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A better Great Reset?

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Well THIS is new!

News story

Lobsters, octopus and crabs recognised as sentient beings

Amendment to Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill following LSE report on decapod and cephalopod sentience

I'm wondering if this means I can't eat 'em any more, 'cause eating sentient beings is kinda icky, ain't it?

From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, The Rt Hon Lord Benyon, and The Rt Hon Lord Goldsmith Published19 November 2021

 

• Crabs, octopus and lobsters to be recognised as sentient beings in government policy decision making
  
• Decapod crustaceans and cephalopod molluscs will be recognised under the scope of the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill
  
• Amendment to Bill follows London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) scientific research findings on decapod and cephalopod sentience
  
• Existing industry practices will not be affected and there will be no direct impact on shellfish catching or in restaurant kitchens
  

The scope of the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill has today been extended to recognise lobsters, octopus and crabs and all other decapod crustaceans and cephalopod molluscs as sentient beings.

Nah, I'm still gonna eat 'em. I've always been a bit uncouth and uncivilized like that.

The idea DOES make me feel a little like the Kanamit aliens in the Twilight Zone episode "To Serve Man", though.

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Well THIS is new!

News story

Lobsters, octopus and crabs recognised as sentient beings

Amendment to Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill following LSE report on decapod and cephalopod sentience

I'm wondering if this means I can't eat 'em any more, 'cause eating sentient beings is kinda icky, ain't it?

From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, The Rt Hon Lord Benyon, and The Rt Hon Lord Goldsmith Published19 November 2021

 

• Crabs, octopus and lobsters to be recognised as sentient beings in government policy decision making
  
• Decapod crustaceans and cephalopod molluscs will be recognised under the scope of the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill
  
• Amendment to Bill follows London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) scientific research findings on decapod and cephalopod sentience
  
• Existing industry practices will not be affected and there will be no direct impact on shellfish catching or in restaurant kitchens
  

The scope of the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill has today been extended to recognise lobsters, octopus and crabs and all other decapod crustaceans and cephalopod molluscs as sentient beings.

Nah, I'm still gonna eat 'em. I've always been a bit uncouth and uncivilized like that.

The idea DOES make me feel a little like the Kanamit aliens in the Twilight Zone episode "To Serve Man", though.

Sentience:
The capacity to experience feelings and sensations. It's a feelz Bill for the kids.

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Sentience:
The capacity to experience feelings and sensations. It's a feelz Bill for the kids.

Ah. So "sentience" is the ability to experience feelings and sensations, but sapience is the ability to reason and think and act on those thoughts. Fits the world perfectly at this juncture, I think. Mankind is devolving from homo sapiens and soon will be known as homo sentiens... another name for homo sentiens could well be "Eloi".

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Oh looky, it seems the MSM are waking up to the idea that grooming-gangs are still roaming the UK.
Who'd have thought it?! But notice, they steer clear of describing facets of this behaviour, aspects like ethnicity
and cultural-settings regarding women.
Noooo, we can't say things like that!!

Child sexual abuse: Extensive failures in tackling grooming, says report



'Police and councils are still failing to properly identify and investigate child grooming gangs, a report warns.
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse said officials often denied the scale of the issue, thinking
incorrectly that it was "on the wane".

Data such as the ethnicity of abusers and victims was not collected and could have helped identify offenders.
In its report the inquiry, which covers England and Wales, said child victims were often blamed by authorities.

In its 18th report, IICSA examined abuse in St Helens, Tower Hamlets in London, Swansea, Durham, Bristol
and Warwickshire. It found signs of abuse in the six areas studied but said there were "extensive failures" in
how authorities tackled child exploitation, with police often unable to provide evidence on the extent of the
problem.

The inquiry concluded that abuse of children by grooming gangs occurred in all parts of England and Wales.

Its recommendations include improving the advice and guidance given to police and local authorities, a tighter
definition of the problem, and the collection of ethnicity data. There was a "flawed assumption" that this form of
child sexual abuse was on the wane, the inquiry's chair Prof Alexis Jay said.

