We want to share an important update with our Betfair Community users.
Over the coming months, the Betfair Community platform will be winding down. The final active day for the platform will be December 21st. From December 22nd, users will no longer be able to access the platform.
Your discussions, insights, engagement, and, most importantly, feedback have helped shape the platform and guided innovation. Your feedback continues to be important to us, and we will continue to listen via our dedicated feedback channels, as well as through product testing and innovations.
To share your feedback and experience, visit: https://support.betfair.com/app/home
Chit Chat
There is currently 1 person viewing this thread.
fkkn unbelievable what some people ar capable of 
A pregnant woman who lost her baby after she was pushed to the ground and kicked may have been deliberately targeted, police have said.
The 21-year-old, who was 32 weeks pregnant, was attacked by two men wearing crash helmets in Peckham, south London, at around 20:00 BST on Monday.
A 20-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday and remains in custody.
Following the attack, the woman was forced to wait more than an hour for an ambulance that never arrived.
The London Ambulance Service apologised after admitting police were forced to take the victim to hospital themselves when, after an hour and ten minutes of waiting, the ambulance had still not attended.
The victim later lost her baby in hospital and remains in a critical condition following the attack near her home.
Both men "continually kicked and stamped on her stomach" before fleeing the scene, police said.
A number of people heard the victim's screams and went to help her, the police added.
After the attack in Talfourd Place, the suspects, described as black and in their 20s, ran off in the direction of Denmark Road, the Met said.
Det Ch Insp Robert Pack said police were investigating whether the woman was targeted by the assailants and were "treating it akin to murder".
"This was a truly abhorrent and vile attack on a heavily pregnant woman who has now, tragically, lost her baby," he said.
null
"The men who attacked her must have known the impact their actions would have when they kicked her repeatedly in the stomach.
"It is sickening to think someone would deliberately target a pregnant woman in this way."
The baby died in the early hours of the morning when "no foetal heartbeat was detected", he said.
Mr Pack said the woman "possibly" knew her attackers and that murder detectives were handling the case due to the "sheer level of mercilessness involved".
He said the two men were distinctive in their crash helmets and appealed for anyone with information to come forward.
A pregnant woman who lost her baby after she was pushed to the ground and kicked may have been deliberately targeted, police have said.
The 21-year-old, who was 32 weeks pregnant, was attacked by two men wearing crash helmets in Peckham, south London, at around 20:00 BST on Monday.
A 20-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday and remains in custody.
Following the attack, the woman was forced to wait more than an hour for an ambulance that never arrived.
The London Ambulance Service apologised after admitting police were forced to take the victim to hospital themselves when, after an hour and ten minutes of waiting, the ambulance had still not attended.
The victim later lost her baby in hospital and remains in a critical condition following the attack near her home.
Both men "continually kicked and stamped on her stomach" before fleeing the scene, police said.
A number of people heard the victim's screams and went to help her, the police added.
After the attack in Talfourd Place, the suspects, described as black and in their 20s, ran off in the direction of Denmark Road, the Met said.
Det Ch Insp Robert Pack said police were investigating whether the woman was targeted by the assailants and were "treating it akin to murder".
"This was a truly abhorrent and vile attack on a heavily pregnant woman who has now, tragically, lost her baby," he said.
null
"The men who attacked her must have known the impact their actions would have when they kicked her repeatedly in the stomach.
"It is sickening to think someone would deliberately target a pregnant woman in this way."
The baby died in the early hours of the morning when "no foetal heartbeat was detected", he said.
Mr Pack said the woman "possibly" knew her attackers and that murder detectives were handling the case due to the "sheer level of mercilessness involved".
He said the two men were distinctive in their crash helmets and appealed for anyone with information to come forward.
sort by:
Show
per page
Replies: 50
|
By:
Utter scum
|
|
By:
Pure and utter barbaric savagery.
|
|
By:
Picture of the lady here
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jun/17/woman-critical-condition-losing-unborn-child-stamping-attack Man charged with child destruction following attack on pregnant London graduate in which pair pushed her to the ground and repeatedly kicked and stamped on her stomach A woman is in a critical condition after two men pushed her to the ground and stamped on her stomach, causing her to lose her unborn child in what police called an “abhorrent and vile attack”. The 21-year-old victim, who has been identified as Malorie Bantala, was 32 weeks’ pregnant when she was attacked in Peckham, south-east London, on Monday evening. She was walking in Talfourd Place, a quiet residential area, when she was approached by two men wearing motorcycle helmets, police said. They pushed her to the ground and repeatedly kicked and stamped on her stomach before running off. A member of the public called police and the victim was taken to a hospital in south London where she lost the foetus, according to police. She remained in a critical condition in intensive care on Wednesday. A man was charged with child destruction following an attack on a heavily pregnant woman, Scotland Yard said early on Thursday morning. Kevin Wilson, 20, was remanded in custody to appear at Camberwell Green magistrates court. A 20-year-old man from south London has been arrested on suspicion of child destruction and grievous bodily harm and is being questioned by police. The victim’s mother, Ida Bantala, has told how she was upstairs in her flat in Peckham when someone came screaming to her door, saying: “‘Malorie’s mum, Malorie’s mum, come quickly!’ I rushed down and there she was just lying on the pavement with the police. “She was just crying and crying. If you see your daughter like that, it’s awful. Words can’t explain it,” she told reporters. “Then, about an hour later maybe, they took her to hospital and I went with her. She was talking to the police for a long time.” She said the family had lived in the area since 2001 and had never encountered any trouble. Her daughter had been working since finishing university, she said, and was excited about having the baby. “I wanted to be a grandma. She was so happy and now she is sick in hospital,” she said. “I had seen a man hanging around with a crash helmet but I had no idea that it would turn out like this or it was anything to do with Malorie. The police have been good – they have to catch whoever did this to my precious daughter.” |
|
By:
Over an hour for an ambulance that didn't even turn up?!
