Ban BBC Documentaries, You Know It Makes Sense!

A BBC documentary about a Bristol murder made one viewer so angry he sent out a call to action on the internet asking people to attack a pub – and they did.

Or maybe ban the Internet? You just know someone somewhere’ll go for that…

But just what was this inciting documentary?

Scott Ryan watched Scenes from a Teenage Killing on BBC Four in January, a programme about the death of his friend Shevon Wilson.

Shevon had been stabbed to death outside the World's End Pub in St George in 2009.

That particular incident can be read about here:

James Patrick, prosecuting, said “handsome, polite and well-mannered” Shevon was out with friends on the night in question and the landlord had told some people outside the premises to stop sitting on his Jaguar.

The court heard that, later, Lengfeld left the pub and swore at Shevon, telling him to “get off the car” and Shevon told him a polite request would have been better, and advised Lengfeld to go back inside.

So, now we know (and check out the chavtastic comment thread!) the sort of people we are dealing with…

Bristol Crown Court was told that after taking exception to comments made in the programme by the landlord of the World's End, Ryan went onto social networking site Facebook and invited people to join a group called "Burn down the World's End".

Around 13 people joined the group that night, and in the early hours of the next day the pub's windows were smashed.

Clearly, none of the lowlife scum could read properly, or they’d have brought some matches…

Punishment? Why, no. Of course not:

The Recorder of Bristol His Honour Judge Neil Ford QC handed him a 52-week jail term, suspended for two years, with £500 compensation and £340 court costs.

I must try and catch this on a rerun, as it's too late for iPlayer, see if I come over all arson-y as a result…