Officials in two areas said there was no data suggesting abuse, but in at least one, Swansea, the inquiry found
examples which "should have been identified by the police". There was also disagreement among agencies
working with police about the definition of organised child abuse, the report found.

The inquiry found children as young as 10 were being labelled as only "at risk", despite clear evidence they were
contracting sexually-transmitted diseases, going missing with adults and turning up late from "house parties".

The report said that in some cases authorities might be potentially downplaying the scale of abuse over concerns
about the negative publicity. It said local authorities "don't want to be labelled another Rochdale or Rotherham"
-referring to high-profile grooming gangs.

'I was a child'
One woman, abused as a child by a notorious gang in Rochdale told the BBC: "I was a child. I always pictured
rape as being pinned down, as being tied up. "Because I got drunk and I woke up with no underwear on I didn't
actually think I'd been raped. I always kind of blamed myself in that situation."

"The school knew that I was pregnant at 14 and used to see me get picked up and dropped off by Asian males.
"The hospital knew because they carried out an abortion without my parent's consent."
"The police knew because I was arrested every other week.
"All the authorities knew, but they never did anything."


Inquiry chairwoman, Prof Alexis Jay, led the investigation into child abuse in Rotherham

Concerns about so-called grooming gangs have been growing since the late 2000s following a string of horrifying
cases in Rotherham, Rochdale, Derby, Oxford, Bristol and Cornwall. They involved a clear pattern in which groups
of adult men befriended children, plying them with drink and drugs before sexually abusing them over months.

There has been repeated criticism of the police and child protection agencies for failing to take account of the fact
that in some of the most serious cases the perpetrators were a distinct ethnic or religious community, while the victims
were from another.

None of the areas examined by IICSA kept data on the ethnicity of all victims and perpetrators.

"This makes it impossible to know whether any particular ethnic group is over-represented as perpetrators of child
sexual exploitation by networks," the report concludes.
This is despite the Home Office regularly publishing general data about the ethnicity of criminals and victims...'

BBC:

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It's taken some time, but eventually one of their own is held accountable for their actions.
Another hint to what is still going on in certain communities. 

Disgraced peer and ex-Labour politician Lord Ahmed is jailed for five years and six months for
historic child sex offences - as victim calls for him to be stripped of his title

*Lord Nazir Ahmed, 64, has been jailed for five years and six months
*He was found guilty of two counts of attempted rape and one of buggery 
*Ahmed resigned from House of Lords but retains title Lord Ahmed of Rotherham


Lord Nazir Ahmed.

'Disgraced peer Lord Ahmed has been jailed for more than five years for trying to rape a young girl and sexually
assaulting a boy aged under 11 in the 1970s - and his victim is now calling for him to be stripped of his title.

The former Labour politician, 64, was convicted in January of sexually abusing two children when he was a teenager
in Rotherham. A woman had told Sheffield Crown Court that Ahmed tried to rape her in the early 1970s, when the
defendant was about 16 or 17 years old but she was much younger.  

Jurors were also told that he carried out a serious sexual assault against a boy under 11, also in the early 1970s.
Ahmed was found guilty of two counts of attempted rape and one of buggery and was today jailed for five years and
six months. His two victims, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, both bravely sat in court to see their abuser jailed. 

Ahmed's male victim welcomed his prison sentence but is now calling for the disgraced politician to be stripped of his title.
'I'm happy in that he got a lengthy custodial sentence, but not happy he is still called a lord and everything that goes with it,'
said his victim. 'It cannot be right that people are still referring to him honourable Lord Ahmed - he's a paedophile, there is
nothing honourable about that at all.'

Ahmed had resigned from the House of Lords in November 2020 after reading the contents of a conduct committee report
which found he sexually assaulted a vulnerable woman who sought his help.

The report made him the first peer to be recommended for expulsion but he resigned before this could be implemented. 
Although he resigned from the House of Lords, he retains the title Lord Ahmed of Rotherham.  
Victims and campaigners have demanded that the Government strip Ahmed of his title after a 'legal anomaly' meant that he
cannot be stripped of his peerage unless the Government changes the law.

One of his victims, who has felt suicidal since he was raped when he was about ten, told BBC's Newsnight: 'That title is
bestowed on people that have got some honour and some dignity, he's got none of that. He's a convicted paedophile.
There's no justice in that.' 

