Tim Smits, 32, confronted a gang abusing pensioners and a pregnant woman on a London bus but was stabbed in the leg and stomach, and hit in the head in the daylight attack.
Yesterday, Islington council awarded its heroic resident Olympics tickets in recognition of his actions.
Although he says he would “do it again”, Mr Smits believes the yobs would have been frightened off if more passengers had backed him up.
Perhaps they would, perhaps they wouldn’t. Are you really surprised that no-one wants to take that gamble?
Mr Smits said: “It’s about power in number - the more people who step into help, the better.
“If three or four people on the bus would have backed me up, would he have stabbed them all?
“More people would have need to help, rather than leave to one person’s shoulders.”
Sadly, Tim,
successive lessons learned about these sort of events have taught us to be
herds, rather than
packs.
Sanchez Brown, 19, from Hackney, pleaded guilty to GBH with intent to wound and is being sentenced on 5 July at Snaresbrook Crown Court.
Blake Mehmet, also 19 and from Hackney, pleaded guilty to a public order offence and was jailed for four months at the same court last month.
And Blake is probably already back out on the streets! I doubt he’ll have long to wait for Sanchez to join him, either…
Oh yes, and suddenly the poor little darlings you stood up to are the misunderstood victims of society and it's you getting nicked.
ReplyDeleteAll very puzzling. These two 19-year-olds have presumably lived in Multiculti-Socialist-Nirvana Britain their whole lives: surely they should be model citizens? All that Progressive goodness must have influenced their development, after all!
ReplyDeletePuzzling point no.2: isn't carrying a knife against the law? I'm pretty sure I've heard Representatives of The State say various things to that effect. And I do know that stabbing someone is definitely against the law.
So how can these model citizens (brought up in Multiculti-Socialist-Nirvana Britain, let's not forget) not respect teh law? Or, for that matter, other people?
It's almost as if all that Progressive 'let's indulge scumbags rather than punish them' stuff doesn't work! What a mad thought!
"I Think The Answer Is ‘Because They Don’t Want To Get Stabbed’, Tim…"
ReplyDeleteIt is only part of the answer when schizoid plod will arrest a citizen doing his duty on one day yet compliment identical action on another.
The problem is victim disarmament.
ReplyDeleteAre there two people using the moniker 'Robert the Biker' on this site? Because in a previous post, you were all in favour of 'the poor little darlings you stood up to are the misunderstood victims of society and it's you getting nicked',
ReplyDeleteKusabi: No I don't have a sockpuppet, they were quite different cases I believe
ReplyDelete"...suddenly the poor little darlings you stood up to are the misunderstood victims of society and it's you getting nicked."
ReplyDeleteYes indeed, there's that to think of, as well.
"These two 19-year-olds have presumably lived in Multiculti-Socialist-Nirvana Britain their whole lives: surely they should be model citizens?"
Amazingly not, I guess they are just aberrant examples?
"The problem is victim disarmament."
It's part of it, yes.
You lot don't know shit It weren't like it was said no pensioners got abused this is some ones life locked up for longer because of some dick head reporter making up a bullshit over exajurated story of the events what really happend suck your mum
ReplyDeleteThings are always over exajurated I know Sanchez and he would not abuse a pensioner Tim got involved in a argument between sanchez Blake and someone else you don't do that in hackney if it's got nothing to do with you
ReplyDeletePs don't listen to what you read the press are full of shit
ReplyDeleteOh, look, the illiterate, abusive defenders of the poor 'real victim in the case' have arrived!
ReplyDeleteGosh, they teach them how to use Google so young these days, don't they? I wish they'd have a crack at spellcheck too.
Tell me, when trying to prove that the press have got it all wrong, do you think it helps or hinders your cause to suggest those discussing it go 'suck their mum'?
Who's illiterate madam I could proberly spell words better than you and actually know what they mean.
ReplyDeleteI'm alot more sophisticated than you about '' spell check'' you proberly need a breath check'' you brushed your teeth recently.
The press are full of rubbish because all the do is add things Into the real story like the time me and your mum was at it in the car and we got caught and the press said we were dogging, well me and your mum like privacy actually.
It's just a case of stereo typical criticism and selfishness. Have a good day madam
I have to say your protestations about being able to spell and use spellcheck properly are given the lie by, well, all the errors...
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