RACISM CUTS BOTH WAYS

Racist Murder in Britain – The Shocking Truth

“To put it as simply as possible: if you wanted to draw a police profile of the typical racist murderer in Britain in the seven years covered by the IRR report, he would be forty times more likely to be non-white than white.”

An epidemic of anti-white racist violence and murder is being covered up by the government, the Police and the media. The shocking truth about the extent of this fatal failure of the multi-racial ‘experiment’ has been unearthed by a BNP research team working in response to the report on racial murder in Britain issued at the start of August 2006 by the Institute for Race Relations.

The IRR Report - - shocking but also flawed

The widely-publicised Institute for Race Relations study claimed that there had been 45 race murders in Britain since the publication of the McPherson Report. It named the victims as:

Andrea Dykes, John Light, Nicholas Moore, Stelios Economou, Harold (aka Errol) McGowan, Liaquat (aka Bobby) Ali, Joseph Alcendor, Ben Kamanalagi, Hassan Musa, Zardasht Draey, Jason McGowan (1999), Zahid Mubarek, Santokh ‘Peter’ Singh Sandhu, Kombra Divakaren, Jan Marthin Pasalbessi, Glynne Agard, Mohammed Asghar, Abdi Dorre, Tariq Javed, Khaliur Rahman, Sarfraz Khan (2000), Gian Singh Nagra, Fetah Marku, Shiblu Rahman, Shaun Rodney, Sharon Bubb, Firsat Dag (2001), Peiman Bahmani, Shah Wahab, Derrick Shaw (2002), Mohammed Isa Hasan Ali, an unnamed Asian man, Paul Rosenberg, Johnny Delaney, Awais Alam, Quadir Ahmed (2003), Kris Donald, Shahid Aziz, Akberali Tayabali Mohamedally, Bapishankar Kathirgamamathan, Kalan Kawa Karim, Lalji Joshi, (2004), Marek Smrs, Kamal Raza Butt, and Anthony Walker (2005).

Unfortunately, this list – widely used in the media as evidence of white racism – is artificially inflated. The first three names are those of the victims of David Copeland’s ‘homophobic’ attack on the Admiral Duncan pub in Soho. Clearly the victims of a hate crime, these three whites murdered by a racist who also loathed homosexuals nevertheless have no place on a list of racist murders. If the Soho Bombing was to be included, then it would be in order to balance that by listing the 7/7 Bombings’ dead as the victims of minority racism, but we believe that both sets of murders involved politically motivated terrorism and have no place in the figures on racist killings. That brings the figure down to 42.
Kriss Donald was the 15-year-old white victim of what was probably the most sadistic racist murder in British history. The IRR couldn’t even spell his name correctly but, in any case, he does not belong in a list whose clear purpose is to portray racist murder as a crime against coloured people. That leaves 41.

Three of the alleged victims – Jason McGowan, Shaun Rodney and Harold McGowan – were found dead in circumstances that led the police, even after the white racism hysteria that gripped the Force after McPherson, to conclude that they had committed suicide. That leaves 38.
Fetah Marku was a Kosovan who was beaten to death by a black gang and Kamal Raza Butt died after being punched in a scuffle by a black and mixed-race gang in a heavily multi-racial area of Nottingham. In order to have a true picture of the extent of the problem of white racist violence, both men must therefore be removed from the list. That leaves 36.

A number of the other victims also died in circumstances which make it distinctly questionable whether or not race was a factor. The drug addict who murdered Lalji Joshi, for example, had earlier attacked a number of other homeless people who happened to be white; the passenger who murdered Sarfraz Khan was “off his head on drugs” at the time. Mohammed Asghar was stabbed to death in a fight outside his restaurant, but the jury found that the white defendant had acted in self-defence. Kombra Divakaren was beaten to death by a youth gang who he caught robbing his shop. Although Tariq Javed was murdered by white passengers in his taxi, the police said there was no evidence of any racial motivation. Ben Kamanalagi was a bouncer who was beaten to death in retaliation for having thrown a man out of the club where he worked.

Despite the question mark over these six deaths, however, we will accept them as racially motivated, and then use the same IRR assessment criteria in our parallel study of white victims of racial murder. The IRR report claims that the cases it lists have a “known or suspected racial element …. Many investigated by the police as possible racial crimes.” Their definition of suspicion is clearly broad (significantly broader than the standard that we have set in our assessment of cases involving whites), but broadly conforms with the recommendation of the McPherson Report itself, under which any incident is to be regarded as racial if it is perceived as such by someone – whether the victim, their family, members of the local community or political analysts.

Broadly accepting the IRR’s own assessment, and only removing from their list the most obvious propaganda exaggerations, we accept for the sake of comparison the figure of 36 recorded non-white victims of racially motivated killings by white criminals since February 1999. Clearly this is a shocking figure and one which, taken alone, suggests that there are serious problems festering at the heart of the ‘multi-racial experiment’.

The Forgotten White Victims

The marked tendency of the police and the media to play down or even ignore incidents of all levels of seriousness when white people are the victims rather than the perpetrators of racial attacks makes it very difficult to collate a comprehensive list of the white victims of racial murder.

The incidents covered in our own investigation into the problem have mainly been traced and recorded with the help of local newspaper reports submitted via the Internet. It is highly likely that the apparent ‘increase’ in the racially motivated killings of white victims from 2001 onwards is in fact accounted for by the growth of Internet use in collecting the details of the attacks, and that the figures for previous years therefore underestimate the full extent of the problem.

It will be noted that, in a number of the cases listed, we have been unable to provide information about the eventual outcome of any trial. This lack of information is in itself a symptom of the way in which such cases are often downplayed or even completely ignored by the media.
Also, the reporting mechanism on which we rely is ad hoc and provides us with patchy coverage of the country, and that the individuals passing on such details are in turn only able to provide details if they are published in their local newspapers, it is therefore probable that the following list is in no way complete. Even in its incomplete form, however, the list of white victims of racially motivated killings in Britain between February 1999 and the start of August 2006 is deeply shocking. In order to show that problem has not gone away, we intend to keep updating the list, but for the purposes of this statistical study we have made our calculations on the basis of the cases listed below from 1999 up until the killing of Steven Jeeves on July 26th 2006.

The individual, family and community tragedies involved in each one of the brief accounts of racially motivated (defined according to Institute for Race Relations practice) murder are beyond comprehension. The statistics for racial murder in Britain in 2006 can, by contrast, be readily understood and are best expressed as a ratio…and it is virtually 4:1, i.e. nearly four whites killed for every non-white killed.

The grotesque racial disparity involved in these figures can be understood by considering the percentage of ethnic minority groups within the population as a whole. In the last Census, racial minorities made up approximately 9% of the population, and this is the figure we therefore need to use.

