worst racially motivated murder was carried out by non-whites, Britain’s most prolific rapist is non-white and it has even been suggested that Britain’s worst serial-killer Harold Shipman was Jewish, it baffles the mind therefore why whites are so pilloried, so universally attacked, when after all they are the victims. Returning to Minstead man, it is believed that he has some understanding of the health needs of the elderly, as during the investigation evidence emerged that he supported victims in a trained manner, can it be that this beast works for or did, for the NHS, certainly he has been reported as having some understanding of geriatrics.

The degree of trauma suffered by his elderly victims is extensive, one victim nearly dying from her internal injuries after being buggered by her attacker, yet as D S Morgan stated finding the true total of victims is difficult, he gave this statement, “His victims come from a generation who are inclined to see good in everyone. One thanked him for being gentle when he raped her". Another said she didn’t want to dial 999 "because I know the police are already so busy". Doesn’t it make you want to weep, weep for the victims, the victims of this horrendous experiment, that have needlessly suffered, it is believed that the perpetrator has carried out some 108 crimes, yet the true figure may never be known ,some commentators estimate 200 or more victims, here at AAWR we say one is enough, we hope justice is served, at least as much as it can be.



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    ‘Campaign of racial hate’

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    TWO Jersey neo-Nazis planned to distribute ‘propaganda of hate’ throughout Britain by selling CDs featuring anti-semitic songs, a court in London heard yesterday.

    St Helier-based tattooist Jon Denny-Mallen (40) and William Browning (39), a former Les Quennevais School pupil and former Combat 18 leader who now lives in London, are accused of plotting to smuggle far-right CDs into England through the Island.

    On the opening day of their trial, Southwark Crown Court was told that both men were fervent followers of the ‘blood and honour’ international music scene which promoted extreme right-wing views. It is alleged that they conspired to import CDs by Polish racist rockers No Remorse into Jersey.

    Mr Browning, who has addresses in Deptford, and Almorah Crescent, St Helier, and Mr Denny-Mallen, of St Martin, both deny one charge of conspiracy to distribute material with intent to stir up racial hatred between 1 January and 13 July 2006. continues here

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    Man beaten with belts in cinema row

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    A MAN was left needing surgery after a gang viciously whipped him with their belts following a row inside a cinema.

    The 41-year-old victim had taken his girlfriend to watch the late night screening of film Saw VI at the Vue, off The Boardwalk in Lakeside shopping centre.

    During the film the pair had an argument with a couple sitting behind them. When the movie finished the couple left for their car but were surrounded by a large gang, made up of men and women.

    The men removed their belts and started laying into their victim.

    The brutal assault left the man with severe injuries to his arm. He was taken to hospital where surgeons operated on him and inserted a metal plate.

    His girlfriend suffered shock and minor injuries.

    Detectives have now launched a probe into the attack and are appealing for witnesses.

    Investigating officer Det Con Nick Phillips, of Grays CID, said: “We’re looking for any audience members who may have seen the altercation inside the cinema and also anyone who may have seen the fight outside.

    “This is a highly unusual event and so would have caught the attention of passers-by.

    “The attack was a sustained one and has shocked us.”

    All of the attackers were black. One wore a black T-shirt and black jeans, while another was wore a striped T-shirt.

    One of the women wore a brown leather jacket. continues here



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    Gang assault college tutor in Bury town centre

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    A TEACHER has spoken for the first time after yobs kicked and punched him unconscious in a vicious attack in Bury town centre. 

    Bury College tutor Keith Taylor returned to work this week, more than a month after thugs left him with horrific head injuries.

    Mr Taylor had to be transferred from Fairfield Hospital in Bury to a specialist facial surgery unit at Royal Blackburn Hospital where he stayed for five days.

    He had a broken nose, a fractured cheekbone, heavy swelling and a head wound that needed three stitches. Three plates were inserted to hold his cheek in place and he is yet to undergo dental repairs.

    Now detectives have stepped up the hunt for his attackers who pounced on him in the early hours of September 26. Mr Taylor, aged 24, of Accrington, said: “It shook me up. It’s dominated my life in the last few weeks while I’ve had hospital treatment. I have hardly been out since it happened.

    “I won’t let these yobs ruin my life but they could strike again. We need them off the streets.”

    Mr Taylor, who is a sports lecturer, attended a colleague’s retirement party at a bar in Manchester city centre on Friday, September 25.

    At about 2.30am, he left the venue with two female colleagues and got into a private-hire taxi outside the Comedy Store in Deansgate Locks.

    The taxi was not booked in advance and Mr Taylor cannot remember any vehicle details. The driver dropped them off outside HSBC bank in Market Street in Bury town centre, but Mr Taylor was involved in a dispute over a demand for £37, saying it should only have been £19.

    Mr Taylor said: “A passing police officer resolved the dispute and we paid £25 and left.

    “We then walked to Kay Gardens and five Asian lads, about 20 to 25 years old, started shouting abuse at us for not paying for the taxi.

    “One spat in the face of my colleague and, when I objected, he punched me.

    “They stole my mobile phone. I don’t remember much else because it knocked me unconscious.”

    Mr Taylor’s helpless colleagues looked on as two men punched and kicked him.

