Murder Inc. #31 (Mar 08)

• My amateur effort to keep track of the murdered body count in this "scepter'd Isle" since July 3rd 2007, as the government and the liberals insist that crime figures are falling and there is no need to look again at sentencing policy. 

My sources are the BBC News sites which do not necessarily report every homicide on the main regional bulletins, so this is not an exhaustive list. However, quite often, several months later, the accused appear in court and that is often reported so I pick up some cases which passed me by at the time.  For my purposes, men and women are 17+ years and children are 16- years.

TOTAL SINCE 3/7:  392 men:  130 women:  57 children:

CODES: EN= England, SC=Scotland, NI=Northern Island, WA=Wales.

In this, the last half of March, we have an example of a father stabbing his son, a 16-year old slashing the throat of a 14-year old, an elderly man of 71 strangling a woman of 68 and a man hunted down by a gang in Birmingham and deliberately executed by shooting. "Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime"! Yeees, quite!

Mar 17th - Mar 31st

• EN: W'hampton: Man 26 shot in pub
• EN: London: Woman 23, dead in cellar with neck injs
• EN: Durham: Man 21, fight in pub, man 18 arr.
• SC: Glasgow: Man 29 dead in flats following fire
• EN: Norwich: Man 61, heart attack after street fight, man 18 arr.
• EN: Frinton: Man 61 stabbed, woman 59 arr.
• EN: Bursley: Woman 19, head injs, behind house, 3 men, 1 woman arr.
• EN: Blyth: Man 44 died in hosp, woman 45 critical, asault, man 20 arr.
• NI: Belfast: Man 51, former IRA, beaten to death, man 20 arr.
• EN: Northfleet: Man 36, assault (2/12) died 16/12, man 35 in court
• EN: Newtown: Man 27 hunted down, deliberately shot/executed
• EN: Sudb'y Hill: Man 41 inj outside tube st. died in hosp., man 36 arr.
• EN: Bolton: Man 32 attacked in street, man 41 arr.
• EN: Harlow: Man 34, assault outside pub, died in hosp, 3 men arr.
• EN: Petersf'd: Woman 44, mother of one, multiple stabs, man 45 arr.
• EN: Hackney: Man 30s, cashing up in shop stabbed by gang of 3 men.
• NI: Dungannon: Man 30s assaulted, man 21 arr.
• SC: Inverness: Man 17, serious injs, died in hosp, man 17 arr.
• EN: Horsham: Woman found dead in flat, man arr.
• EN: Byker: Man 19 killed by gang wielding planks of wood, 3 men sought
• SC: Methil: Woman 21, no details, man 24 arr.
• EN: Norwich: Man 19 stabbed at home (30/7/07), father 52 chgd.
• WA: Hengoed: Man 42 stabbed in house, man 18 arr.
• EN: Frankley: Man 38 stabbed in pub died in hosp,
• EN: Headington: Man 43 stabbed outside pub, man 25, woman 21 arr
• EN: Sunderl'd: Man 19 asault in city centre, dies in hosp, man 18 arr
• EN: West Kilburn: Boy 14 throat slashed, boy 16 arr.
• EN: S. Newington: Man 17 stabbed, man 20, woman 22 arr.
• EN: Hawkesley: Boy 16 stabbed by man 29
• SC: Dundee: Boy 23 mths, death by neglect, Man/woman 22 arr
• EN: W'hampton: Woman 18/19, body found
• EN: T'bridge Wells: Man 40s inj in street, died in hosp, 2 men arr
• EN: Penwortham: Boy 13 mths (23/7/07) nanny charged
• EN: Leytonstone: Woman 68 strangled at home, man 71 arr
• EN: Bethn'l Gr'n: Woman 30s, killed in car smash by 2 men chased by police

Against all experience and hope, the little girl missing for over 3 weeks has been found alive so my child murder statistic has been adjusted downwards, but fear not, there have been a further two in the first 2 weeks of this murdering month of March!  Included is an incident which appears to indicate that security on the Queen's highway has reverted to medieval times with a woman on a bicycle having a verbal dispute with 4 women in a car who promptly got out and stabbed her to death.  Well, I suspect they were frightfully common people so the posh educated liberals won't turn a hair let alone change the law.

Mar 1st - Mar 16th

• EN: M'chester: Man 25 stabbed, men 66, 70 arr (beware pensioners!)
• EN: Enfield: Man 30 stabbed during argument, man 62 arr.
• EN: Doncaster: Man dead in drive, woman 39 arr.
• EN: N'castle: Man 22 stabbed 13/2 died in hosp, 2 men arr.
• EN: Deptford: Man 17, stabbed last week dies in hosp, Man 18 arr.
• EN: Warrington: Man 19, head injs, gang fight dies in hosp, man 23 arr.
• EN: Workington: Man dead in car at docks, police suspicious
• EN: Edmonton: Boy 16 attacked 2 weeks ago, dies of head injs.
• EN: Tipton: Man 39 shot, died in hosp, man 36 arr.
• EN: Burnley: Man 50, stabbed trying to stop fight in park, man 20, boy 16 arr.
• EN: Poole: Woman (?) killed by arson fire at house, son 49 arr.
• EN: Plymouth: Man 30 found dead in stairwell in Dec, police say murder
• EN: Hull: Man 24 stabbed during ass in car park, man 23 arr.
• EN: Torpoint: Baby 1 mth, head inj, died in hosp, man 30 arr.
• SC: E'burgh: Woman (?) dead in flat, susp death, man 37 arr.
• EN: Hackney: Man 43 stabbed in street, woman 40 arr.
• EN: M'chester: Woman 25 killed at home, man 25 arr.
• EN: Fakenham: Man 60 stabbed at home, man 40 Arr.
• EN: Skegby: Woman 71 beaten to death at home, neighbour man 43 arr.
• EN: L'pool: Man 17 killed in fight between Somalis, 2 men 21, 22 arr.
• EN: B'pool: Man 40 stabbed in leg died of septicaemia, woman 29 arr.
• EN: L'pool: Woman on bike stabbed by 4 women in car
• EN: Stockwell: Man 19 shot, died in hosp
• EN: Edmonton: Man 18, beaten/stabbed to death in his mother's flat
• EN: L'pool: Man 64 killed by arson fire at home
• EN: T'side: Man 33 stabbed (Oct 07) for bad debt, killer gets 15 yrs
• EN: Newark: Woman 26, head injs, died in hosp, man 39 arr.
• EN: Icklefield: Man, headless & handless found near garage block

• By providing these bare details I hope to impress on you that these are not just statistics but were real human beings with families, friends and a future before them - just like me and you, really!

• My amateur effort to keep track of the murdered body count in this "scepter'd Isle" since July 3rd 2007, as the government and the liberals insist that crime figures are falling and there is no need to look again at sentencing policy. 

Comments

[Mack Daddy]

597 people murdered in 6 months?

One reason to detest the British.

[David Duff]

Just as facile and just as wrong as your first comment here, 'MD', but glad to note your consistency. The overwhelming majority of the British public neither support nor condone the current murder rate. Indeed, if their politicians actually heeded them the death penalty would return and the murder rate would drop to general acclamation.