An anti-gang campaigner who abandoned London to escape urban violence was stabbed to death in a suspected gang brawl in Cambridge.Not a literary man, I guess..?
Mr Brown, who left Brixton, South London, for a more 'peaceful life' was enjoying a night out with two friends in Cambridge when he was attacked and left to die by the side of the road.Have they, by George…?
The DJ and rapper’s two friends were rushed to hospital with serious injuries and have since been helping police with their inquiries.
So, did this come out of the blue, in a quiet leafy Cambridge neighbourhood?
… local councillor Sheila Stuart warned that cramped conditions and fears over drug dealing on the Hanover Court estate, where Mr Brown died, has stopped neighbours from talking to police.Ah. I guess not.
She said drug dealing was rife on the estate and called on police to help clean up the area.You don’t? Really?
'It’s a very dense living environment, everyone is on top of each other and residents are loath to report because they feel they will be under threat.
'I don’t know if drugs and anti-social behaviour are related…
… but there’s a very serious problem and it really destroys the lives of the people who are trying to lead decent lives there.'Doesn’t sound as though there’s very many of them, does it?
How do you reduce crime by circa 70% and increase government revenue by many billions? The answer is to legalise drugs and prostitution and tax it.
ReplyDeleteI briefly taught in a school not a million miles from Hanover Court; it was there that I indirectly ran into one Mr H, who started up a Saturday class for afro-carribean boys who were underachieving at school.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the garbled version of his words that reached me via pupils, white teachers were deemed racist if they put black pupils in detention or singled them out for criticism of their appearance. Accusations were rife, as pupils gleefully exploited this new way to settle old scores.
The end result was staff unwilling to impose discipline of any sort - much to the chagrin of those parents trying to instil high standards in the face of overwhelming peer pressure; hard-working people who watched helplessly as their children educational opportunities they themselves had never had.
Those parents must now be grandparents - and I suspect they are the ones still trying to lead decent lives in Hanover Court, and wondering where it all went wrong.
oops - missed a word; it's 'wasted'.
ReplyDelete"The answer is to legalise drugs and prostitution and tax it."
ReplyDeleteIt'll never happen. Not here.
"According to the garbled version of his words that reached me via pupils, white teachers were deemed racist if they put black pupils in detention or singled them out for criticism of their appearance. "
/facepalm
Thus setting himself up for a never-ending stream of 'customers' as the rot spreads...
"...cramped conditions and fears over drug dealing..."
ReplyDeleteMy vibrancy and diversity meter just spluttered into life.