The crime ratio SHOULD be equal to the population ratio. So non-whites should be committing approximately 9% of any given crime. However, out of a total of 178 racial murders – NB: this figure was that studied in August 2006, when this paper was begun - they are actually committing 79% of these crimes from a base of only 9% of the population. Thus non-whites were, in the period 1999 – 2006, a staggering 39.9% times more likely to be committing racial murders against white people on a per capita basis than the other way round. White victims are over-represented to the same degree – effectively forty times what they should be.

To put it as simply as possible: if you wanted to draw a police profile of the typical racist murderer in Britain in the seven years covered by the IRR report, he would be forty times more likely to be non-white than white. And such a profile should be drawn up – and widely publicised – because until people understand what is going on, and asking why, there is no chance of stopping more and more innocent people falling foul of this hidden scourge of multi-racial Britain.

Anyone who doesn’t believe that the media are biased should put the names of coloured victims on the Institute for Race Relations list, and the names of white victims on our list, into Google and contrast the resulting links to media coverage.

One final point:

While the assailants in the cases listed here are members of ‘ethnic minorities’, this must under no circumstances be taken to indicate that “all murderers are black” or any such racist nonsense. Nor should anyone shocked by the sheer scale of this epidemic of anti-white racist violence be tempted to ‘take it out’ on innocent members of non-white communities. The people who should be blamed for this hidden scandal are the politicians who created the multi-cultural ‘experiment’, and the media editors, police chiefs and local and national politicians who have deliberately drawn a curtain of silence around so many of these victims and the misery of their loved ones.

BILLY WARD. 21. December 2007. Croydon.

Billy Ward was stabbed to death after an argument with Starfield Badza, 18, of Croydon, and Junior Lumbango, of Friars Wood, Pixton Way, Forestdale on a bus as it travelled through Croydon. Billy was returning home after a night out with friends, and was found with multiple stab wounds at Gravel Hill, at the junction with Selsdon Park Road, and died in Mayday Hospital less than an hour later. Whilst even the Sunday Mirror had the integrity to put out a description of his attackers, the BBC, knowing full well who the police were looking for, shamefully refused to offer anything more than a reference to, “two suspects”.

Now normally in these cases the police do their very best to help “community relations” by putting very subtle pressure on the grieving family to drop any kind of racial angle. Contrast this to the huge police and media circus that would have followed had the role of the victim and murderers been reversed.

STUART LOWE. 18. October 17th 2007. Warrington.

Stuart Lowe, 18, was killed in Warrington, when Sibongiseni Majola struck him about the head with a screwdriver and kicked him while on the ground. Stuart had suffered a massive brain injury and although he clung to life for seven days, he died a week later without regaining consciousness.

Majola, from Warrington, was sentenced to life behind bars, with a recommendation he serve at least 12 years before he can be considered for parole. The court heard that joinery apprentice Stuart had gone to a party at The Bank Quay Social Club on October 17. It finished at 11pm and led to up to 100 young people, mostly students, milling around on the streets outside.

Majola, armed with a screwdriver, was accompanied by a friend who was armed with a shovel, walked along Sankey Street they came across Stuart Lowe with his friends, making their way home.

Although Stuart was not involved in the initial fight, an altercation developed between the two groups, and Majola struck his head with the screwdriver. Witnesses say Majola kicked Stuart as he lay on the floor before running off.

JASON SPENCER. 17. October 11th, 2007. Nottingham.

Jason Spencer, was stabbed to death by Reuben Valentine in a dispute about a torn jacket in Nottingham. Judge Michael Stokes said Valentine was “barbaric and evil” and told him he must serve at least 16 years. The court was told Valentine had become angry when his jacket was torn during a play fight.

Valentine attacked Jason Spencer and stabbed him eight times, with two of the blows piercing his heart. The court heard evidence the Valentine became angry after his jacket was torn and demanded £60 to replace it.

The jury was then told that when Jason offered to sew it up, Valentine punched him in the face and was hit back. Speaking after the verdict, John Greensmith, Jason’s stepfather, said: “We will never see Jason grow up, have girlfriends, get married or make Angela a grandmother. He has been snatched away from us because some evil person attacked him, showing no mercy. He took the life of such a special person.”

KEITH COWELL, 52. MATTHEW COWELL, 17. August 30th 2007, Bishop’s Stortford.

Keith Cowell, 52, and his son Matthew, 17, were shot dead at their home along with a third man, Tony Dulieu, 33, of Billericay, Essex. Matthew’s girlfriend, Clare, and Keith’s 54-year-old sister, Christine, were also badly hurt in the attack in Plaw Hatch Close, Bishop’s Stortford, Herts.

Six people were charged for the triple killings: Kevan Thakrar, 20, of Lomond Way, Stevenage; his father, Atul Thakrar, 46, also of Lomond Way, Stevenage; Amanda Dansie, 20; Jay Thakrar, 24; Miran Thakrar, 23; and a sixth person not named to “protect the integrity of the case.”
According to police, the killers used knives in the attack on Christine because they ran out of bullets.

ANDREW HOLLAND. 16. August 17th 2007. Bolton, Lancs.

Mahmud Maksoudian, aged 21, of Madams Wood Road, Little Hulton, was sentence to life imprisonment for stabbing teenager Andrew Holland to death outside Ashy’s chip shop in Plodder Lane, Farnworth.

Andrew was one of two 16-year-old boys attacked outside Ashy’s Takeaway at about 10.50pm on a Friday night, following an argument thought to involve one of the victims. Police found Andrew, of Trentham Gardens, Farnworth, collapsed and bleeding. Both teenagers were taken to Rochdale Infirmary where Andrew later died.

KEVIN BECKINGHAM. 35. February 12th 2007. Plumstead

Disabled Kevin Beckingham was throttled to death at his carer home in Nithdale Road, Plumstead, by Khorram Azim, 34, of Wood Place, Chislehurst Road, Sidcup. The Old Bailey heard how Azim killed Beckingham with his own hands using a choke hold from the American martial art of catch wrestling.

Azim had been hired by Beckingham as a personal fitness trainer, and, after taking advantage of the disabled man’s hospitality, brutally murdered his victim and then tried to pin the blame on his best friend. Azim, who was described as “manipulative” and “aggressive”, stabbed Mr Beckingham in the neck after choking him to death, to make it look like he had been killed by an intruder.

Prosecuting, Victor Temple said Azim had “staged managed” the murder scene, with Beckingham found lying face down and his arm outstretched towards a syringe. Beckingham could not use a syringe and had no need to use one.

JAMES HOULISTON. 44. July 12th 2007. Hackney.

James Houliston, 44, of Regan Way was beaten to death by a man described as a “dark-skinned Asian” by eyewitnesses in a busy Hoxton park. Police announced that they were “keen to trace a dark-skinned Asian man in his late teens, who is about 5ft 11ins tall.” No follow up report ever appeared as to the outcome of this case.

KEITH BROWN. 52. July 6th 2007. Normacot, Longton, Staffordshire.