    CCTV footage obtained by police shows them stamping on his head and kicking it like a football. continues here

    Heavily pregnant woman raped in her own home by gang of burglars armed with sawn-off shotgun

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    A heavily pregnant woman was raped at gunpoint in her bedroom by a gang of armed burglars who broke into her home.

    The 33-year-old victim, who was seven months' pregnant, was watching TV with her boyfriend when the balaclava-clad men forced their way into their North London home.

    Her 39-year-old boyfriend was threatened and hit around the head with the butt of a sawn-off shotgun as they demanded the keys to their Audi TT which was parked outside.

    The woman was then grabbed and forced upstairs by one of the attackers and forced to perform a sex act on him which police have described as 'oral rape'.

    He threatened to shoot the couple unless she did what he said.

    Speaking for the first time about the rape, the victim said: 'I just wanted to protect my baby. I was absolutely terrified and being so late in the pregnancy I didn't want to get into a fight where they might hurt me or my baby.

    'He (the rapist) said it was my lucky day.'

    Her boyfriend added: 'I pleaded, I was shouting, "She's pregnant, she's pregnant, leave off her, tell me what you want".'

    The men took the couple's grey Audi TT and other items including an iPod, cash, debit cards and a laptop from their Finsbury Park home on May 14 last year.

    The car was found abandoned two days later in Portland Road, near Seven Sisters Underground station.

    'Concerns for the unborn baby can only have exacerbated what was already an emotionally and physically traumatic experience.'

    He added: 'Allegiances may have changed over the last 14 months and we would urge anyone with information to contact us.

    'There is a reward on offer of up to £20,000 and I hope there are people out there who are prepared to do the right thing and tell us what they know.

    'Do you know the men who did this? Do you remember hearing anyone boasting about stealing an Audi TT around this time? We would like to hear from you.'

    The couple are still haunted by the attack.

    The female victim said: 'Everything that you believe to be safe is no longer safe. You can't walk into the bedroom and feel relaxed because you remember that someone was in there who wasn't supposed to be there.'

    The couple had been watching TV when they heard a noise outside at around 10.30pm. The boyfriend opened the front door to see what was going on.

    He saw the three men, all wearing balaclavas and scarves, at the end of the path and tried to shut the front door but the men forced their way inside and shoved him to the ground.

    The suspect who carried out the sexual assault is described as black, 6ft, aged 18 to 25 and stocky.

    He wore a black balaclava, black jacket, black tracksuit bottoms and black shoes.

    A second man was black or Asian, 5ft 6in and about 18.

    He wore light grey tracksuit bottoms, black trainers and a zip-up jacket with red sleeves.

    The third suspect, who had the gun was black, 5ft 10in, and aged between 18 and 22. He was wearing burgundy tracksuit bottoms.

    Police said they were keen to trace the men if only to eliminate them from their inquiries.

    DI Pack said he believes the men who carried out the attack either live locally or have links to the area.

    He added: 'They clearly felt comfortable committing a crime at the top end of the scale which suggests they know the area. continues here


    Editorial : So when are you going to stop this, you traitors in parliament, you who have not a care for the indigenous people of this country, how much more must we take ,how much more of your dammed experiment must you force upon us. We had a fine country once, a decent country, look what you have made for us, rape so common no-one bats an eye, murder daily and violence master of all he surveys. Your experiment is evil, truly evil and it is you with blood upon your hands, you that caused this, each and every one of you that force your agenda down the throats of the people.

    Understand this, it has been some time, some time since you imported them here, since you decided that our way of life, lived since the very beginning, must change, yet still they are not wanted, still they can never be European and still they prey upon us whilst you police only our thoughts, I very much hope that one day the people of this country rise against this evil and justice returns again to the peoples side.

    Armed robberies shoot up in South Africa ahead of World Cup

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    Armed robberies rose dramatically in South Africa last year, crime statistics released on Tuesday showed, as the country grapples with some of the highest crime rates in the world ahead of its hosting the World Cup finals.

    The murder rate, one of the highest in the world for any country not at war, stayed almost constant, at 18,148, or an average of 49.7 people killed every day, down just under two per cent.

    Sexual offences, though, rose to 71,500, almost 200 a day, an increase of 12 per cent. No separate figure was issued for rapes.

    The biggest jump in violent crime was in the statistics for armed robberies, with attacks on business premises leaping 41.5 per cent and those on houses going up 27.3 per cent.

    The fear of crime is ever-present in South Africa, and afflicts both rich and poor in a country still deeply affected by the legacy of apartheid.

    In the wealthier suburbs of the country's biggest cities those who can afford to live behind high walls and electric fences, their burglar alarms connected to armed response services who arrive within minutes of a siren sounding.

    In poorer areas, residents are known to take matters into their own hands, beating and sometimes killing suspected criminals.

    Recognising the widespread unhappiness about the phenomenon, Jacob Zuma, the populist new ANC president, has promised to make fighting crime a priority, in stark contrast to his predecessor Thabo Mbeki, who argued that people's fears were based on misperceptions.

    Nonetheless, it is an enormous task. Bheki Cele, the hardline new police commissioner, who has called for police to be allowed to "shoot to kill" criminals, said: "Am I happy, no, I'm not happy. You cannot be happy when 10 people are killed let alone 18,000." The police minister Nathi Mthethwa pointed out the murder rate had decreased slightly, but said crime in South Africa had a "uniquely violent and random character", adding that the rise in house robberies was a major concern.

