Avon and Somerset Police said the incident would be referred to the policing watchdog due to 'prior police contact with those involved'.
That's getting to be a very familiar phrases, lately...
A woman living nearby said: 'We didn't see much of (the suspect) really, but there had been rows in the past about parking.'
I fondly remember the time when a parking dispute would have meant frosty looks in the street or maybe a scrap between the men of the house, not a home invasion and the murder of him and his wife in front of their children.
Anyone else?
'Two young children were inside the property at the time of the incident and while thankfully they weren't hurt, they are understandably distressed at what has happened.
'They are being looked after and specially trained officers have been deployed to support the victim's families in what is undoubtedly the most difficult of times.'
What a pity 'specially trained officers' weren't deployed to prevent the incident...
He added: 'We will carry out a full and thorough investigation and we will do all we can to achieve justice for the victim's families.'
'While this appears to be an isolated incident, there will be increased police activity in the area to provide the community with reassurance.
'Incidents like this are very rare... '
Incidents like this are getting more common, the community has no reason to feel reassured and 'justice' is often the very last thing that the system serves up for the families.
So...what's the point of you, again?
The description of the 2016 housing development - narrow roads and very little parking - suggests it was designed with the aim of ‘nudging’ residents to use public transport (we have many such developments locally which were designed with that explicit aim, approved by a council which has caused chaos in town by allocating minimal parking for new council and NHS offices).
ReplyDeleteMy sister briefly lived in a small close of this sort where there was a single parking space allocated to each house (plus a garage too small to accommodate anything larger than a micro mini - I could, with difficulty, park a Focus in there but it meant I had to climb out of the car window). Most people were reasonable but one couple, with their grown-up son and their friends, regularly commandeered the three communal spaces allowed for visitors (hence my garage acrobatics) and made it very clear they were not open to negotiation, even when they extended this to occupying their neighbours’ allotted places.
Having experienced the resulting tension, albeit at second hand, I can only say I’m surprised that something like this has not happened before.
@Macheath,
ReplyDeleteIt isn't only new developments. My house was built in 1962, and there's only one parking space in front of the garage, and the garage is too small for a car. My next-door neighbour on one side has 4 cars, and a van, whereas on the other side, just 4 cars. To be fair, we have 2, and one is squeezed in on what used to be a front garden, so is off the road.
I still live in amazement at some urban roads in the suburbs of London, built towards the end of the 19th Century, where there is room to park on both sides of the road and still have room for two cars moving in opposite directions to pass in what is left of the road.
I also sometimes deliver political leaflets. One road that is on my round has 19 houses, only one of which has a garage or any off road parking. I deliver in the middle of the day, and make a point of counting the parked cars. I have never counted less than 23. Overnight, no doubt it's a lot more.
A question to my mind is that if they were all electric, and charged overnight, the pavement would be impassible, even if the supply could cope.
Specially trained officers will come round after the event and talk about some kind of justice, but you're not allowed to keep a shotgun in the house to prevent the need for justice in the first place, even if you get specially trained in it's use.
ReplyDeleteIt baffles me why us English would prefer to be dead than consider deadly force as an option (present company excluded, I'm sure)
I can understand that houses that were built in the early nineteen sixties might be short on parking spaces, back then not everyone owned a car. Nobody would have expected that families would have needed enough space to park three. That more modern houses have insufficient parking has to be down to deliberate malice.
ReplyDeleteAs with any anti-police headline you have to dig a little deeper. If I arrest someone and bail him/her and that person dies of any cause within 24 hours then I get investigated. Run over, heart attack, struck by lightening...it's all the police's fault.
ReplyDeleteJaded
"That more modern houses have insufficient parking has to be down to deliberate malice."
ReplyDeleteYes, chalk up another degradation of modern life to the Ecofreaks. Its the green b*llocks that has determined that modern housing estates can only have limited parking spaces per house, as the inhabitants are supposed to use public transport, cycle paths or walk instead. When the reality is that not only are there multiple cars per household, guess what, people actually visit their friends and family using cars too! So these modern housing estates are crammed to the gunnels with cars with nowhere to park. Of course the housing developers don't care about all this, not having to supply sufficient parking spaces means they get to cram more houses per acre into their developments, so they won't push back against the planners eco-freakery. They just take the money and run, and leave the poor house buyers to deal with the pile of sh*t they have designed and built.
"...designed with the aim of ‘nudging’ residents to use public transport..."
ReplyDeleteLots of these springing up around my area too. With all the problems you'd expect from such a bonkers idea.
"My house was built in 1962, and there's only one parking space in front of the garage, and the garage is too small for a car. "
Not sure when this development was built (probably 50s) but I could - just - get my old Jaguar Sovereign in the garage. So long as I didn't want to get out of the car, it lacking a sunroof!
"A question to my mind is that if they were all electric, and charged overnight, the pavement would be impassible, even if the supply could cope."
And in rather more 'vibrant' areas, there'd be a lot more electrocutions!
"It baffles me why us English would prefer to be dead than consider deadly force as an option (present company excluded, I'm sure)"
Me too. Look at that recent case in Texas.
"Nobody would have expected that families would have needed enough space to park three."
A glance at the way demographics were going would have clued them in, surely?
"If I arrest someone and bail him/her and that person dies of any cause within 24 hours then I get investigated. Run over, heart attack, struck by lightening...it's all the police's fault."
A bit like 'Covid deaths', then?
"...the reality is that not only are there multiple cars per household, guess what, people actually visit their friends and family using cars too! "
You can understand the green fruitcakes not understanding that. They don't have any friends!