Mr Justice Lavender today jailed Ahmed for five years and six months, telling him: 'Your actions have had profound and
lifelong effects on the girl and the boy, who have lived with what you did to them for between 46 and 53 years.
'Their statements express more eloquently than I ever could how your actions have affected their lives in so many different
and damaging ways.'

The victim of the attempted rapes read her own victim personal statement in court, saying: 'An overwhelming feeling of
shame remained with me throughout my childhood and early adult years. 'It was a burden I was made to carry, and it
silenced me for many years. 'It is now time for me to pass that burden to him - the paedophile who I know feels no
personal shame.' She added that Ahmed had however now been 'publicly shamed' for his actions.

His female victim courageously read out her personal statement in court before sentencing. 
'It is now time for me to pass that burden to him, the paedophile, who I know feels no personal shame,' she said.
'However, he has been publicly shamed in terms of what he did to me. In the end, all tyrants fall.'

Outside court she added: 'I cannot change the past. I can, with courage, change the future. I can help prevent others from
suffering through the same painful history I lived through. As I now begin to make this case a part of my past, knowing that
through my actions he is not able to rape children for a while.' 

Ahmed's two older brothers Mohammed Farouq, 71, and Mohammed Tariq, 66, were also charged with indecent assault
in relation to the same boy that Ahmed abused. Both men were deemed unfit to stand trial, but a jury found that they did the
acts alleged.

Farouq and Tariq were both given absolute discharges after the judge said the only other two options - a hospital order or
a supervision order - would not be appropriate in this case.

A victim personal statement from the male complainant read in court said being sexually abused by the three men had
'affected me on a daily basis' and left him unable to show affection to his own children.
He said: 'I buried the abuse and carried it with me on my own for years and years. 'I feel shame because of what these
men did to me. 'This is not about revenge, this is about justice.'

In mitigation, Imran Khan QC said Ahmed had 'devoted his life to public service' and that his 'fall from grace' had been 'in the
full glare of publicity,' including a campaign for him to be stripped of his title. Mr Khan said: 'That very good reputation he had
has gone.'

The judge said that according to legal guidelines, the sentence must be in line with the one that would have been imposed at
the time the offence was committed. He jailed Ahmed for three and a half years for the offence of buggery, and imposed two
concurrent sentences of two years for each of the attempted rapes.

Mr Justice Lavender also adjourned the case for six weeks to determine whether Ahmed could pay prosecution costs.
During the trial, the jury was played a recording of a telephone call between the two complainants, made by the woman after
she went to the police in 2016. Tom Little QC, prosecuting, told the jury that the call was prompted by the man contacting the
woman by email saying: 'I have evidence against that paedophile.'

Former Labour member Ahmed resigned from the House of Lords in November 2020 after reading the contents of a conduct
committee report which found he sexually assaulted a vulnerable woman who sought his help.
The report made him the first peer to be recommended for expulsion, but he resigned before this could be implemented...'

Daily Mail:

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I know nothing of the British peerage, so I do not understand how a Pak got a Lordship. I'm gonna blame it on the Norman invaders, also foreigners.

it pretty much cheapens my attempts to get a Lordship, so all efforts have ceased in that regard. Why would I want one now, if just anyone can get one? that ain't special any more.

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I know nothing of the British peerage, so I do not understand how a Pak got a Lordship. I'm gonna blame it on the Norman invaders, also foreigners.

it pretty much cheapens my attempts to get a Lordship, so all efforts have ceased in that regard. Why would I want one now, if just anyone can get one? that ain't special any more.

He was created a life peer in 1998 on the recommendation of the New Labour Government. A gift from the hand-wringing
white man to the oppressed Muslim from across the waves.

'...Ahmed was created a life peer, Baron Ahmed, of Rotherham in the County of South Yorkshire, on 3 August 1998.
Although there have been many claims that he was the first Muslim life peer, including by Ahmed himself, or the first
male Muslim peer, he was in fact the third Muslim life peer; the other two, Baroness Uddin and Lord Alli, were raised
to the Peerage on 18 July whereas Lord Ahmed was so raised on 3 August.
There have been earlier Muslim hereditary peers, the first being the 3rd Baron Stanley of Alderley in 1869...'

