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What were the odds on the colour? Must be 1.01 these days.
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Yes the mention of Mental Illness about 10 on , at least a description has been released
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Mentally ill but can stab 4 people and escape detection. Or is 'mentally ill' a code for something else?
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"Issues regarding mental illness" . Does anybody think such random attacks are the act of a sane man ? Why state the obvious ? How many years training required to qualify as a criminal profiler ?
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The use of 'mental illness' as an excuse often before arrest let alone prosecution is STAGGERING!!
It gives the criminal's lawyer a free pass. 'Your Honour, I agree with Plod, my client is unwell so send him to hospital not jail. Thanks awfully'. |
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4 people stabbed in the back - headline news ................... 17.4 million people stabbed in the back - media cover up
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Someone randomly stabbing 4 people in the back I would think mental illness is 1.01 rather than an 'excuse'
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Needs putting down when they find him.
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Shop keeper said could hear a lot of Roaring before the Woman was stabbed ..
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I agree with Tobermory, ANYBODY running amok stabbing complete strangers is mentally ill.
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or just píssed off with things.
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Thoughts with the victims. The stabber shouldn`t see the light of day again.
We all get pissed off at times but 99.999% of us are sane and wouldn`t do such things. |
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I don't care for anyone except for a select few. I've never understood this 'humanity bonding' thing.
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Will probably Find the Perp has a History , Should not be even on the Streets .
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ffs lybertine thats the second time today.
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'2nd man arrested'
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'Mental illness' is a diagnosis established by trained medical personnel.
How any of the Old Bill or media can even think to include this in a statement or report beggars belief. It compromises any court case that follows. |
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If that happened in Spain the Guardia Civil would have been there in a couple of minutes and filled him with more holes than a Swiss cheese.
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tobermory • March 31, 2019 7:31 PM BST
'2nd man arrested' Manager of local ASDA who failed to ensure all knives were removed from his store ![]() |
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Apparently these attacks took place over a 14 hour period , not 4 hours as previously reported .
At which point did the OB decide to get off their lazy backsides and show some sort of presence on the ground ? |
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Would you walk round our streets in a Police uniform armed only with a stick. Many areas are almost no go zones at night.
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Police i'm sure refer to mental illness because the history exists not because they are whimsical.
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They don't know who he is How can they know his History ??
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I said the history, not his history,and i'm sticking to that...
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No doubt all the victims will be white but there will be no mention of a racist attack, god help us if it was the other way round though , Racist Stabbings Headlines everywhere...
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2 people in custody ......................... OB everywhere .
What's the point in flooding the streets with coppers now ? They need to be out there on patrol 24/7 ffs ! |
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@RLKingPunter -- No doubt all the victims will be white ...
Police said the victims were from "different backgrounds". That does not preclude them all having different ethnicities from the attacker, but does rather suggest this is not about race. It was also not about robbery or sex or terrorism so the most likely explanation is mental illness. Another triumph for Care in the Community. |
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Even by Modern Lefty Progressive standards, this latest Edmonton atrocity is something else.
Why did the new Metropolitan Social Worker Police Service automatically rush to judgement that the suspect might have 'Mental Illness' issues, before a single arrest was made, or any suspect questioned? What a racket this 'Mental Illness' phenomenon has become. I've lived in 3 different parts of the UK, all for lengthy periods, and don't know ANYONE who goes around stabbing people, less still hide behind the 'Mental Illness" cloak. Makes a good defence in court though. Thank Allah the judge in the Yorkshire Ripper case back in the 80s wasn't quite so wet behind the ears. |
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4 people stabbed over a 14 hour period. Looks like a calculated attack to me.
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@alun2005 -- Modern Lefty Progressive standards.
Mental illness as a legal defence has been around since Norman times, if not before. That's a thousand years. The modern tests go back to the 1840s when M'Naghten was acquitted of murdering a civil servant while trying to assassinate the Prime Minister. Broadmoor was opened in the 1860s. None of this is a recent phenomenon. |
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I don't think the police used to offer it as an excuse before even catching anyone though.
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None of this is a recent phenomenon.
I'm completely aware of this, but NEVER in our island's history has 'mental illness' been advanced so repeatedly as an excuse BEFORE a suspect is even identified, let alone caught and interviewed. |
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alun2005, What about the other old saying that gets thrashed about a million times a year...
''Lessons will be learned''....in other words, move on, nothing to see here. |
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It's more common for the initial speculation to be centred on the perpetrator's faith than his mental wellbeing.
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The most likely solutions are:
a) Massively cut the number of police on the streets. b) Massively cut the funding for mental health. c) Privatise the probation service so that the people on the front line are minimum wage agency workers. d) The perp has a foreign sounding name - so divert attention away from a), b), and c) by blaming everything on immigration. We should all be able to walk the streets safely again in a couple of days/weeks/months/years/decades*. *delete as applicable. |