    "It is one of the crimes that are the most intrusive and personalised," he said.

    "We simply cannot tolerate a situation where people do not feel safe in their homes." But the opposition Democratic Alliance accused the ANC of failing to tackle the problem, saying that the disbanding earlier this year of the Scorpions, a high-profile anti-corruption unit that had investigated several politicians, among them Mr Zuma, sent the wrong signal.

    "With the 2010 World Cup fast approaching, the usual rhetoric and empty promises must once and for all be brought to an end," said Dianne Kohler-Barnard, its shadow police minister. continues here

    POLICE ESCORTING PUPILS FROM SCHOOL

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    Thousands of pupils are receiving police escorts from school as part of a crackdown on anti-social behaviour.

    Officers are travelling on buses, waiting in potential anti-social "hotspots" and accompanying children as young as five walking home from school in "after school patrols".

    The patrols have been targeted in areas which are known to have problems with anti-social behaviour.

    To date, 65 local authorities in England have carried out 15,292 patrols, covering 1,632 primary and secondary schools, according to figures from the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF).

    Some 64,017 pupils have been spoken to by officers, the figures show, and 2,497 have been referred to other services, including drug and alcohol services, or activities in their area.

    As about 5,000 schools already have a dedicated police officer linked to them, it means many children are effectively being policed from the start of the school day, until evening.

    The DCSF said it advocated after-school patrols as an effective way to tackle anti-social behaviour at the end of the school day.

    Under the Youth Crime Action Plan, 69 areas are receiving funding totalling £765,000 between 2008/11 for a range of measures to combat anti-social behaviour. continues here

    Teen In Hospital After Carnival Stabbing

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    A 15-year-old boy is in a serious condition in hospital after being stabbed at the Notting Hill Carnival, police have confirmed.

    The young victim was found collapsed in Monmouth Road at around 7pm with multiple stab wounds.

    A London Ambulance Service spokesman said: "We treated a 15-year-old boy for assault and have taken a patient to hospital."

    Police earlier reported that the number of arrests at the carnival, Europe's largest street party, had been down on previous years.

    By 9pm, officers had made a total of 193 arrests on Sunday and Monday, compared with 227 for the same time during Notting Hill Carnival 2008.

    Among those arrested, 38 people were detained at Victoria mainline station. Police earlier reported that the number of arrests at the carnival, Europe's largest street party, had been down on previous years.

    By 9pm, officers had made a total of 193 arrests on Sunday and Monday, compared with 227 for the same time during Notting Hill Carnival 2008.


    Police believed they had travelled in specially to create disorder and arrested them "in order to prevent a breach of the peace".

    They were taken to a south London police station and released at 10pm, after the carnival had finished.

    Warm sunny weather brought an estimated 500,000 revellers out to join the raucous celebration in west London.

    Performers wearing sequins and dramatic spiralling costumes danced and drummed behind the floats making their way around a 3.5-mile route.

    They were joined by impromptu dancing in the side streets as reggae and samba beats blasted out from loud-speakers.

    It later emerged that a surprise appearance by singer Miss Dynamite was cancelled due to crowd safety fears.

    Event regulators only received notice of the performance hours before the event, making it difficult to make the necessary safety arrangements.

    A spokesman from Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea said: "It's great that Carnival can attract top talent, but we need more time to make sure that such an event can pass off safely. continues here

    It makes you think doesn’t it, no stabbings, muggings, sexual offences, organised steaming or any such activity at the BNP’s Red white and blue festival, yet all organs of the state wish to attack the event. Imposing draconian restriction and then should that not work, importing hundreds of non-local “anti-fascists” into the area to cause chaos for local people, commit vandalism and generally create misery. Yet this carnival, which attracts vast numbers of predators of all descriptions, is given the go ahead year upon year, one would be forgiven for thinking there was an agenda, wouldn’t they.

    Shakunta Kaur gets suspended sentence for benefit fraud

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    A SOUTHAMPTON woman who cheated benefits for years has narrowly avoided a jail sentence.

    Shakunta Kaur, 27, and her husband Guljar Singh, 28, repeatedly lied to claim income support, council tax benefit and housing benefit, Winchester Crown Court heard.

    Kaur unlawfully claimed £43,901 between 2001 and 2007, while her husband snaffled “She does not understand the difference between honest and dishonest behaviour.”£6,841 in jobseekers’ allowance between 2006-07, said Gareth Munday, prosecuting.

    Kaur, a mother of two children aged seven and three, pleaded guilty to two offences, while Singh admitted two others. Both defendants, of Dundee Road, Portswood, were of previous good character.

    The court heard that so far Kaur had repaid just £118. A confiscation hearing will be held to determine what should happen to some £30,000 found in Kaur’s bank account, said Mr Munday.

    Sentencing, Judge Tom Longbotham said that Kaur was close to a year-long sentence. He said that she had also lied in court to him at an earlier hearing.

    He said: “She does not understand the difference between honest and dishonest behaviour.”

    He rejected a pre-sentence report from the probation service that recommended a conditional discharge for Kaur.

