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A mother walking with her three-year-old son asleep in a pushchair was stabbed after she refused to hand over her mobile phone.
Christel Stainfield-Bruce, 36, was approached by a teenager in Islington, north London, on Friday afternoon who initially asked her for directions.
He then said "give me your phone" and after she said "no" he stabbed her in the thigh before fleeing empty-handed.
The Met said no arrests had been made.
Officers said the suspect was 5ft 3in tall black male of large build, wearing dark-coloured clothing, including a jacket and trucker-style cap.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-48583834
Christel Stainfield-Bruce, 36, was approached by a teenager in Islington, north London, on Friday afternoon who initially asked her for directions.
He then said "give me your phone" and after she said "no" he stabbed her in the thigh before fleeing empty-handed.
The Met said no arrests had been made.
Officers said the suspect was 5ft 3in tall black male of large build, wearing dark-coloured clothing, including a jacket and trucker-style cap.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-48583834
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Maybe the public should join the police in wearing body cams.
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The biggest shock about this dreadful story is that a useful description of the suspect has been published.
No doubt there's still time to discipline or sack the individual responsible. |
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I was thinking that too alun,most unusual.
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Posted about it early Inj , this needs to be taken off the Street and quick ... A seriously Dangerous individual .
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The description describes much of London.
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How can one be 5 ft 3 and at the same time large build?
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He played with weebles as a child and has Modeled himself on them .
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-48595051
The Unborn Child targeted in this one...  |
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detraveller 11 Jun 19 23:40
How can one be 5 ft 3 and at the same time large build? I doubt they could describe him as a small fat youth, might hurt his feelings. |
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a little fat cont?
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promising young basketball player
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Thank God he's short. Otherwise he'd have stabbed in her in the throat...
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I would have liked the description to have included one final line.
"So, if you are aware of any freakballs in this locality, please let us know ASAP". That would have nailed it most comprehensively for my money. |
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I doubt they could describe him as a small fat youth, might hurt his feelings.
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I can't hear "Islington" without thinking of monopoly.
I take it "The Angel Islington" wasn't referring to a humpty dumpty shaped knife wielder then  |
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Bizarrely the man arrested is 26!
Christel Stainfield-Bruce, 36, was attacked after she refused to hand over her phone on Caedmon Road in Islington, north London, on 7 June. She was treated in hospital for a stab wound to her leg and was told she was lucky the knife had missed an artery. Ismail Musa, 26, of Tollington Road, was charged with causing GBH with intent. |
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Still got the winter thick quilt on the bed, and it's middle of JUNE!
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Woops wrong fred
 The flush of embarassment will warm me up for the "isn't the weather crap" fred |
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Ismail Musa, 26, of Tollington Road, was charged with causing GBH with intent.
Very close to being an anagram of 'Asian Muslim' |
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crikey |
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A muzzie, now way?!!?!? MULTICULTARISM FTW!!! JUST STAY THE FK OUT OF NORTH YORKSHIRE PLEASE!
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North Yorkshire , the last bastion of 'Englishness'
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26? Probably said he was 14 to get in and is still at school
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Gang initiation was the theory (even the victim suggested it, possibly reflecting what she'd heard from the police) when the attacker was thought to be of school age.
Now he is 26, it must surely be mental health issues. A failed mugging and pointless stabbing: what else could it be? He's clearly not a hardened criminal; it makes no sense as a terrorist act. Another triumph for care in the community. |
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Surely he was a misunderstood aspiring footballer?
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-48649341
Two boats containing 40 migrants, including children, have been intercepted off the Kent coast. All those on board said they were from Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan, the Home Office said. All the migrants have been medically assessed and transferred to immigration officials, a spokesman said. |
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Many more to join these misunderstood sports stars, ahh the poor dears after the 10 or so safe countries they have come through, now coming to a town and free house near you...
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Not really sure what ocean-going immigrants have to do with this North London stabbing. Surely they all have alibis: they were on a boat aimed in the vague direction of Dover.
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Most people don't have any idea of the back story of the Manchester Concert bomber, the media keep it very quiet obv...
"The bomber, Salman Ramadan Abedi, was a 22-year-old British Muslim of Libyan ancestry. He was born in Manchester on 31 December 1994 to a Salafi family of Libyan-born refugees who had settled in south Manchester after fleeing to the UK" Given every chance in this country, school, house etc, and what did he want to do, blow young girls to bits enjoying themselves at a family concert. Who knows what these "desperate" boat people will bring us in twenty years, maybe the new Einstein will be among them? |
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Wait, someone bombed a Manchester concert? The media certainly kept that quiet.
 But if you look carefully, the bomber was not an immigrant. Nor were most of the other Islamist terrorists, and that is both frightening and puzzling. |
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It doesn't puzzle me in the slightest. And yes, we should be frightened.
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Not puzzled at all by this. Immigrants can take decades to integrate if at all.
NO chance people leave their culture, traditions, strengths, weaknesses, prejudices and faith at Heathrow customs. |