WikiOpinion:

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Some things remain the same.

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It's nice to see 'sleeper cells' have evolved from the old days of just staying off the radar and then
performing their instructed individual acts. Now it seems that even after the committed crime, those
who follow a certain ideology can join together and continue their hatred of the country they live in.

Convicted bombers guilty of attacking prison officer

'Three convicted terrorists, including Hashem Abedi who is serving life for 22 murders in the Manchester Arena
bombing, have been found guilty of a "vicious attack" on a prison officer.

Paul Edwards, 57, was attacked in his office in the high security unit of Belmarsh Prison in May 2020.

Abedi, with Ahmed Hassan and Muhammed Saeed, all denied assault causing actual bodily harm.
All three have been found guilty after a trial at Woolwich Crown Court.
Abedi was convicted of assaulting a second prison officer who rushed to help his colleague.
He received a sentence of three years and 10 months imprisonment, which will be added on to the record 55 year
minimum term he is already serving.


(L-to-R) Bombers Hashem Abedi, Ahmed Hassan and Muhammed Saeed.

Hassan and Saeed were sentenced to three years' imprisonment, to be served consecutively to their existing jail terms
The court heard that Abedi, 24, started the assault on Mr Edwards, along with Muhammed Saeed, 23, who had talked
about carrying out a knife attack at London's Speaker's Corner.

They were quickly joined by Ahmed Hassan, 22, serving life for the Tube bombing at Parsons Green underground station.

'Karate kick'
All three were being held in Spur 4 of Belmarsh's high security unit which at the time had only 10 inmates.
Just after 15:00 on 11 May 2020, as the men were being escorted back from the exercise yard, CCTV cameras recorded
them smiling and joking as they reached the top of the stairs, then running off to carry out the attack.

Paul Edwards described sitting at his desk in his office when Abedi and Saeed burst in.
Saeed launched a "karate kick" at his head as Abedi swung an office chair at him, he said.
He fell to the floor where Abedi and Saeed started kicking and punching him, and were joined by Hassan.

"I feared for my life... and I genuinely thought that if I hadn't fought back I could end up with at least extreme injuries, or dead,"
he said. He said it felt like a lifetime before other prison officers came to help him, even though it was only a few seconds.
CCTV seen by the jury, but not released to the media, showed Mr Edwards with blood on his head and shirt after the assault.
As well as lacerations to his scalp, he had a bruised back and rib cage, and has suffered lasting damage to his hearing.
His wife, who also works at HMP Belmarsh, took him to hospital.

Fellow prison officer Nick Barnett, who suffered a bruised shin during the fight, said there was "utter chaos" in the office where
the assault took place. "It was just like a pack of animals on Mr Edwards," he said. "It was just a vicious attack where they were
literally all over him."

Apart from the office chair, no weapons were involved in the attack, and the prisoners had been through a metal detector as they
came back from exercise. In a meeting that morning Hashem Abedi had complained to the governor in charge of the unit that
Muslim prisoners received different treatment to non-Muslim ones.

The trial heard that Abedi had orchestrated a series of identical complaints from prisoners on his wing, but he denied being their
"leader". He and Hassan had been moved from the standard privileges regime to basic because they had shaved their heads,
changing their appearance without permission.

This meant loss of access to televisions and games consoles and a shorter exercise period.
Paul Edwards was the officer who made this decision.

The three prisoners who assaulted him were earlier involved in a fight on 1 March 2020. At the time, Abedi was on trial for murdering
the 22 victims of the Manchester Arena attack. At his first court appearance in the assault case last year, when asked whether he
pleaded guilty or not guilty, Abedi said: "I did assault that filthy pig, but I don't see any wrongdoing."

During the assault trial, Abedi represented himself, meaning he was allowed to question witnesses in court and give a defence closing
speech. He did not give evidence, nor did his co-defendants. Abedi was not allowed to question the two prison officers he had assaulted
and was forbidden from using his speech to talk about other issues.