At around 4pm on Friday 6th July 2007 Staffordshire Police attended what they described as a ‘neighbour dispute’ in Uttoxeter Road, Normacot, Longton. The dispute, the police told reporters, was over a strip of land between two properties. Paramedics took two men to Stoke - on - Trent’s University Hospital. A 52-year-old man was pronounced dead on arrival and a 19-year-old was later discharged with minor injuries.

In the immediate aftermath of the above ‘neighbour dispute’ Stoke Police arrested four men. They arrested a fifth man and a 14-year-old girl. By the Sunday evening, the girl had been released without charge and two men, aged 32 and 19, had been released on Police bail; three other men, 49, 24 and 26 had been detained for questioning and a 49-year-old had been charged with Keith Brown’s murder. A post-mortem investigation revealed that Keith had died from a single stab wound in the back.

What the above, stark, media information did not tell readers and viewers was that Keith Brown was a white man and that his attackers were a family of Muslim neighbours. A senior police officer acknowledged that the above dispute had built up ‘over the past couple of years’. The police also confirmed that the man charged with Keith’s murder would appear before magistrates on Monday 9th July.

On that date the Stoke Sentinel newspaper reported that North Staffordshire magistrates sitting at Fenton had denied bail to Habib Khan, a neighbour of Keith Brown’s from Uttoxeter Road, Normacot and that Khan had been charged with the murder. A District Judge ‘ordered Khan to appear at Stafford Crown Court on Monday July 16th. As of late – September 2007 Habib Khan still awaited trial. Four other men arrested for the attack were released on police bail pending further enquiries.

So convinced were Mr. Brown’s family that the murder, and the harassment that preceded it, was racially motivated, that they invited the BNP’s six councillors in Stoke to be the pall bearers at Keith’s funeral.

MARTIN DINNEGAN. 14. June 26th, 2007. Islington, North London.

On 10th July 2007 the family and friends of 14-year-old stabbing victim Martin Dinnegan gathered for a mass at St. Mellitus, Tollington Park, Finsbury. After the mass they walked to the murder scene, at the corner of Tollington Way and Axminster Road, in Islington, where they staged a peace service. Since the stabbing and death of their 14-year-old son, by a gang of black teenagers on bikes, on the evening of 26th June 2007, Martin’s parents have condemned teenage gang violence and have called on Gordon Brown to halt Britain’s worsening knife culture. Mrs. Dinnegan has also criticised the way in which teenage gangs dominate her area at night and how Tollington Park has become a No Go Area for local residents.

Mrs. Dinnegan told the ‘thisislondon’ website: ‘It is horrendous. We are totally shattered.’ As a wall of floral tributes grew at the murder scene various versions of the incident were circulating. One version has Martin being chased by a group of up to 10 youths then fatally stabbed. Other versions place all the action at the above murder scene close to a fish and chip shop in which Martin often played on games machines.
The Dinnegan family were initially told by the police that Martin seemed to have been the victim of a robbery, by five black youths on bikes, which had escalated into a stabbing. However, Martin’s mobile phone was later found on the pavement so robbery was not the motive. The Police then told the family and reporters that Martin was a group of youths who got into a series of verbal exchanges with another group of 15-20 youths. That row became a gang fight and resulted in Martin’s stabbing. However the stabbing developed a friend of Martin’s later learned that Martin was stabbed for looking or staring at a black youth. A friend of Martin’s told the family that a lot of youths were fighting and that he turned and saw Martin’s body on the ground. Two months before his death Martin had been assaulted in a similar exchange between youth groups.

A different version of his death has Martin walking away from the fight scene with two older boys. Martin breaks away to buy chips and his two friends walk on. Unhappy about leaving Martin on his own his friends walk back and see him being attacked and falling to the ground. They run to help him and try to give pulmonary resuscitation. Their efforts and those of paramedics failed and Martin died at the scene. The chip shop manager told reporters that he heard Martin calling out as he was stabbed: “What did I do? What did I do?” Martin’s friends were seen trying to put him into the recovery position but when he was moved his back was seen to be covered in blood. The chip shop manager now cannot sleep and recalls how Martin’s “lips were blue, his eyes were staring and his face was white.”

As Martin’s mother told the Islington Gazette, her son was attacked because he was looking the wrong way at one of a group of black youths who were on bikes: “it ended up with Martin being stabbed. I think he was knocked unconscious with a motorbike helmet then stabbed 4 times in the back. How horrendous is that?” On 30th June 2007 a 15-year-old Islington youth appeared at Highbury Corner Magistrates Court charged with murder. As the deputy head of Martin’s school, the St. Aloysius R.C. College in Hornsey Lane, Highgate, spoke of Martin’s popularity and the school’s shock at his death a senior Police officer lamented the loss of another young life and papers like the Muswell Hill Times opened website condolences boards. One school girl wrote of how she had secretly loved Martin and would now never know how things might have been.

BEN HITCHCOCK. 16. June 23rd 2007. Beckenham, London.

Ben Hitchcock died after he was stabbed in a fight in Southend Road, Beckenham, at the junction with Calverley Close, at 11.36pm. Eyewitnesses described youths wielding metal chains, poles and pick-axe handles in the fight, which is now the subject of a murder investigation.

Ben, who was a Year 11 pupil at Kelsey Park Sports College, in Manor Way, Beckenham, was taken to Lewisham Hospital by ambulance, where he was pronounced dead. Lee Hitchcock, of Blean Road, Beckenham, said: “My son was loved very much by his family and many friends. His last words were “Please help me, phone my mum.”

At a press conference at Southend Road, Detective Superintendent Simon Morgan said: “Up to 40 youths were involved in the incident which began when approximately six boys were barred from entering a party in a nearby location.

“Police arrived and the party was closed. A group left the party and the incident took place shortly afterwards. Neighbours from the flats overlooking the scene have described the “mayhem” of a “terrifying” incident. An ex-police officer, who does not want to be named, described how the incident unfolded. He said: “We heard lots of shouting in the street and all of a sudden there were somewhere between 30 to 40 youths there. “There was one large gang who seemed predominantly black, who came from the direction of Lewisham.”The other gang came from the direction of Beckenham and seemed to be mixed. “They were carrying pick-axe handles, metal scaffolding poles and other homemade weapons and swinging chains above their heads.”They seemed to be big guys and they all pulled their hoodies up when they were around 50 yards away from each other.

Fourteen gang members were arrested in connection with the attack, including one girl. All 14, who are aged between 13 and 16-years-old, were bailed.

JON HENRY. 36. June 11th 2007. Luton.

Tennyson Obih, 27, was charged with the murder of PC Jon Henry, 36, was stabbed after responding to reports of an assault in Luton’s George Street. Obih was also charged with the attempted murder of two window cleaners - Steven Chamberlain and David Knight.