    The judge sentenced Kaur to nine months in prison, suspended for two years, and imposed a supervision order.

    Singh was given a community order to do 150 hours’ unpaid work and to attend sessions with an education and employment advisor. continues here

    Italy: Citizen crime patrols to begin next week

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    Rome, 4 August (AKI) - Citizens will begin anti-crime patrols in Italian cities from next week, interior minister Roberto Maroni said on Tuesday. City mayors will decide whether to set up local patrols, and police will then vet volunteers who wish to take part, said Maroni, who belongs to the anti-immigrant Northern League party.

    "The patrols will be formed according to precise and extremely stringent criteria," Maroni told his party newspaper, La Padania.

    He said he would sign a decree authorising the patrols, which will be backed by security forces, later this week.

    Government decrees need approval by the Italian parliament within three months to become law.

    Volunteers will be carefully chosen, will be unarmed, and will receive extensive training before the anti-crime patrols start, Maroni said.

    Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's conservative government, elected last year on a promise to crack down on crime, has backed its Northern League ally's controversial plan for unarmed citizens' patrols to help police and soldiers on the streets.

    Italy's left-wing opposition and civil rights groups oppose the patrols. They fear they could be infiltrated by criminal or extremist "vigilante" elements and that racial discrimination and violence could ensue.

    But Maroni has vowed to proceed with the plan, despite concern over the possible fascist links of at least one group which is keen to participate.

    At least five people were injured and two others arrested late last month after clashes between left-wing and right-wing youth gangs in the central Italian town of Massa, reviving controversy over the planned citizen anti-crime patrols.

    Two leaders of the far-left 'Antifascist Proletariat Patrol' group were arrested after the clashes late on 25 July in the Tuscan city, when its members took to the streets against the right-wing "SSS" group which had begun self-styled patrols in the town.

    Maroni rejected any connection between the clashes in Massa and the citizen anti-crime patrols planned by the government. continues here

    British couple hacked by knife-wielding robbers in Caribbean resort island

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    A British couple were left for dead after being attacked with machetes at their Caribbean holiday home.

    Peter and Murium Green have both undergone emergency surgery following the attack in Tobago.

    The alarm was raised after Mrs Green, 59, who suffered severe facial injuries, crawled from their home into the street pleading for help. Mr Green, 65, a retired businessman, is in a serious condition in the Eric Williams Hospital on the island while his wife is stable.

    Doctors put him in an induced coma due to the severity of his head injuries. He sustained wounds to his head, face, eyes and nose during the attack.

    His wife had part of her jaw chopped off and needed at least four pints of blood.

    The Greens are understood to have been holidaying Tobago for more than seven years.

    They owned a single storey holiday home in the Bacelot area of the island which is a favourite with honeymooners.

    A Tobago police spokesman said they were attacked by two men on Saturday afternoon, with robbery the most likely motive.

    Estate agent Jason Wallace, 30, a friend of the Greens, said: 'They are a sincere and kind couple and what has transpired upon them is not only a robbery, but also outright evil.'

    The Government of Trinidad and Tobago has condemned the violent attack amid fears it will have a negative effect on tourism. The Ministry of National Security said the attack was being treated with the 'highest degree of seriousness'.

    A spokesman said: 'The Ministry has reassured the British High Commission that the police are doing everything possible to find the attackers.'

    Officials from the British High Commission are liaising with the police and have visited the Greens.

    They have also made contact with family members back in the UK.

    The brutal attack bore striking similarities to the murder of a Swedish couple on the island last year.

    Anna Sundsval, 62, and Oke Olsoon, 73, were killed after being stabbed at their home in Bon Accord. A suspect was held for the murders, but he was later released.

    Geoff Patton, the deputy British High Commissioner, said: 'My Government appreciates the concerns expressed by the Trinidad and Tobago government.

    'I know the family is receiving the best treatment possible. We are very grateful for that. What we do look forward to is the apprehension of the people who committed this horrible crime.'

    Kevin Kenny, president of the Trinidad Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Association, said the attack would have a devastating affect on people visiting the island.

    'It is absolutely and totally intolerable,' he said.

    'Tourists go to the nicest, safest places and if tourists keep getting attacked, they won't come.' A suspect was held for the murders, but he was later released.

    Geoff Patton, the deputy British High Commissioner, said: 'My Government appreciates the concerns expressed by the Trinidad and Tobago government.

    'I know the family is receiving the best treatment possible. We are very grateful for that. What we do look forward to is the apprehension of the people who committed this horrible crime.'

    Kevin Kenny, president of the Trinidad Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Association, said the attack would have a devastating affect on people visiting the island.

    'It is absolutely and totally intolerable,' he said.

    'Tourists go to the nicest, safest places and if tourists keep getting attacked, they won't come.' The island had been dubbed 'the murder capital of the Caribbean' after the murders of the Swedish couple and the raping of two British women in front of their husbands by a lone assailant at Black Rock.

    A police spokesman said crime scene investigators were still at the Greenes' property looking for evidence. It is not known if any property was stolen.

    Police spokesman Annmari Grant said: 'Investigators believe the UK nationals were attacked and "chopped" using machetes or similar weapons at their Tobago home. There are no suspects.'

