So Much For 'Learning Lessons'

 The police farce that failed so badly over the Nottingham killer has been at it again:

Police failed to warn the families of three Nottingham attack victims that a mentally ill man obsessed with the case had been hunting for them – and allegedly played down the danger he posed.

The man, who had been sectioned and referred to the Government's Prevent programme over extremism, travelled to Somerset in an attempt to locate the families of victims Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar. He had also visited the GP surgery of Dr Sanjoy Kumar, Grace's father, after claiming he knew of a 'cover-up' surrounding the June 2023 attacks.Yet Barnaby's parents Emma and David were not told about the man's journey for 18 months, while the family of Ian Coates, the 65-year-old school caretaker also murdered by triple killer Valdo Calocane, say they were never officially informed.

This mystery man isn't named or pictured anywhere, so it seems we can be confident he's not white English, since that's not the sort of madman our two-tier police and NHS fall all over themselves to protect these days....but just like Calocane, he's wracked up quite a career: 

The man was later sectioned after threatening ambulance workers in London before absconding from hospital last October. Police eventually told the Webbers he was on the run, but failed to disclose his history of threatening behaviour or his fixation with the Nottingham killings.

Emma Webber said it was 'profoundly upsetting' that her family had been left without any safeguarding advice, particularly as her other son Charlie was attending school nearby. She added that the police briefing was 'fundamentally misleading' and said: 'We have been denied the right to protect ourselves.'

You'd be denied it anyway. God forbid you take measures in self defence that harmed a hair on the lunatic's head, you'd feel the full force of the law then! 

According to The Times, Nottinghamshire Police has referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct, which is already investigating failures surrounding the Nottingham attacks.The IOPC has apologised for not informing the families about its dealings with the man.

And no doubt that's the only apology you'll ever get. 

This Is No Way To Shed The 'Two Tier' Shame...

I'm beginning to think the Met Police's PR team contains some saboteurs:

The Metropolitan Police will not investigate the harassment of national treasure Dame Helen Mirren by a pro-Palestine activist, according to reports. The Oscar-winning actress, 80, was called an 'evil Zionist b****' by Corbynista Tom Carroll as she walked along the street in London with her husband, Taylor Hackford. 

Scotland Yard initially treated last year's incident as a possible hate crime, but have since decided not to proceed with the investigation.

 Why? 

It is understood the decision was taken after officers spoke to Dame Helen, who has long been outspoken in her support for Israel.

I feel they are trying to imply that she doesn't want the fuss, but they should say that if so. Or remind themselves that this is the UK and people don't have to 'press charges' here and do the job they are paid to do... 

Especially when the perp is a known danger to women:

In 2018, Carroll was wanted in connection with a brutal assault on an 84-year-old woman at Shoreditch High Street station in east London whilst he was on his way from a violent far-Left protest. Five years later he handed himself in to police in 2023 where he pleaded not guilty but was sentenced to 12 months' probation & 200 hours' community service for the lesser crime of threatening behaviour.

So, he got let off, and I could understand the police's frustration with that, but it's not a reason not to do their part. 

 

It's Not 'Too Hard' To Reverse Direction, Actually...

Gaby Hinsliff takes the field to defend anti racism training, because of course she does...

The two families have never met but are bonded both in grief and in a desire to avoid what Webber called “political grandstanding”.

The two families referred to being Hanry Nowak's and Barnaby Webber's, victim of Valdo Calocane. United not just by the loss of a family member, but by betrayal of the establishment in dealing with the crime.

There is no way back from this madness without acknowledging hard truths. Calocane was sectioned and discharged four times, and two of his doctors testified that race hadn’t influenced those decisions. But Dr Jonathan Gibson – who saw Calocane four months before the killings, and now believes he should have pushed for his patient to be forcibly medicated – testified that he had been repeatedly told psychiatry was “institutionally racist” and too coercive, especially with young black men, adding that he was “viscerally” aware of the argument and “I do not believe it had no bearing on VC’s care”.

Not do most people. 

If professionals are now questioning their own judgments and assumptions, then that’s healthy and necessary – and I say that as a writer who has had to learn how to do it. But it’s also undeniably difficult, forcing people in already complex, pressured careers such as policing and medicine to work with what can only be described as a bewildering number of mental tabs constantly open – including the idea, expressed in police guidance now being reviewed by government, that fairness isn’t necessarily treating everyone the same.

Give us an ecxample then! 

(Reading a deaf suspect their rights like anyone else is equal treatment, for example, but it’s not fair if they can’t hear you.)

That's clearly the case, because they are physically incapable - so are you saying that black people are physically incapable of obeying the law and refraining from murder!? I can hardly believe it! 

Though a consultant psychiatrist should be capable of exceedingly fine judgments, it’s a big ask of an 18-year-old security guard on minimum wage or a rookie police constable straight out of sixth form. Walking these high wires takes skilled and supportive management, and better diversity training, not less.

Oh, bless them! What sort of 'better diversity training'?  

If any professional has been too squeamish, then the takeaway is that kneejerk assumptions either way are dangerous and need confronting, not that the legacy of the Macpherson report on racism in policing needs dismantling, as Farage is now arguing. The lesson of Henry Nowak’s awful death is not that Stephen Lawrence’s has somehow ceased to matter, but that lessons must be learned from both.

Ding Ding Ding! Lefty Buzzword Bingo in play! 

'I'm from the Travelling community.'

 Oh, is that supposed to be an excuse for going on a rampage in the West End last Christmas, killing one man and bringing terror to all the others? Or is it a coded pleas for clemency? 

He said he was 'not a madman' and his brain must not have been 'in the right state' because he had been attacked.

Yes, he mowed down innocent pedestians returning from church and evenings out but it's totes OK, because he's a victim!  

Mr Aylett KC told jurors Gilheaney has six convictions for dangerous driving between 2012 and 2023 and two for driving whilst disqualified. Gilheaney said: 'I've been disqualified for as long as I can remember in my whole life since I was ever old enough, or before the age, to own a driving licence. I have been disqualified since the age of 14.'

Thus proving what use a disqualification that tsn't monitored for compliance is worth in our justice system. 

Gilheaney, of Harlow, Essex, denies murder and three counts of attempted murder following the collision in Shaftesbury Avenue, shortly after midnight on December 25. He also denies wounding with intent for getting out of his car and attacking a man. He admits dangerous driving, causing death by driving whilst disqualified and possession of a bladed article in a public place.

And so we waste more taxpayer cash and jurors' time.... 

'To say that the defendant had been driving like a maniac is simply a gross understatement,' Mr Aylett KC said. 'Instead, he was using his car as a weapon.'

Cops who went to this incident must have feared an Islamist attack. So why wasn't he shot at the scene by the armed polivce that were sent, thus saving the taxpayer the farce of a trial?