Despite his police-issue body armour Pc Henry suffered stab wounds to the neck and died later at the Luton and Dunstable Hospital.
Pc Henry, whose daughter Maggie was just under one year old at the time of the incident, had been on duty for less than 30 minutes before he was murdered.

KATE BEAGLEY. 32. June 4th 2007. Oxhey Woods, nr. Watford.

Kate Beagley, 32, was killed in a frenzied attack as she sat on a park bench at a beauty spot overlooking the river Thames. Karl Taylor, 27, of Covent Garden, central London, a fitness trainer, was jailed for life in March 2008 for murdering her on their “first date” in May 2007.
Her naked body was found four days later with 31 stab wounds to the face and neck. After his arrest, Taylor led police to Beagley’s body dumped in nettles in Oxhey Wood, north of London. He had driven her there in the boot of her grey VW Golf car, which Taylor told police he had intended to steal when he met her.

The trial heard Taylor had gone on the date armed with a knife, which he placed up his sleeve as he sat with Beagley in the Roebuck pub in Richmond Hill, south-west London.

Peter Clarke QC, prosecuting, said Taylor told police he stabbed Beagley during an argument after telling her: “All I want is your car.”
He told police: “She pushed me away. She was grabbing me and I stabbed her in the throat. I constantly and consistently cut her in the neck because she was going for my face.”

Taylor removed her clothes and washed her body with mineral water before dumping it, the court heard. He later showed off the car to friends and family, and sold Beagley’s mobile phone to a friend.

SAMANTHA ANDERSON 29. May 26th 2007. Newcastle.

Asylum seeker Ari Abdullah was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing nursery nurse Samantha Anderson in a ferocious attack. The pair had been engaged but Abdullah, who could be freed after serving less than 12 years of the life term, had been jealous during their time together and cautioned for assaulting her. When Samantha called at his flat in Vallum Court, Elswick, Newcastle, to collect mail, the Iraqi-born Kurd launched a “relentless” armed onslaught.

Factory worker Abdullah, 30, lashed Samantha about the head with his heavy weightlifting belt, Newcastle Crown Court heard. He grabbed a long-bladed kitchen knife and used it on Samantha repeatedly as she fought in vain for her life.

And by the time Abdullah buried the blade through her heart, Samantha had suffered 14 deep stab wounds to her torso and more than 30 other injuries. Her killer, who had drunk a bottle of whisky, doused her and the bloodstained flat with petrol in a bid to cover his tracks. But he never lit the fuel and was found slumped with self-inflicted knife wounds beside Sarah’s body hours after the killing. Jailing him for life, Judge John Milford said: “Not long after Miss Anderson arrived you attacker her and subjected her to a sustained assault with both a weight belt and then a large knife, stabbing her no fewer than 14 times.

“Against this attack she tried to defend herself but a wound to her heart caused catastrophic blood loss and death. You have taken a young life and devastated thereby her loving family.”

Judge Milford, who said he gave Abdullah credit for his guilty plea to murder and good work record since arriving in the North East in 2002, ordered he must serve a minimum of 11 years eight months before he can be considered for release.

ANDREW OWEN. 42. April 15th, 2007. Coronation Gardens, Sedgley.

South African nationals Gabriel Bhengu, 26, and Jabu Mbowane, 25, of Wolverhampton, were charged with the murder of Andrew Owen, 42, from Sedgley, West Midlands. He was the victim of a robbery and murder committed by the two while walking home from his local public house.

A 21-year-old woman, Kashia Allen, also of Wolverhampton, was also charged with conspiracy to rob.

NEIL WILLIAMS. 41. May 5th 2007. Telford.

Gabriel Bhengu, 26, and Jabu Mbowane, 25, South Africans of Court Road, Whitmore Reans, Wolverhampton, who were tried in early May 2007 for the murder of Andrew Owen (above), were also charged with the murder of Neil Williams.

Telford man Neil Williams’ body was found in Stirchley on 6th April, some twenty miles from where Andrew Owen’s body was found.
Like Owens, Williams was robbed and murdered while walking home from his local pub. The accused had also been arrested for a string of similar robberies in Sedgley, Telford and Dudley

PAUL KELLY. 32. May 5th, 2007. Bath.

Having tried to calm a Longacre Tavern, Bath, New Year’s Eve row between his friends and a black woman and her friends 32-year-old Glaswegian Paul Kelly later found himself trying to stop the dispute as it again flared up outside the pub. Shortly after midnight, as Paul tried to halt the row and a crowd gathered around the two groups, a black teenager who had no obvious ties with the black female and her friend, lunged forward and several times stabbed Paul. Stabbed through the heart, Paul died instantly.

By April 2007, Bath Police had arrested 11 people and had arrested and interviewed a teenager regarded as the chief suspect. None of the twenty or so witnesses who saw the stabbing, however, had yet named or fingered the above teenager and an entire community, wrote a Guardian journalist, was apparently living in fear of the teenager and his cronies. Police officers seeking Paul Kelly’s murderer still had no real evidence with which to charge their prime suspect and a wall of silence contrasted starkly with the anonymous A4 leaflet flyposted around Bath which named the alleged teenage killer.

A frustrated senior Police officer said that the case and the public’s fear of gangland retribution were unprecedented but it was hoped that a large reward and a Crimewatch reconstruction of the murder would persuade someone to break that silence. In early May a senior Police officer told BBC News On-line that the silence remained unbroken but that he was confident that the murderer would be traced and convicted.
The author of the poem on the leaflet implied that there was a racial motive to the killing. This led to race relations officials and activists saying that Bath’s ethnic minorities are not fairly served by municipal and other community services and that there is underlying racial tension.

TIMOTHY SMITH. 40. May 1st 2007. Nottingham.

A teenager on a BMX allegedly stabbed journalist Timothy Smith at a Nottingham bus stop after he bumped into him on the pavement, a court heard.

Rickell Patterson, of Norland Close, St Ann’s, is accused of murdering journalist Timothy Smith in Upper Parliament Street, at around 6.30pm.
Lynne Tayton, prosecuting, told Nottingham Crown Court that Patterson, nicknamed ‘Rizzle’, stabbed Mr Smith in his chest after the collision and a 30-second scuffle.

Patterson, then 16 now 17, was one of four black youths who then fled on their BMX bikes, the court heard. Patterson answered no comment in his police interview but provided officers with a prepared statement in which he denied intentionally killing Mr Smith and said the older man was the aggressor after their collision.

“The defendant claims he only meant to stab him in the arm,” Ms Tayton said. Patterson disposed of the knife in a flooded area of Sycamore Park, from where it was later recovered by police. Ms Tayton said the defendant also changed his top because it had blood on it. Smith, a court reporter previously employed in Leicester, had moved to Nottingham to seek freelance work.

At the time of the incident he was reading a bus timetable and eating a cheeseburger having spent the afternoon surfing the internet at Nottingham Central Library.

THOMAS FAHEY. 41. April 6th, 2007. Streatham, South London.