    She said Mr Green was found inside the house while his wife was outside in the road where she had crawled for help. continues here

    I hope Mr and Mrs Green make a full recovery, although from this report I note that they will be terrifically scarred, for any reading this there is only one thing to say, stay home!!

    Youth charged over bleach attack

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    A 16-year-old boy has been charged with wounding after a woman was attacked with bleach in a Leeds restaurant.

    The 46-year-old had bleach thrown in her face after earlier asking a group of youths to be quiet during a showing of the new Harry Potter film.

    The boy was arrested following the incident in the city's Kirkstall Road.

    He is due to appear before Leeds Magistrates' Court later charged with wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.

    Another youth was arrested on Saturday, but has been released on police bail, pending further inquiries in relation to the incident on 26 July.continues here

    Ah multiculturalism, don’t you just love it, I mean it brings such richness, such a mix of cultures and peoples, what a boring place it would be indeed, if successive governments had not forced their agenda upon us. Why there would be less work for our law-enforcement officers, our prison-officers, our NHS staff, the myriad of drug counsellors and assorted professionals, further the anti-racism industry would be wiped out and the individuals concerned would have to get a real job, talking of industries becoming obsolete the drugs trade and all its attendant ills would be virtually wiped out as well.

    Why we couldn’t have that, so many industries going to the wall, oh its okay to destroy our manufacturing base, to ruin our car industry, engineering infrastructure, to create a service-industry nation, yet some industries, like those highlighted above, must be saved, must prosper. You see its all part of diversity, I mean would you really wish a return to a homogenous nation, to a nation, with lower crime levels, whereby we all have ancestral within Europe, where manners and respect are the order of the day and individuals whilst acting in self-interest must also act in group-interest.

    Such a boring place, I think you’ll agree, isn’t what we have now better, the crime, the disorder, the animosity, the hatred, all part of the agenda, for those who don’t know this lady was attacked for asking a group of teenagers to be quiet whilst watching a movie. Such cheek, doesn’t she know that manners are so old-fashioned, so yesterday, perhaps she deserved to potentially lose her sight, after two non-white individuals took offence, after all in this age we must all be quiet, all say nothing, least the state or those they have imported attack us or those we love, AAWR can only wish the lady a speedy recovery and best wishes to her family.

    ‘RACIAL’ WARNING FOR JEWELLER WHO BANNED GYPSIES FROM SHOP

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    POLICE have warned a jeweller for “racially offensive” conduct after he banned Romanian gypsies following a series of raids on his store.

    Michael Plant, 62, believes the east European travellers are behind the raids in which gems are snatched while other members of the gang distract staff.

    But when he placed a sign in his shop window saying that he did not serve Romanian or east European gypsies he was told by a senior police officer to take it down – or face prosecution on race-hate charges.

    Police have been unable to trace the thieves.

    Mr Plant, who has run his jewellery shop in Altrincham, Cheshire, with his Austrian wife Monika, 62, for 22 years said: “I’m not racist, but the fact is I have been targeted repeatedly by eastern European criminals.

    “I should have a right to say which people come into my shop and not face allegations of racial discrimination.

    “I should be able to choose whom I serve. That’s not just eastern Europeans – if someone comes in drunk they will not be served either.

    “All I want is a commonsense approach. The police are reactive rather than proactive to crime, they wait for it to happen before they solve it, rather than the other way round.

    “I think these Romanians and eastern European criminals are letting their fellow countrymen down. Obviously I don’t think all of them are bad, but how can I distinguish who is good and who is bad?

    “I’ve got a foreign wife and we have foreign friends. But some people coming in to this country illegally seem to have more rights than me.”

    Mr Plant made a stand after the latest theft last Saturday when a man’s gold wedding ring was stolen.

    He added: “They always say they’re Spanish, but they aren’t. I speak more Spanish than them. They use distraction techniques like a child running around and they get away with your stock. One morning I lost nine bracelets, worth well into four figures.

    “I think they must pass our name around because about every five or six weeks I get another group of people, sometimes with or without children.

    “They come in and ask for something and we usually haven’t got it. They’re quicker than Paul Daniels.”

    Following the latest incident Mr Plant called in police, then put the notice on the door on Monday. He got a warning from senior officers shortly afterwards offering him “words of advice” about the message.

    He added: “This sign was written in anger after the latest robbery. I feared we would get more in that afternoon.

    “I emailed the local police inspector to say what I had put up on the sign and I was told to take it down immediately.

    “I’ve reported incidents to the police in the past. I’ve had several robberies over the years and the capture of criminals is very low. I bet if these people are caught for stealing, they probably wouldn’t even go into a magistrates court.

    “They would just get a fixed penalty fine and that would be paid by one of the human rights organisations. The taxpayer pays for it all.”

    Police said Mr Plant had fallen foul of the Race Relations Act which recognises gypsies and travellers as ethnic groups. continues here

    You can't deport me, I'm a lesbian: Jamaican drug dealer makes human rights plea

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    A drug dealer is appealing against her deportation on the grounds it will violate her human rights as a lesbian.

    The Jamaican argues she will be persecuted for her homosexuality if she is returned to her home country at the end of her sentence.

    She had a boyfriend before her conviction for supplying class-A drugs, but has since had several same-sex lovers in prison.

