Waking up this morning, I half-expected to switch on the news to find parts of Southport in flames after yesterday's atrocity.
Six children are fighting for their lives in hospital, as are two adults, who police said 'bravely tried to protect them' from the attack at the Hart Space Studios.
Businessman Jonathan Hayes was among those who tried to intervene. He was stabbed in the leg as he tried to disarm the knifeman after running to help when he heard the piercing screams from his office. Footage has since emerged of paramedics treating injured children as people spilled out onto the quiet street 'screaming' and 'in tears'.
A 17-year-old boy, from Banks, remains in custody after being arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder.
Does anyone else feel, as I do, that that 'from Banks' is just another thumb in the eye? And we will eventually find out this monster is from somewhere else entirely?
The hooded attacker allegedly arrived at the location in a taxi, exited the vehicle without paying and then entered the studio through the unlocked front door, The Telegraph reports. It's understood that the door was left open amid the scorching heat.
We can no longer leave doors open anymore. What the hell has happened to this country?
Detectives are still trying to establish the motive for this 'tragic incident', adding: 'We would urge people not to speculate while the investigation is ongoing.' The force said that the incident was not being treated as 'terror-related' and that they are 'not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident'.
So we are expected to believe that they don't know the motive yet but they DO know immediately what it isn't?
Already being reported in the legacy media that he is from Rwanda, arrived hered aged 6.
ReplyDeleteI've argued elsewhere that we should drop 'terrorism' as a label for unacceptable crime.
ReplyDeleteThis is not to hide the ethnic heritage of perpetrators (speech should be free, after all) but to reduce the status of terrorist bombings and stabbings to 'mere' crimes. It's a bigger task for the chatterati to excuse crime than 'freedom fighting'.
"I've argued elsewhere that we should drop 'terrorism' as a label for unacceptable crime."
ReplyDeleteUnacceptable crime as distinct from ... acceptable crime? Had he only knifed one child, that would perhaps have been acceptable?
"Does anyone else feel, as I do, that that 'from Banks' is just another thumb in the eye? And we will eventually find out this monster is from somewhere else entirely?"
ReplyDeleteThat the police felt the need for over-hasty remarks about "not terrorism related" and "not looking for anyone else" would certainly seem to point in that direction.
"Already being reported in the legacy media that he is from Rwanda, arrived hered aged 6."
ReplyDeleteOther reports seem to be insisting he was born here in Cardiff. Seems you can take the people out of Rwanda but you can't take Rwanda out of the people, regardless.
" It's a bigger task for the chatterati to excuse crime than 'freedom fighting'."
Oh, never underestimate their ability to excuse any sort of atrocity if it suits them!
"That the police felt the need for over-hasty remarks about "not terrorism related" and "not looking for anyone else" would certainly seem to point in that direction."
It's become a hallmark of these events, hasn't it? And what a reflection on where we are, that there's enough of them to HAVE hallmarks.