Boasts to lawyers
Despite denying any role in the Manchester Arena attack, Hashem Abedi has since admitted his involvement in a series of boasts to
lawyers that are said to amount to pro-Islamic State propaganda. The BBC has asked the Ministry of Justice why two convicted bombers
and a man who aspired to carry out a terror attack were held on the same spur of the same high security unit, and were able to plan their
assault on a prison officer.

The three are:
Hashem Abedi, whose brother Salman Abedi carried out the Manchester Arena suicide attack, is serving life with a record minimum term
of 55 years after being found jointly responsible for murdering the 22 victims.

Ahmed Hassan, serving life for attempting to murder travellers in the bombing of a London Underground train near Parsons Green station
in September 2017.

Muhammed Saeed, who admitted five terror offences in June 2020, namely possessing instructions for making bombs and carrying out
attacks.

Court documents show that, in chat groups infiltrated by an undercover officer, Saeed praised "Jihadi John" and wrote: "There's people
in Speaker's Corner who mock the Messenger of Allah Wallahi. We have a duty to kill them." He said he would use a kitchen knife with
a fixed blade and had, in another online conversation, discussed using a van for an attack.

The May 2020 Belmarsh assault came months after an inmate of the same unit had carried out a terror attack in Streatham, south London,
days after his release, and two prisoners had carried out a terror attack on a prison officer in HMP Whitemoor in Cambridgeshire.
Peter Clarke, former Chief Inspector of Prisons and the former senior counter terror officer, and a senior fellow at the think tank Policy
Exchange, said the prison system has not adapted well to handling prisoners who are inspired by al-Qaeda and the Islamic State Group.

"What needs to happen is that the people managing these prisoners need to be expert in the particular risks which these prisoners present,"
he told BBC News. "It's no good just treating them as other prisoners are treated. There needs to be a unique and tailored approach."...'

BBC:

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On page 16 of this thread, I posted about a young woman's death (Ms Sabina Nessa) and the creepy bastard
who the Police believed was responsible for it. Well, apparently they got him.


Sabina Nessa and a typical resident to these Isles, Koci Selamaj.

Man admits murdering south-east London teacher

'A man has pleaded guilty to murdering primary school teacher Sabina Nessa.
Koci Selamaj attacked and strangled the 28-year-old as she walked through a park in Kidbrooke, south-east London,
in September.

Ms Nessa had left her home to meet a friend at a bar when she was targeted by Selamaj, who was said to have travelled
to London to carry out "a predatory attack on a stranger". The 36-year-old admitted murder at the Old Bailey on Friday.

Ms Nessa had been walking through Cator Park during the evening of 18 September when she was attacked and killed
by Selamaj, who did not know her.

'Extreme violence'
At an earlier hearing, prosecutor Alison Morgan QC described how the Albanian national drove to London from his home
in Eastbourne to carry out what she described as "a pre-meditated and predatory attack on a stranger". The killing was
carried out with "extreme violence", Ms Morgan said, adding that the murder involved a sexual or sadistic element.

The court heard that CCTV showed Selamaj had spotted Ms Nessa and checked to see if there was anyone else around.
He then ran towards his victim and struck her 34 times using a metal traffic triangle, before carrying her away unconscious
and strangling her in the park.


Selamaj.

Selamaj disposed of the weapon in a river on his way back to Eastbourne.
The court heard he had previously been violent towards his former partner, putting his hands around her throat in a strangling
motion. Ms Nessa's body, which was covered in grass, was discovered the following day with her tights and underwear
removed and parts of her body exposed.

Ms Morgan said: "Some of her movements through the park and the attack on her were captured on CCTV footage.
"The male shown on that CCTV footage is alleged to be this defendant." Three days before, Selamaj put his plan into
action by booking a room at the five-star Grand Hotel in Eastbourne, the town where he already had accommodation.
His reservation was for the night of 17 September and he arrived earlier in the day to check in.

Selamaj spoke to hotel staff and was captured walking through the lobby wearing the same clothes as the suspect later
spotted on CCTV in Kidbrooke. His Nissan Micra was tracked by ANPR cameras and cell site evidence was gathered
to identify his movements from Eastbourne to London. The defendant entered Cator Park shortly after 20:00 BST and lay
in wait for 30 minutes before Ms Nessa arrived.