That's bloody disgraceful. Hopefully they put the 2 ****s away for a long time. Can they be done for murder? |
|
By:
Over an hour for an ambulance that didn't even turn up?!
That's bloody disgraceful. Hopefully they put the 2 ****s away for a long time. Can they be done for murder? |
|
By:
only if the baby is born alive apparently
'child destruction' is the charge |
|
By:
Ahh OK.
From googling it looks like a life sentence could be likely. |
|
By:
In South Wales, in February 2012, Carl Whant was convicted of child destruction after he fatally stabbed Nikitta Grender, who was 8½ months pregnant, in the abdomen in February 2011. Whant was also convicted of raping Grender before murdering her, and of arson for setting her home alight afterward. He was sentenced to imprisonment for life with a minimum term of 35 years.
|
|
By:
Actually that's a poor example as he committed other crimes as well.
|
|
By:
Some of the black young men in SE London are worse than starved wild animals. If I had my way i'd round the lot of them up and stick them on a remote Scottish island.
|
|
By:
I reckon the residents of Stornaway would love it ..... innit blad
|
|
By:
Cant believe and ambulance took so long, someone fooked up here, the person calling the ambulance or the service itself.
The bbc have named the person arrested as he has a english name. |
|
By:
Should be done for murder.
|
|
By:
We don't want em up here thanks posy. Plus it wouldn't be fair. I suggest you ask the same luvvies who want to embrace multiculturalism and diversity by throwing open our doors to the dregs of the world make themselves known. Then it will just be a question of how many they want to come and stay with them. I'm sure they'll receive generously.
|
|
By:
Couldn't open the link to the photo, but I already feel seriously sick just imagining what happened.
|
|
By:
man charged ...teaching assistant
|
|
By:
It was on the news at 10 last night, just dreadful.
|
|
By:
Black, white or asian, or any other facking colour, makes no difference.
They're not men, so step 1 is to stake them out on a wooden floor and give them a drug so that they can't lose consciousness, but they feel every bit of pain. Cut their bollocks off with a rusty knife. Pull their teeth out with pliers. Cut their eyelids off and leave their eyes exposed to the Sun. I'd better stop now before I start to get nasty. |
|
By:
Ibrahima Sonko
18 Jun 15 10:21 The bbc have named the person arrested as he has a english name. BBC error. |
|
By:
If the unborn was less than 24 weeks old it has no rights to life at all.
|
|
By:
her ex boyfriend......i assume the father of the baby
|
|
By:
Spelling. I believe you can inflict an awful lot of pain with a hot iron.
|
|
By:
Was thinking cannot be a Random Attack ,should get Life
 |
|
By:
There must be more to this. She was attacked by two men. One's the ex-boyfriend, so if he'd been on his own, we could imagine he is jealous and deranged. But who is the other attacker and what was his motive?
|
|
By:
future father getting shot of an unwanted kid?
Can we not have a small zoo just with a pack of lions in it and lob these coooonts in with them. death fight, lets see how they get on. |
|
By:
Just when you think you've seen it all ...
|
|
By:
agree with money
|
|
By:
Absolutely vile. Words can't describe them.
Would like to borrow naydam's red hot poker and administer the punishment myself. |
|
By:
Foinavon. I meant an ordinary household laundry iron. We've all touched one by accident. Imagine the effect of having your body 'ironed'.
 |
|
By:
naydams in charge of retribution.
|
|
By:
Naydam is too kind, a red hot poker can reach the parts a household iron leaves behind.
|
|
By:
To be fair of course it would be the same horror story whichever colour these young cheeky chappies were. I just assumed they were black. Does that make me racist ? Just being honest. It feels wrong but its the truth.
|
|
By:
i like the fear factor, make them actually **** their jeans before the pain occurs.
hence the lions. |
|
By:
Peckham might be a clue, it has long since changed from Del Boy's demography,I suspect.
|
|
By:
This is from the Mail
"A spokesman for London Ambulance Service said: 'We are very sorry that we were unable to send an ambulance. We were called at 8.16pm and police cancelled the ambulance at 9.25pm." Why on earth would the police cancel the ambulance. Neighbours were continually calling for an ambulance. Why wasn't one sent. I have had reason, several times, to call an ambulance when I was supporting someone with life threatening seizures. The ambulance service never let me down once. They were always there within a few minutes. I really don't understand that bit. And so the lowlife scum that did this was a teaching assistant. Unbelievable. Poor girl is still critically ill. . |
|
By:
plod cancelled the ambulance cos they got fed up waiting for it to turn up and took the poor girl to hospital themselves
|
|
By:
Thanks. Not the police's fault then.
|
|
By:
They might just apologise though to appease the BBC.
|
|
By:
Did Facts, the renowned luvvie, jump in too sharp with his early comment, not reading it all, and not realising that they were black?
I noticed that the Guardian, the paper of his choice, didn't print that he was black. Watch him unblock me now. |