    Yesterday the Court of Appeal heard that the woman, called A for legal reasons, wants to stay in the UK where she says she has found love with a fellow inmate.

    But the Home Office refuses to accept the relationship is genuine and said it was just a ruse to get her deportation order returned.

    They argue her same-sex relations were merely the result of the lack of male alternatives - similar to one of the lesbian flings depicted in prison dramas such as Bad Girls. Her case is set to cost the taxpayer tens of thousands of pounds.

    A, who is 24, was introduced to drugs by a former boyfriend, but since her conviction in 2005 she claims to have had at least six lesbian lovers.

    She says in Jamaica she faces the threat of criminal gangs who would set out to kill her because of her homosexuality.

    Her legal case is that deporting her would violate her rights to life, freedom of expression, a private life and freedom from discrimination.

    But the Home Office believes her alleged relationship is 'part and parcel of a campaign to be allowed to stay in the UK'.

    They claim that as A's alleged girlfriend is also Jamaican, there is nothing stopping the couple returning to the Caribbean and setting up home there together.

    The Court of Appeal was told that A met the woman she says she loves while they were both inmates at Downview, in Surrey.

    Carine Patry Hoskins, for the Home Office, said that it 'did not accept' that the relationship was genuine.

    She added that it was little surprise that A had been a lesbian when in prison. 'If she wanted to be sexually active, there was no other option,' she said. 'There was no other choice but celibacy.'

    A, who is fighting her case using legal aid, said she was 'lost and frightened' when she left Jamaica as a teenager, but is now more confident-about who she is.

    She says she had homosexual and heterosexual relationships before being imprisoned, but had become 'more socially confident' behind bars, and as a result, had confirmed in her mind her lesbianism.

    She is challenging her deportation notice, served earlier this year. Her barrister, S Chelvan, said that as a lesbian she would be in danger if returned to Jamaica.

    He also attacked the Home Office for withdrawing two concessions it had made to A before her asylum appeal was heard.

    Mr Chelvan said officials had agreed that if it was found she was a lesbian then she would be 'at risk' in Jamaica, and had also accepted she was in a lesbian relationship.

    He said the Home Office's behaviour was a 'public disgrace' and had 'undermined public confidence' in the immigration system. continues here

    What does it matter to us, Miss A is not from here, it is not up to the UK to protect the rights of the world, it is or should be, the responsibility of individual governments, this country is a prime destination for mules, individuals who transport drugs into this country by all means, even by the use of their own bodies. Then of course, once the drug is in the country it is dispersed down the ladder, each respective step receiving a cut, in many cases the drug is mixed with all sorts of agents, just to make a quick buck, the end result is abject misery upon the streets of this country.

    Nationalism holds a special hatred for drugs, always has, even so-called “soft” drugs have no place in our society, yet here we are talking about class-A drugs, substances with the very real potential to kill, certainly they blight our country, as do those that bring them in. A leftist would contend that the mules, drug-dealers, are victims to, generally poor, therefore forced by dint of circumstances to undertake such ventures, this holds no weight. European or European descended nations have experienced depressions, situations whereby citizens of said nations are rendered destitute, penniless and forced to survive in any way, do such people, load themselves up with drugs and head east, do they blight non-white countries and their communities, no they do not.

    Under a nationalist government there would be a huge crackdown on drugs, supplying drugs, dependent upon the type, is akin to attempted murder and would be treated as such, nations who permitted their citizens, to persistently endeavour to breach our borders, with intent to supply, would face sanction and other measures, for surely it is not the responsibility of destination countries to police foreign borders. Under a people-friendly nationalist government, drugs, as much as can be, would be eradicated from public life, of course initially our measures would be somewhat harsh, yet if we save just one life, are not our policies just? Go home Miss A…

    30,000 criminals are members of organised drugs, guns and fraud gangs

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    At least 30,000 criminals are members of organised gangs, including teenage children, a Government report has disclosed.

    Officials have produced the first detailed map of gangsters and their activity in England and Wales – including drugs, guns, fraud and people smuggling networks.

    It is estimated that around 4,000 gangs are costing the economy up to £40 billion a year.

    The joint Home Office and Cabinet Office report found that people traffickers think the UK is a soft touch when it comes to getting illegal immigrants across the border.

    Meanwhile, difficulty in securing the convictions of the Mr Bigs of the crime world has led to adopting the so-called "Al Capone" approach, by targeting criminals for tax evasion.

    A new pilot project involving officials from Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) will launch later this year aimed at increasing the number of gang bosses brought to book with tax laws.

    It said criminal gangs were using new technology to commit crime, and said the recession would create "new opportunities" for organised criminals.

    The numbers of young people joining gangs remains "real cause for concern", the report says, with children exploited as drug runners or dealers, or used as gun "minders".

    Police chiefs acknowledge that criminal networks in Britain do not resemble the "mafia" and that today's organised crime networks are "run like multi-national businesses".

    The Home Office announced a 25-point action plan to tackle serious and organised crime after the first nationwide audit of its kind revealed the sheer scale of the problem facing police.

    One police chief said that a gap has developed in the past few years between the scale of organised crime and law enforcement agencies' ability to tackle it.

