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Henry Webster, just 15 at the time, was left fighting for his life after being repeatedly punched, kicked and hit with the sharp end of a claw hammer by a gang of Asian youths on the tennis courts at Ridgeway School in Wroughton, near Swindon, Wiltshire. The victim has been left with brain damage and suffers from short-term memory loss and blackouts.
Mr Webster, now 18, insisted the attack was racially motivated and claimed there was a negligent failure by the school, which denied liability, to maintain proper discipline. He claimed at the High Court that politically correct teachers were to blame because they had been afraid to deal with racial tensions in the school. Teachers were too anxious about being seen as bigoted to intervene, but white pupils were branded 'racist' by the acting headmaster and given harsher punishments, it was said. One pupil was disciplined for wearing an England football shirt.
Mr Webster was struck with such force that an inch-deep imprint of the hammer was left on his skull, which fractured in three places. The gang then ran off whooping and shouting 'we've done it'.
Twelve youths, including Wasif Khan, 18, and Amjad Qazi, 19, were jailed for carrying out the attack at Bristol Crown Court in 2008.
Right, fire away.
Mr Webster, now 18, insisted the attack was racially motivated and claimed there was a negligent failure by the school, which denied liability, to maintain proper discipline. He claimed at the High Court that politically correct teachers were to blame because they had been afraid to deal with racial tensions in the school. Teachers were too anxious about being seen as bigoted to intervene, but white pupils were branded 'racist' by the acting headmaster and given harsher punishments, it was said. One pupil was disciplined for wearing an England football shirt.
Mr Webster was struck with such force that an inch-deep imprint of the hammer was left on his skull, which fractured in three places. The gang then ran off whooping and shouting 'we've done it'.
Twelve youths, including Wasif Khan, 18, and Amjad Qazi, 19, were jailed for carrying out the attack at Bristol Crown Court in 2008.
Right, fire away.
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It's coming, guaranteed !!! I would say possibly in 3 years time it's going to happen ...
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Attacks like this are too horrendous to even contemplate the races involved.Though needless to say if this was white on black there'd be some horrific public handwringing on a stephen lawrence-esque level.
Yo can just imagine the bleeding heart teachers uttery unable to come to terms that asians could be just as racist to whites as the other way around. I'm not sure what the sentences were but surely this was attempted murder? |
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worst was done for abh, got 8 yrs, this was just the compensation case
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He should get criminal injuries compensation at least.
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mate i went to school with was beaten to death by asians outside a chip shop
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it sounds racially motivated to me....but of course there is no such thing a racially motivated attack when its Asians on white
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the compensation was sought from the school on the grounds of negligence, lawyers didn't win their arguement
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den - whatever it sounds like to you, your second sentence is factually incorrect.
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of course!
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Five years ago i was beaten up outside my house by a gang of up to ten asians right on the stroke of midnight on bonfire night,the b astards were never caught,but i got a good whack compensation.
I am moving out of the area in a couple of weeks,after 21 years.totally full of asians,some are not so bad,but there is some right low life s**on the street corners every night. |
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i dont know why anybody complains because its what they want. the vast majority of working class whites want a racial war and will be rubbing their hands with glee if it happens.
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The asian lads will in contrast be rubbing their hands with ghee
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Cunny - I dont believe you believe what you just said, AND I dont beliieve you believe it to be true of the population you just pretended to represent.
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They could always try voting...but yes, I think that's an appauling insult to the white working class. I quite like them, me. When will the Brit haters give up, it ain't gonna happen.
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fkin young asians, they make me want to puke, a good percentage of them anyway. they want flushing down the toilet.
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lol
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sparky is quite rightly biassed, seeing as he's half asian.
if they were all like you sparky, i wouldn't have an issue. |
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Thanks Mitchell for your contribution - and I thought birdlife tought us (well me) a lot about the world.
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I have a lot of experience of young Asians, I live in Bradford.
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I'm not half asian btw. I am stupidly in love with a girl who is half asian, but I'm 1/2 German/Slavic/American and 1/2 English. My mum was born in India though!
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soz!
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what I can't understand is how you stand for some of the things imposed on the British. for eg, hot cross buns banned in certain schools, St Georges cross banned from being visible in certain areas etc etc etc. My interpretation is that its only Asians and bleeding hearts that object to such things. If they tried to ban the Tricolour over here because if offended some minority there'd beblood war
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If they tried to ban the Tricolour over here because if offended some minority there'd beblood war
As has been proven. |
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No need to apologise MD, it's not an insult. I've an asian friend (for 25 years) who served in the british army, and exemplifies all that I think is great of the typical british, including telling his dad that there was NO WAY his sister was having an arranged marriage. Life is complicated.
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I'm 1/2 German/Slavic/American and 1/2 English.
And no relation to any mathematicians whatsoever! Evening, Sparks! |
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Disgrace.....
BNP will thrive....rightly....just need to moderate some of their people and the Government are going to have major difficulties in this country |
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Asian youths have good manners. ;\
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some do, agreed.
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about 15% of them.
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BNP - can see where they are coming from, but in my view they are racist - that ain't right either
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very few people in this world are racist.
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Does anyone else think that WW3 in on the cards?
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if we attack Iran, yes.
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All I'll say is you British are very patient people....
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I mean, it's clearly visible that a white/other race society always causes problems in places, each have their own communities and stay seperated .... I just think it's a matter of time before things get very heated eerywhere. It's just nature though isn't it, fight over territory, sad but true
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Well from what I can see here, Blacks, Poles, Philipinos don't try to impose their views on anybody. They just get on with it and integrate pretty well.Now. muslims - differant story
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Schalke 04 - there's an echo in here. Is this your one size fits all threads post.
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........Does anyone else think that WW3 in on the cards?.............
Not a world war, but a rebellion in this country. Sadly we stand for the 3 card trick. It will all kick-off with something like the proposed Wootton Basset parade. |
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Evening Bill!
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