Ms Morgan said: "The defendant is seen in effect loitering in locations around the park before spotting the deceased,
checking to see if anyone else was nearby before turning and running after her. "He is then seen to move towards the
deceased and striking her repeatedly using a weapon which was approximately 2ft in length."

She added that the weapon "appeared to break up during the course of the many strikes on the deceased.
"The CCTV footage shows the defendant then carrying the deceased, who appeared to be unconscious by that point, up
a bank and effectively out of sight." Selamaj's actions afterwards were out of camera shot, but Ms Nessa was not seen
alive again.

The prosecutor said: "The male did appear after 10 minutes.
"He is seen to pick up pieces of the weapon that had broken on the ground and then moved back to the area the deceased
was located for another 10 minutes." Shortly before 21:00, Selamaj was seen using wet wipes to clean a bench.
He then stayed the night back at the Grant Hotel and checked out in the morning.

Selamaj was arrested on 26 September in Eastbourne.
In a police interview, he made no comment except to deny murder when asked directly if he was responsible for killing Ms Nessa.

Earlier this year, a lawyer for the defendant confirmed that he accepted being the person caught on CCTV and that he had hit Ms
Nessa a number of times. The murder of Ms Nessa heightened concern for the safety of women and girls in the capital following
the stranger murders of Sarah Everard, and sisters Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman.

In the days after her killing hundreds of people joined a vigil in Kidbrooke, with her family leading tributes.
Selamaj, who has no previous convictions, had pleaded not guilty to murder when he appeared in court in December.
However, he changed his plea to guilty and is due to be sentenced on 7 April...'

BBC:

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On page 16 of this thread, I posted about a young woman's death (Ms Sabina Nessa) and the creepy bastard
who the Police believed was responsible for it. Well, apparently they got him.
...

Thanks for the update.
Crazy guy. Sad tale.

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On page 16 of this thread, I posted about a young woman's death (Ms Sabina Nessa) and the creepy bastard
who the Police believed was responsible for it. Well, apparently they got him.
...

Thanks for the update.
Crazy guy. Sad tale.

The craziest part is that he just wanted to kill someone, anyone, and didn't care who. She was just in the wrong place at the wrong time, a random target of opportunity.

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Thanks for the update.
Crazy guy. Sad tale.

The craziest part is that he just wanted to kill someone, anyone, and didn't care who. She was just in the wrong place at the wrong time, a random target of opportunity.

Welcome to London.

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@"BIAD" 

Welcome to London.

BIAD, um ... Bing Translate informs me that is correctly rendered as,

لندن میں خوش آمدید



Just Sayin'







Cheers

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I copied this link.

Shows a couple of young Brits kitting up to go fight in Ukraine.  Getting their contacts from the Ukraine embassy.

Later shows aid being put together.  

https://youtu.be/yIXRMP97m0Y

Kind regards,

Bally :)

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In the thread 'General News and Events', I posted the terrible incident of Sasha Johnson -a Black Lives Matter activist
and mother from London being shot in the head at a party held in the early hours of a Sunday in May last year.

Four men entered the party in a garden and committed the heinous and were later captured.
.................................................................

Then six days ago, this happened.

Sasha Johnson shooting: Case against four men collapses

'The case against four men charged over the shooting of black equal rights campaigner Sasha Johnson has been dropped.
The mother-of-two was shot in the head during a silent disco in the garden of a house on Consort Road in Peckham, south
London, in May last year. She suffered "catastrophic" and permanent injuries and remains in hospital.



At the Old Bailey, four men had denied conspiracy to murder.
Prince Dixon, 25, of Gravesend, Kent; Troy Reid, 20 of Southwark; Cameron Deriggs, 19, of Lewisham, and Devonte Brown,
19, of Southwark, had also pleaded not guilty to having a gun and ammunition with intent to endanger life.
Mr Justice Hilliard recorded formal not guilty verdicts.

A trial had been due to start on 7 March but at a hearing on Tuesday, the prosecution announced it would not be pursuing the
case following a review. In court, prosecutor Mark Heywood QC said he was unable to give the full reasons for the decision
but had provided details to the court as to why the CPS had no option.