    However ministers denied the new measures contained in the report were a tacit admission that the Government had taken its "eye off the ball".continues here

    BRITAIN’S SUCH A SOFT TOUCH SAY THE PEOPLE SMUGGLERS

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    CRIMINALS are convinced that Britain’s border controls are “soft” and that police are tolerant of the vice trade, according to a Home Office report that was kept secret for three years.

    the UK was regarded as having a “liberal” policy towards migrants and asylum seekers. A series of interviews with convicted sex traffickers and people smugglers in British jails revealed that they were lured here by the “healthy profits” to be made from cross-border crime.

    The foreign inmates boasted that sneaking illegal immigrants and sex-slave prostitutes into Britain was “relatively easy” and carried a “low risk of detection”.

    The research, carried out in 2006, was finally released yesterday in a report entitled: Organised immigration crime – a post-conviction survey.

    Its publication provoked a massive row, as critics claimed the disturbing findings had been suppressed.

    Tory immigration spokesman Damian Green questioned why the report had “only been made public today”.

    He said: “It is a sad fact that people engaged in the dreadful crime of human trafficking do find our borders relatively easy to cross.

    “This is one of the reasons a Conservative government would introduce a specialist Border Police Force, so that around the world criminals would know that we were toughening up Britain’s borders.”

    Sir Andrew Green, chairman of the population think tank Migrationwatch, said: “This report lifts the lid on how our border controls are perceived by those who they are meant to deter.”

    Home Office researchers interviewed 45 prisoners in British jails, all convicted of people smuggling or trafficking offences during 2005. The report said: “The picture presented by the perpetrators was of a market that conferred healthy profits with a low risk of detection.”

    Traffickers said the UK was regarded as having a “liberal” policy towards migrants and asylum seekers. They said potential profits from trafficking into the UK were “considerable” and outweighed the risks. continues here

    The most violent country in Europe: Britain is also worse than South Africa and U.S.

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    Britain's violent crime record is worse than any other country in the European union, it is revealed today.

    Official crime figures show the UK also has a worse rate for all types of violence than the U.S. and even South Africa - widely considered one of the world's most dangerous countries.

    The figures comes on the day new Home Secretary Alan Johnson makes his first major speech on crime, promising to be tough on loutish behaviour.More than ever Britain needs a change of direction...

    The Tories said Labour had presided over a decade of spiralling violence.

    In the decade following the party's election in 1997, the number of recorded violent attacks soared by 77 per cent to 1.158million - or more than two every minute.

    The figures, compiled from reports released by the European Commission and United Nations, also show:

  • The UK has the second highest overall crime rate in the EU.

  • It has a higher homicide rate than most of our western European neighbours, including France, Germany, Italy and Spain.

  • The UK has the fifth highest robbery rate in the EU.

  • It has the fourth highest burglary rate and the highest absolute number of burglaries in the EU, with double the number of offences than recorded in Germany and France.


  • But it is the naming of Britain as the most violent country in the EU that is most shocking. The analysis is based on the number of crimes per 100,000 residents.

    In the UK, there are 2,034 offences per 100,000 people, way ahead of second-placed Austria with a rate of 1,677.




    The U.S. has a violence rate of 466 crimes per 100,000 residents, Canada 935, Australia 92 and South Africa 1,609.

    Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling said: 'This is a damning indictment of this government's comprehensive failure over more than a decade to tackle the deep rooted social problems in our society, and the knock on effect on crime and anti-social behaviour.

    'We're now on our fourth Home Secretary this parliament, and all we are getting is a rehash of old initiatives that didn't work the first time round. More than ever Britain needs a change of direction.'

    The figures, compiled by the Tories, are considered the most accurate and up-to-date available.

    But criminologists say crime figures can be affected by many factors, including different criminal justice systems and differences in how crime is reported and measured.

    In Britain, an affray is considered a violent crime, while in other countries it will only be logged if a person is physically injured.

    There are also degrees of violence. While the UK ranks above South Africa for all violent crime, South Africans suffer more than 20,000 murders each year - compared with Britain's 921 in 2007.

    Experts say there are a number of reasons why violence is soaring in the UK. These include Labour's decision to relax the licensing laws to allow round-the-clock opening, which has led to a rise in the number of serious assaults taking place in the early hours of the morning.

    But Police Minister David Hanson said: 'These figures are misleading.
    Levels of police recorded crime statistics from different countries are simply not comparable since they are affected by many factors, for example the recording of violent crime in other countries may not include behaviour that we would categorise as violent crime.

    'Violent crime in England and Wales has fallen by almost a half a peak in 1995 but we are not complacent and know there is still work to do. That is why last year we published 'Saving lives. Reducing harm. Protecting the public. An Action Plan for Tackling Violence 2008-11'.' continues here

    Appeal over sex attack

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    DETECTIVES have issued a description of a man they want to speak to in connection with a serious sexual assault on a 16-year-old girl.

    The attack occurred in Rise Park at around 9.30pm on Monday, after the girl had been walking home after spending the evening with friends.

    The girl had walked over Moorbridge and along Hucknall Road before turning into the disused railway line near the junction with Bestwood Park Drive West.