Thomas Fahey was shot in the chest during a June 2006 botched armed robbery at the Streatham High Road offices of family firm Fahey Roofing Limited. Thomas was shot, in the chest, while, with others, chasing Hallroy Reid, 40, and Damian Ellis, 25, the two would-be robbers who fled the scene after the £11,000 wages cash failed to appear at its usual time. Thomas Fahey, a former postal worker, died six months after the incident in January 2006. He left behind a partner and a 6-month old daughter.

In April 2007 Reid, unemployed and of no fixed abode, of Battersea, and Ennis, a barber of Dick Shepherd Court, Brixton, were convicted of murder and pleaded guilty to robbery and possession of a firearm. Reid, an illegal immigrant who admitted to firing the murder weapon but denied intent to kill, pleaded guilty to also taking part in another robbery. He was jailed for life, with a minimum of 35 years before being deported. Ennis also got a life sentence with a minimum of 30 years before being deported. Two others were arrested and charged with conspiracy to rob the Fahey family firm.

Also convicted was Ashley Sestanovich, a one-time Grimsby, Manchester City and Sheffield United footballer who was a body double for Arsenal player Thierry Henry in a Nike advert filmed in Rome. Sestanovich (25), is part-Croatian and part Ghanaian. Both he and Carl Gibbs, 26, were accused of planning the robbery, Gibbs being a company employee who allegedly supplied information about pay day activities and routines. Gibbs, who was cleared of the conspiracy charge, was accused of giving such information to Sestanovich; Sestanovich, in turn, was said to have passed the information to a Jamaican gang which was carrying out robberies across London.

ALAN SHEARD. 67. April 3rd, 2007. Leeds Road, Thornbury, Bradford.

When a group of teenage Asians – one of whom was only 14 - got into an argument with 67-year-old Alan Sheard one of the youths attacked the elderly white man. Alan fell to the pavement and struck his head on the kerb. One witness, a shopkeeper who is a Councillor’s son, said that Alan Sheard was felled by a single punch. Among the small group of helpers who went to Alan’s aid was Lib-Dem councillor, Riaz Ahmed. Mr. Ahmed told reporters that Alan was unconscious and bleeding and that the injured man made no sound. As the youths fled the scene, running along Thornbury Avenue, Mr. Ahmed placed his jacket over Alan Sheard. According to the councillor, other helpers said that Alan had been racially abusive towards the teenagers.

This assault, the police asserted, was not a gang attack. It was also too early to infer a racial element. On Tuesday 3rd April 2007, a police team held a press conference at the crime scene. The next day, a senior West Yorkshire Police officer confirmed that ‘Two men aged 23 and 19 have been arrested in connection with the death and are currently being questioned by detectives from the Homicide and Major Enquiry Team.’ On 4th April, a Police spokesman said that the above men remained in custody and that detectives had interviewed but had not arrested two youths aged 12 and 14. On the same date, the 19-year-old suspect was released on police bail pending further enquiries and the 23-year-old male had been released without charge. Alan Sheard left behind an elderly mother, in a nursing home, and a daughter.

RUSSELL AYLETT. 42. March 30th 2007. Rush Green Road, Romford, Essex.

In March 2006, black killer Richard Truszczinsky strangled father of three Russell Aylett in a flat at a Romford YMCA hostel. Aylett’s body was then hidden in a wardrobe where, decomposing, it was found three days later by worried staff. Truszczinsky had earlier watched a group of men launch a ‘psychopathic and homophobic’ attack on Aylett. The assault was carried out because one of the men wrongly believed that Russell was a homosexual.

Russell’s corpse was found in a post-mortem examination to have sustained ‘multiple injuries consistent with a serious assault’. These injuries included ‘brain injuries, a shattered nose and nine broken ribs’. It was also established that Russell had been alive when his body was bundled into the wardrobe. On 30th March 2007 Truszczinsky was convicted of Russell’s murder and jailed for life.

MARK WETHERALL. 47. March 7th 2007. Whitstable, Kent.

Mark was found, in Whitstable, Kent, with serious injuries and died after five weeks on a life support machine. 18-year-old black youth Curtis Delima and a 15-year-old were later charged with murder and conspiracy to commit burglary.

ALLAN CHAPPELOW. 86. February 21st 2007. Hampstead, London.

Hampstead is famous as the home of many a popular and notorious celebrity. It was also the scene, between May and June 2006, of the killing in his home of North-West London writer and millionaire Allan Chappelow.

Remanded in custody, at the Old Bailey, until 2nd July 2007, Hampstead financial trader Wang Yam was charged with but denied Allan’s murder. In denying the offence, Wang Yam also denied impersonating the murdered man and obtaining £20,000 by deception. He was also charged with burglary and theft and with handling stolen goods.

After Allan’s death his body lay undiscovered until concerned third parties called the police. The dead man’s injuries, including serious head injuries, were confirmed by a post mortem.

A BBC report noted that Allan Chappelow’s works as an author included two books about George Bernard Shaw. A report by mediabistro.com proves altogether more revealing. Noting how Allan was once known for his books about George Bernard Shaw and, also, for his 1955 novel Russian Holiday the website speculated that Allan ‘likely died of head injuries’ and that ‘the murder may be due to identity theft.’ According to a June 2006 mediabistro report: ‘It was said bank officials tipped off Police after becoming suspicious that Mr. Chappelow had lost money through a series of bogus transactions. He is believed to have reported the theft of some of his mail to the police early last month after returning from a trip to America. And in the days leading up to the discovery of his body £10,000 is reported to have been transferred out of one of his bank accounts by a man claiming to be him.’

ROGER HARE. 61. February 20th 2007. West Dulwich, South London.

A crack addict who left a charity worker for dead had been freed early from prison weeks earlier after another violent attack. Ebanezer Adesina was on licence when he ferociously attacked Roger Hare after the profoundly deaf grandfather asked him to move his legs so he could get off a train.

The 20-year-old was released early from a three-year jail term for robbing two men. While in jail, he broke a fellow inmate’s jaw and was sentenced to serve 15 months concurrently for the attack.

Adesina, who was unemployed, was on the same train as 61-year-old Mr Hare, who was returning home after an evening discussing charity events in London on February 20 this year.

As he stood up to leave the train at West Dulwich station in South London, Mr Hare politely asked Adesina to move his feet so he could pass by.

PAUL KELLY. 32. December 31st 2006.

A few minutes after midnight 2006, 32-year-old Paul Kelly was murdered in Bath. Paul was stabbed repeatedly outside the Longacre Tavern following a row that started in the pub. Paul’s and his friends were out celebrating the New Year when, just after midnight, they got into an argument with a black woman and her friends. Paul did his best to separate the two sides and things quietened down.

However, after a few minutes the row started up again. It spilled out into the street outside the pub and, once again, Paul was seen trying to calm things down. Despite his easily perceived role as peacemaker, a black youth, who had not been associated with the original argument, emerged from the crowd and began stabbing Paul repeatedly.