Outlining the case, he said four males in balaclavas had approached the house and discharged a weapon at guests, with one
round striking Ms Johnson in the head at "very close range". He said the Crown had alleged the four males were the defendants,
however the case against them was based on circumstantial evidence and there was no direct evidence identifying any of them.

CCTV analysis, phone cell site and call data showed they planned and conducted surveillance before carrying out the attack with
"murderous intent" on one or more partygoers, the court heard. The men had denied being part of the alleged conspiracy or present
on the night of the shooting.

Mr Heywood said the wider background was a "falling out" and "hostility" between Mr Deriggs and Mr Brown and the two youngest
occupants of the house, who were aged 18. There had been previous incidents and a panic alarm had been installed at the family
home just days before, the court heard.

Access to the party was restricted by security at a side gate and one of the attackers was carrying a handgun, probably a Glock
loaded with 9mm bullets, the court heard. He said Ms Johnson had been at the party as she was then in a relationship with the
oldest son who had been living at the property.

Ms Johnson is a prominent anti-racism campaigner and a founding member of the Taking the Initiative Party.
She was heavily involved in the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020.
At the time of the attack, Ms Johnson worked in community activism and community support.

Many people expressed their outrage and shock when the attack happened. Vigils were held and MPs, including David Lammy
and Harriet Harman, tweeted their support for her. Black Lives Matter UK described her as a "fearless campaigner" and said
although she was not a member of their organisation, "she impressively founded a new Black-led political party and was
dedicated to resist anti-Black racism".


Ms Johnson today.

The court heard there was nothing to suggest Ms Johnson was targeted because of her anti-racism campaigning...'

BBC:

In a subsequent update, the party becomes 'a silent disco in the garden of a house in Peckham, south London'!

[Ninurta]

In the thread 'General News and Events', I posted the terrible incident of Sasha Johnson -a Black Lives Matter activist
and mother from London being shot in the head at a party held in the early hours of a Sunday in May last year.

Four men entered the party in a garden and committed the heinous and were later captured.
.................................................................

Then six days ago, this happened.

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In a subsequent update, the party becomes 'a silent disco in the garden of a house in Peckham, south London'!

Looks like Soros may own your prosecutors there, too,

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In a subsequent update, the party becomes 'a silent disco in the garden of a house in Peckham, south London'!

Looks like Soros may own your prosecutors there, too,

You're probably correct, something doesn't sit right.

Black Lives Matter.
Wikipedia:
Black Lives Matter is a decentralized political and social movement that seeks to highlight racism,
discrimination, and inequality experienced by black people. When its supporters come together,
they do so primarily to protest incidents of police brutality and racially motivated violence against
black people.

Ah, so it's not about fiscal inequality then... that'll explain why someone could afford to hold a 'Silent
Disco'.

Silent Disco
'A silent disco or silent rave is an event where people dance to music listened to on wireless headphones.
Rather than using a speaker system, music is broadcast via a radio transmitter with the signal being picked
up by wireless headphone receivers worn by the participants.
Those without the headphones hear no music, giving the effect of a room full of people dancing to nothing.

In the earliest days of silent discos, before 2005, there would be only one channel available to listen to music
through. Over time, the technology moved along to where there were two, and later technology allowed for a
third channel that three separate DJs could broadcast over at the same time.

Silent discos are popular at music festivals as they allow dancing to continue past noise curfews.
Similar events are "mobile clubbing" gatherings, where a group of people dance to the music on their personal
music players...'

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Kidnapper crawled streets in Audi looking for woman to attack

'A man kidnapped a teenager walking home after a night out and took her to an industrial estate intending to sexually assault her.
Danny Chen would later claim he was just being "chivalrous" by helping a drunk 19-year-old into his white Audi at 3.30am. But when
he drove the victim to a "dark and secluded" spot and tried to get in the back of the car with her, the victim's "survival instinct" kicked in.


Danny Chen.

She managed to escape and a judge today said he was sure Chen had intended to carry out a sex attack. Liverpool Crown Court
heard CCTV footage showed the woman, who the ECHO has chosen not to name, walking home on May 23, 2021.