    When the girl was about 100 metres along the path, a man came out of the bushes at the side of path and asked her for a light for his cigarette. After she gave him a light, the man grabbed her and pushed her to the ground before subjecting her to a serious sexual assault. He then made off towards Bestwood Park Drive West.

    The victim has described her attacker as black, about 35, and well built. She also said he was unshaven and had stubble on his face. He was dressed all in black, and was wearing a black hooded top and black leather gloves.


    She has been left extremely upset by the attack and is currently being cared for by her family.

    The area of railway track that was cordoned off yesterday afternoon has undergone a full forensic examination and has now been released by detectives.

    Detective Inspector Tim Jones, who is leading the investigation, said: "This was an unprovoked attack on a young girl walking home after spending time with friends, and she has been left deeply traumatised.

    "We want to speak to anyone who witnessed this incident or who recognises the description of this man. We also would like anyone who saw someone acting suspiciously in the area at the time of the attack or who has any information about the incident, no matter how insignificant they may think it is, to contact police immediately.continues here

    Gang rape in London

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    A couple of days ago I published a brief post from South Africa which reported that one in 4 males admitted to being rapists. But rape in the city is not just happening on a large scale in South Africa. Here in London a recent Channel 4 Dispatches documentary highlighted the prevalence of gang rape by young boys. Rape in the City was produced by award winning Sierra Leonean journalist., Sorious Samura who despite being “shot at, spat at and abused” in the making of past documentary’s was still shocked by what he found. During the war in Sierra Leone, Samura had witnessed a gang rape, something he associated with war and not what he expected to find on the streets of London.

    I felt so angry and hurt watching these young boys casually denigrate girls with their attitude and words – I find it hard to express my own feelings. Listening to a group of young boys who spoke of a “line up” where a line of boys stand in wait whilst a girl performs oral sex, was appalling. The boys did not even think there was anything wrong in setting up and coercing girls to have sex with them. For them the girls were just trash to be abused.there are a disproportionate number of young black boys involved in gang rape... Girls spoke of the horrific experience of being gang raped, one as a punishment for her comments about a friends boyfriend who was a gang leader. She was repeatedly raped by 4 or 5 boys who later called more boys to join in. The attitude of the boys was that it was the girls fault and nothing to do with them and that if a girl was amongst them then she was asking for it. On being questioned about STD’s one boy said he would ‘batter’ any girl that passed on a STD.

    In the course of my research I have been shocked to hear victims and witnesses to gang rape talk about the incidence of this crime as if it were just a fact of urban life. Girls are passed around groups of boys. Sometimes these girls initially consent because they want to be popular, but the incident then turns nasty. Sometimes a girl unwittingly walks into a trap, innocently visiting someone’s house to listen to music or watch a film and then discovering that a group of boys are laying in wait. Occasionally the gang rape is used to punish a girl for talking out of turn……….

    And yet in the course of my Dispatches investigation I have discovered that gang rape is becoming part of the fabric of life for some young people living in our cities. But it’s not gang rape as you might imagine – it’s not, in most cases, the seizing of girls off the streets by total strangers. It’s happening in homes and at parties between young people who are known to each other, who run in the same crowds. And what’s most disturbing to me is that it’s often just the result of a group of boys deciding to force sex on an unwitting girl, who doesn’t realise that the invitation to someone’s house to watch DVDs or to hang out in the local park is a set up for gang rape. It can happen because a group of boys is attracted to a particular girl or just because she has annoyed one of them.

    It is again shocking to learn that gang rape is not even recognised as a separate criminal offence and each rapist is tried as having committed an individual crime. It’s also clear from his report that the police are less than enthusiastic about dealing with rape particularly when it happens in the Black community. Only a few police forces even bothered to respond to his requests for statistics on rapes and rape convictions. The London Metropolitan Police did provide records that showed 108 gang rapes[3 or more rapists] were reported in London in 2008 – from that alone its not exaggerating to state that the actual gang rapes are probably at least double that. Three quarters of the convicted rapists were young black men…

    On the face of it, these figures may appear small, but they are nevertheless statistically significant when you consider that nearly three quarters of those convicted were black. Why the incidence should be higher amongst young black men I do not know, but the stats speak for themselves, and on the ground youth workers and community leaders confirmed our conclusions. Sheldon Thomas, a Brixton youth worker, acknowledges that there are a disproportionate number of young black boys involved in gang rape, and it’s something that’s of real concern to him, ‘because we’ve got a situation in our community that needs to be addressed. And I don’t believe that we are addressing it’.

    But whilst I would agree that we need to address the disproportionate incidence within the black community, I think it would be wrong to label this as a black issue. What we need is for people from across all communities and public sectors to engage with this issue, and colour must not get in the way of that.

    The silence around these crimes allows them to continue with impunity. The silence of the police who do not offer protection to those few young girls and women who report rape. One young girl in the programme reported the rape but had to withdraw the charges after she was threatened, had bottles and objects thrown at her by the rapists. Why was she and her family not protected. How is she supposed to live in the same community where she has to pass these young men daily? Women have always been at the forefront in the movement against violence against women. Is it not about time for men to take a stand against rape? Not just Black men but all men. The responsibility to protect young girls and take an uncompromising stand against misogyny and rape on estates, the streets and in the playground has to come from the local authorities, the police, the schools and the community. .continues here