One of the blows pierced his heart and he died almost immediately. In March 2007, Paul’s killer had still not been apprehended, even though many of the pub-goers must have known his identity.

JEANETTE DIANE HULLAH. 21. December 14th 2006. Cheetham Hill, Manchester.

On 05 January 2007, Pakistani-born illegal immigrant Imtiaz Ahmed appeared for a Manchester Crown Court preliminary hearing regarding the death of Cheetham Hill young mother Jeanette Diane Hullah.

Diane, 21, was a cheerful and attractive soul who allowed the homeless Ahmed to be her lodger. 35-year-old Ahmed, it was alleged, strangled his young landlady in her home on Cheetham Hill’s Galsworthy Avenue. Ahmed was arrested, charged with her murder and remanded in custody pending the above hearing.

The North East Manchester Advertiser reported ‘Mrs Hullah, originally from the Newcastle area, is believed to have moved to North Manchester in the last two years.’ She often sat at her window smoking, liked chocolates and ‘kept herself to herself.’ The nemadvertiser on-line edition added ‘Her sudden death has shocked and worried members of the multi-ethnic community in the area.

DAVID DRISCOLL. 31. November 23rd 2006. Oxhey Road, South Oxhey.

Raymond Agubugba – Cansie, 25, of Harvest Road, Queen’s Park, London and Leon Walsh, 20, of Whiston Road, Hackney, London, were both charged with the 23rd November 2006 murder of Watford man David Driscoll. David Driscoll, a 31-year-old father of three of Lowestoft Road, Watford, died from a stab wound shortly after police officers found him in a flat in Oxhey Drive, South Oxhey.

The above duo appeared at St. Alban’s Crown Court on 12 December 2006. Walsh had earlier appeared before magistrates in Watford. Also charged in late – 2006 was Nathan Bruce, Knox Road, Clacton-on-Sea. All three men were due to appear at St. Alban’s Crown Court on 16 March 2007. Nathan Bruce appeared before St. Alban’s magistrates on January 7th 2007.

By February, 2007, Police had charged Thaimloll Conteh (19) of Croxley Road, Hoxton, London. On 07 December 2006, the Police also announced the arrests of two women. The elder woman, in her 40’s was bailed until 31 January 2007. The younger woman, in her 30’s, was released without charge.

IAN PAGE. 19. November 16th 2006. Colindale, London.

Three men have been jailed for kicking a teenager to death over a row when he bumped into them in the street.

Ian Page, 19, was killed on the Edgware Road, north London, in November last year, following a night out with friends.Yateman smirked in the dock as the victim’s father Kenny Page read out a victim impact statement, telling how he had gone “through hell” over his son’s death
Andre Campbell, 24, his half-brother Lloyd Henry, 20, and Jermaine Yateman, 19, were convicted over his killing at the Old Bailey. Campbell and Yateman were both found guilty of murder, and jailed for life with a minimum term of 15 years.

Henry, who was convicted of manslaughter, was sentenced to eight years. Both he and Yateman were sent to young offender institutions.
They were part of a gang, captured on security camera footage, that dragged Mr Page to the floor then kicked him as he lay motionless beneath them.

Judge Brian Barker, the Common Serjeant of London, said: “What we have seen on that CCTV is chilling and it is scary. “It is totally unacceptable and the public have every right to be concerned about the increase in this sort of violence. “This was selfish thoughtless, group violence. It was deliberately continued when there was no possible danger. It was unwarranted and it led to catastrophe.”

The judge told all three men: “This is a tragic case for all concerned. After an inoffensive evening of enjoyment with his friends Ian Page, 19, died a sudden, brutal and totally unnecessary death at your hands. “The spark that cause the flare-up was we never properly identified but on any view it was pretty inconsequential.” After some “shouting and posturing”, Campbell went off to a kebab shop to get help from his brother and friends. The gang returned to where Mr Page was, isolating him in a corner and chasing off his friends before dragging him off and kicking him until he was unable to get up. As his assailants fled they each laid a final kick into his prone body, before Yateman returned to rob him of his gold bracelet and attacked him again.

Mr Page suffered severe brain damage and died four days later in hospital. Lorraine Beasley, Ian Page’s mother, described how he “loved life” and “had time for everybody. When my son’s life was taken, part of my own life was taken as well,” she said.

GRACE MOORE. 38. 11th November 2006. Erris Grove, Suffolk Estate, West Belfast.

In December 2006 Nigerian immigrant Kristoph Emmanuel Aluya appeared at Belfast Magistrates Court charged with the late-November killing of 38-year-old department store worker Grace Moore.

Aluya (23), who had earlier been remanded in custody, pleaded Not Guilty. On that date, Aluya said that he understood the charge but otherwise did not speak. A Belfast detective told reporters that the evidence against Aluya, of Church Road, Churchfield, Carlow, South – East Ireland, was conclusive.

A city centre shop worker, Grace Moore was stabbed to death in her Erris Grove, Blacks Road, West Belfast, home. Her body was found by her daughter. Aluya applied for bail but was again remanded in custody and ordered to appear by video link on 21 December 2006.

KAREN HARTSHORNE. 37. November 9th 2006. Norton Crescent, Coseley, Wolverhampton.

At Wolverhampton Crown Court, on 9th November 2006, Peter Martin, 38, pleaded guilty to the murder of his Dudley, Wolverhampton ex-girlfriend Karen Hartshorne.

Karen (37), a trainee manager, broke off her long-term relationship with Martin at Christmas 2005. She was found in her home, on 26 February 2006, dead from multiple stab wounds and with her throat slit.

Martin, a 38-year-old impersonator of the black Portsmouth footballer Sol Campbell, was homeless when he appeared for sentencing, at Wolverhampton Crown Court, on 22 December 2006. Sentenced to 14 years for the murder of Karen Hartshorne, Martin had also been convicted of attempting to murder Karen’s new partner, Paul Round.

Taking into consideration Martin’s mitigating plea that he had been depressed at the time of the Hartshorne killing and had not planned the murder, the Judge told Martin that because of Karen’s injuries Martin posed “a risk of serious harm to the public.”After the murder Martin had clambered onto a motorway bridge and threatened to commit suicide.

RICHARD HOLMES. 21. November 2nd 2006. Chingford, East London.

Rapping music, gangsta crime and vengeance for a song which ‘dissed’, or disrespected, an East End of London rap singer. These were the grisly elements of an Old Bailey murder trial which heard how 21-year-old Chingford man, and locally known music producer, Richard Holmes was shot dead, on 04 November 2005, by acquaintances of the rapper MC Durty Goodz.

Otherwise known as Dwayne Mahorn, the above rapper was himself cleared of murder and of manslaughter. The killing allegedly had its roots in a conversation during which Mahorn told a 16-year-old fellow DJ and rapper that he was losing face because of accusations about him in a song written by a teenage rapper friend of Richard Holmes.