Steven Swift, prosecuting, said she had been out in the city centre and the footage showed her "staggering" along Farnworth Street
in Kensington. Cameras also captured Chen driving past in his Audi, before he turned around and pulled up alongside the victim.
Mr Swift said: "It was clear she was in no condition to consent to getting into Mr Chen's car." The court heard he took hold of her
-she said forcibly by the arm - and got her into the back of his car.

The victim could remember giving Chen directions and telling him she wished to be dropped off at a friend's home. However, Mr Swift
said Chen drove past roads and she was "ignored", before he stopped at an "isolated industrial estate". He said the woman was
"concerned about the actions and intentions" of Chen when he tried to get into the back of the car.
Mr Swift said: "At this point she started to panic. She managed to push the defendant away, asking 'what are you doing?'"

The victim got out of the car, but realised she had left her handbag on the back seat and returned, only to find it was now in the front,
with Chen. She fled and hid behind another vehicle before she phoned a friend and the next morning called police. Chen used her
bank card to buy crisps and a drink from a Texaco garage in Barlow Lane at around 5am. The card was declined when he tried to
buy food from McDonald's in Walton Lane at approximately 5.30pm.

Police traced Chen and arrested him at his home in Westminster Road, Walton on June 4. When arrested, he suggested he had
picked up a "drunken girl" and tried to take her home but she wouldn't give him correct instructions. He said eventually when driving
around he became "fed up" and asked her to get out.

Judge Robert Trevor-Jones said: "Of course that didn't in any way square with the fact he took some three minutes from where he
picked her up to where they entered that industrial estate." The victim's handbag was found in a bin at the back of his home and
Chen admitted two counts of fraud, relating to the use of the card. He denied kidnap but after one jury couldn't reach a verdict, a
second jury found him guilty at a retrial.

The victim said she lost out financially, had to replace her driving licence and other cards, and was left struggling to sleep and on
antidepressants. Mr Swift said: "As a consequence of this offence she finds herself hyper vigilant when out. "She said 'I panic
when cars pull up near to me, especially white ones like the one the offender drove. I also find myself avoiding the area where
the male first got me into his car, despite having friends in the area.'"

Judge Trevor-Jones said an aggravating feature was "she was so drunk it seems she was effectively defenceless". Callum Ross,
defending, accepted that was "the main aggravating feature" and she was therefore "vulnerable". Mr Ross said his client, of
previous good character, knew he would be jailed. He said it was a short incident, there wasn't any evidence of "any method
of restraint" or use of violence or weapons, and he suggested it was "opportunistic" rather than premeditated.

The court heard Chen previously worked as a fraud investigator for a high street bank. Mr Ross said: "He has for all of his life
prior to this offending contributed positively and productively to society." He said Chen was assessed by the Probation Service
as "an intelligent and articulate man". He said he was "a man who, though he still maintains his innocence, does entirely accept
the verdict of the jury".

Mr Ross said Chen even "speculated" that if he had been on the jury, he would have convicted himself, which the lawyer suggested
showed "some level" of "reflection". Mr Ross said: "He states his main regret from these proceedings is that the complainant has
had to go through giving evidence twice in this case." Judge Trevor-Jones said he was "quite sure" Chen was "driving around" not
because he was going to McDonald's - as he claimed at trial - but "either looking for someone to attack or to steal from".

He said the victim was "obviously" drunk because she could "barely walk" and that would have been clear to Chen, who got the
"almost defenceless" woman into his car when "she was barely aware of what was happening". The judge said: "You took her
directly to that dark and secluded industrial estate and if not before, certainly by that time, it is clear you intended some sexual
assault. I'm quite sure that is what you were going to carry out when you attempted to get into the back of the car."

Judge Trevor-Jones added: "You maintained all of this was entirely chivalrous on your behalf, trying to help her in her desperate state."
The judge said when Chen tried to get into the back of the car "some survival instinct kicked in" and the woman escaped. He added:
"This was a very terrifying, if short lived experience". Jailing him for three and a half years, Judge Trevor-Jones said: "I have no doubt
you present a high risk of harm to vulnerable females."...'

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