Mahorn’s friend confronted the younger man and insisted upon an apology. The younger man refused and the dispute escalated. That night a group of Mahorn’s acquaintances surrounded Richard Holmes and some of his friends. The pro-Mahorn group was armed with a sub-machine gun. As Holmes and his friends ran off, Holmes was shot in the leg and back. He later died of his wounds.

A Scotland Yard report quoted by Chantelle Fiddy’s blogspot noted that “A post-mortem held at Walthamstow Mortuary gave the cause of death as a gunshot wound to the heart. He also suffered two further gunshot wounds to his left thigh and upper right arm.”

At the Old Bailey black killers Anthony Green and Carl Dobson were tried for Richard’s murder. Essex man Green and Stratford accomplice Dobson were each given a 30-year minimum sentence.

Richard Holmes was a Tottenham Hotspur fan who had played for the local (Chingford) Rovers team and had been a talented schoolboy footballer.

A senior police officer leading the investigation said “Carl Dobson and Anthony Green walked onto the estate without disguise and they opened fire in full public view. Richie (Holmes) was unarmed and running away as he was shot from behind.” According to the local press, a handgun was held to Richard’s head before he was shot in the back as he tried to escape.

The killers, had wrongly banked on witnesses being too scared to give evidence against them. One witness, ironically, recognised one of Holmes killers from a music video channel programme. Local Councillor Laurence Wedderburn told a newspaper that he had extensive evidence, from constituents, of a ‘climate of fear’ in the Chingford Hall area. Such a crime, he argued, was inevitable and he had long believed that a ‘major catastrophe’ was brewing.

BILLY GREGORY. 23. October 30th 2006. Charlton, S.E. London.

Mostly ignored by the left-liberal media, Billy Gregory’s stabbing and subsequent death left his family shattered and numbed. Two years before Billy was glassed in a Earl of Chatham pub, Woolwich, attack which saw him die from two puncture / slash wounds to his throat, Billy’s 19-year-old brother Terry was killed by a knife – wielding black man.

At 01.00 a.m. on Christmas Eve 2005 in the lavatory of Woolwich’s Earl of Chatham pub, Billy Gregory was stabbed by a 30-year-old Vietnamese male. Billy, of Hickin Close, Charlton, was taken to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Sidcup but died there, on Christmas Day, as doctors fought to stop severe bleeding. He was attacked just half a mile from where his brother Terry was killed in late-December 2003.

On 30th October 2006, at the Old Bailey, 31-year old Thu Nguyen was found Guilty of the murder of Billy Gregory. Sentencing Nguyen to life imprisonment Judge Ann Goddard condemned the “unspeakable grief and suffering” which he had brought the Gregory family.
Celebrating with friends on Christmas Eve 2005 Billy Gregory was in the Earl of Chatham pub, Woolwich, when he and Nguyen, of King’s Court, Upton Park, East London, became tangled in what for Gregory was a provocative verbal exchange.

Later, in the toilets, they had another, reportedly minor, exchange. Without warning, claimed the prosecution, Nguyen plunged a glass into Gregory’s neck . According to BBC News On-line: “Mr. Gregory used his shirt to try to stem the flow of blood from a deep neck wound but he collapsed and later suffered a massive stroke.”

Nguyen, who, the court heard, had a history of similar violence, was charged with murder and first appeared in court, at Greenwich Magistrates Court, on 26th December 2005. He was remanded in custody until a Old Bailey court appearance in early April of 2006.
The Gregory case caused great local controversy because, as noted, Billy’s brother, 19-year old lifeguard Terry, was also stabbed to death, outside the Albion pub in Woolwich, on 23 December 2003. Two juries failed to reach a verdict and 65-year old George Edwin, who was charged with Terry’s murder, walked free. Terry’s killer is yet to be brought to justice.

STEPHEN COULSON. 53. October 29th 2006. Forest Gate. London.

Taken by paramedics to the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, 53-year-old Stephen Coulson, was fighting for his life after a stabbing near the Hudson Bay pub in Forest Gate’s Upton Lane.

A local authority cleaner from Beckton, Stephen was caught up in a pub brawl. Followed outside by, it was believed, three black men, Stephen was stabbed and later died in hospital. The three men ran off. Local detectives began a murder enquiry and called for witnesses to come forward. Two men were subsequently arrested and released on Police bail.

In November 2006, 51 – year-old Lincoln Peter was also arrested. On 11 November Peter, of Cape Close, Barking, was remanded in custody at a Saturday sitting of the Stratford Magistrates Court.

SAMANTHA ANDERSON. 29. October 28th 2006. Elswick, Newcastle.

Even hardened detectives were shocked at the horrific attack which left Newcastle nursery nurse Samantha Anderson dead – as confirmed in a Home Office autopsy - from multiple stab wounds. Her body was found in a Vallum Court, Westgate Road, Elswick room, soaked with petrol.
Samantha had previously shared her home with her 29-year-old Iraqi Kurd boyfriend, Ari Abdullah. Samantha, also 29, first met Abdullah in 2003. An asylum seeker whose status had expired on 27 October, 2006, he had lived with her from 2004. The couple separated in July or August 2006. Samantha had since moved out of the area. The tower block flat in which her body was found was that of her ex-boyfriend.
Samantha had called by to collect mail but was attacked by Abdullah who beat her about the head with a weight lifting belt and killed her. The gruesome find was made after a neighbour of the Kurdish ‘ex’ reported a strong smell of petrol. Detectives arrested Abdullah on suspicion of murder. Questioning continued the following day.

Police established that Samantha’s ex-boyfriend had lost his asylum seeker status but had re-applied for the continuation of that status. Detectives meanwhile gathered local CCTV footage of the route which Samantha had walked from her from her Buffer Bear Nursery, Newcastle, place of work.

Abdullah, a body builder and factory worker, was later sentenced to life imprisonment with the possibility of parole after just 12 years.

DAVID LEES. 23. October 28th 2006. Prestwich, Manchester.

David Lees died after being hit by a car in Greater Manchester after a racial incident, police have said. He died in hospital after being found collapsed on Middleton Road in Prestwich. The 23-year-old’s death followed a disturbance believed to have involved white and Asian men. A 25-year-old has been arrested on suspicion of Mr Lee’s murder.

About 20 people were seen arguing on the forecourt of a BP garage prior to the killing. Mr Lees, who was white, had been among people involved in a row with a group of Asian youths. Bizarrely, police described the incident as follows: “We are treating this as a racial incident, but the murder was not racially motivated.”

Independent eye witnesses claim the car was driven /aimed at the group of white youths three times at speeds of up to 70mph, and it was on the third such attempt that they managed to hit David, who was thrown 40 foot into air, with such force that his clothing and neck chain were detached from his body on impact.

If Whites in a car had deliberately aimed at a group of non-whites, there is no question that the police would have described the murder as “racially motivated.”

DAVID COCKRILL. 45. October 5th 2006. Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester.

Assaulted by two strangers on 23 September 2006, Cockrill was begging in Manchester when he was assaulted and left with a serious head injury.

Working his patch in Manchester City Centre, David (43) approached two men - one of whom was East European, the other of mixed race - asking for money. A vicious punch left the Lincolnshire-born beggar in need of an ambulance. Taken to Hope Hospital he clung to life for two long weeks but finally died from that injury. Manchester Police launched a murder enquiry and appealed for witnesses. The two men involved in the scuffle were asked to come forward.

The mixed race male was described as being of light skin colour, clean shaven and of thin build with a long face. Aged 23 to 25, he is 5’10” tall and was wearing a hooded white or beige anorak which hung below his waist. The East European had dark features and very short black hair. He wore a camouflage jacket and dark blue jeans. He was said to be 5’6” to 5’8” tall

WESTLEY ODGER. 27. September 2006. Colchester, Essex.

Mark and Andrew Fredericks, aged 32 and 37, appeared at Chelmsford Crown Court charged with the murder, in September, 2005, of Colchester man Westley Odger.

Convicted of murder, fellow Colchester resident Andrew Fredericks was sentenced to life and will serve at least 15 years. Mark Fredericks was found Not Guilty of murder but was sentenced to seven years for manslaughter. The duo, both black males, had been arrested in connection with an argument about alleged shoving - in a Nationwide cash point queue at the Hunwicke shops on Colchester’s Greenstead estate - which had led to Westley Odger being murdered.

Criticising Britain’s ‘terrible sub-culture of drugs and knives’, Judge C. Bell, Q.C., blasted the ‘angry, uncontrolled people’ who routinely carry weapons and to whose random violence we are all vulnerable. Westley Odger’s death, he said, was ‘a needless waste of life.’ Westley’s mother, Ann, said that his death had permanently affected the entire family and all because of this one barbaric and cowardly act.

DANIEL EASTERBROOK. 19. September 12th 2006. Havant Leigh Park, Portsmouth.

In September 2006, Havant’s Leigh Park, near Portsmouth, was the scene of a fight between a group of young white men and the Asian staff of the Spice of India takeaway. 19-year-old Daniel Easterbrook was found unconscious in the yard behind the takeaway.
He died after the fight, which raged in the Greywell Shopping Centre, in Cosham’s Queen Alexandra Hospital. Police later arrested a 26-year old Asian male and charged him with Daniel’s murder.

Alongside a tribute to Daniel from his distraught mother the BBC carried a Police statement that they wanted to hear from a 35 – year old, tall, blond white man who they believed had vital information. The Police, who had sealed the crime scene, were calling on the local white and ethnic communities to remain calm. They also announced the release on bail of a man arrested the day after the Spice of India street fight.

In November 2006 the above Asian male was still in custody and local police arrested two more men. On Monday 13 November two men, aged 43 and 40, from Worthing in Sussex appeared before magistrates in Portsmouth.

LISA BAMFORD. 32. August 22nd 2006. Oldham, Greater Manchester.

Sent to the scene of a violent row police officers arrived in Rothesay Road, in the Derker area of Oldham, to find 32 – year old Lisa Bamford mortally wounded by female Somalia neighbour Shukri Balil.

Balil was charged with Lisa’s murder and with two counts of attempted wounding with intent. She committed the offence on 22nd August 2006 and appeared at Manchester Crown Court on 1st September. She was found Guilty on 7th February 2007. On Friday 16th March she was sentenced to life imprisonment and ordered to serve 15 years before being eligible for parole.

The stabbing followed a loud argument which involved Bilal – who has a 5 – year old daughter and lived with her Portuguese boyfriend - when Bilal began to act aggressively, punches were traded.

Later, believing the argument to be over, the Bamfords were sitting in Lisa’s kitchen when Bilal entered through the back door waving a kitchen knife. Yelling that she was going to kill everyone in the house and trying to hit Lisa’s daughter, Bilal first of all delivered the fatal knife blow to Lisa’s neck. She also slashed the neck of Lisa’s sister’s boyfriend when he tried to stop Bilal. Eventually, Bilal was removed from the house. Lisa later died in Oldham’s Royal Hospital.

The argument, witnesses said, continued an earlier falling out over the two women’s children playing together and about untrue stories which Bilal had allegedly been spreading about Lisa’s daughter. Bilal had previously been close to the Bamfords, the latter helping Bilal, a refugee, with decoration, furniture and other household items. Bilal had claimed asylum and had been granted refugee status in February 2006.

PETER WOODHAMS. 22. August 21st 2006. Custom House, Canning Town, East London.

In late-September 2006 Metropolitan Police detectives were urgently looking for mixed race Canning Town teenager Bradley Tucker, believed to have been involved in a pre-shooting August altercation with murdered Canning Town man and satellite engineer Peter Woodhams.
Tucker, said the BBC, was not found in any of his usual haunts and was thought to have left the UK. Police later admitted that there was no documentary evidence to prove that Tucker had left the UK but they did not rule it out and duly alerted both Interpol and all UK ports and airports. Tucker, who shot Woodhams with a blank-firing starting pistol, converted to fire live ammunition, which has never been found, was labelled a dangerous fugitive who should not be approached.

Prior to the shooting Peter, 22, had been the target of “a long campaign of violence and intimidation” and was believed to have had a recent argument with Tucker and a group of youths outside a local row of shops. Peter had told the police of his fears not just for his own safety but for that of his partner and their young child.

Police wanted to question Tucker both about the above argument, shortly before Woodhams was shot, and a January 2006 incident in which Woodhams, again harassed by a group of youths who had stoned his car, was stabbed in the throat and slashed across the face. The neck wound narrowly missed his jugular vein.

There has been some basis for arguing that in their early handling of Peter Woodhams’ various contacts with Tucker the police ignored both Peter’s fears and repeated telephone calls which his fiancé Jane Bowden had made, after the stabbing, unsuccessfully asking the Police, over a period of five weeks, to take a statement. The police were reputedly given anonymous tip-offs naming several suspects who had boasted of the January attack.

It was also argued that the police failed to treat the gang’s harassment of Tucker, especially in the seven months between the stabbing and the shooting, as being racially motivated. In August 2006 the Metropolitan Police apologised to Peter’s partner and family and the Independent Police Complaints Commission, IPCC, announced that it was beginning an investigation into the police’s handling of the case.

A family friend said that the police had done too little, too late and had ‘blood on their hands’. On 28th March 2007 The Times reported that “Nine officers face an independent misconduct inquiry into allegations that they failed to investigate the assault.”

Peter Woodhams left behind a grieving fiancée and a 3-year-old son. In the early evening of 21 August 2006 Peter had confronted Tucker and his gang. Tucker was heard to make threats. A few minutes later, he went to Woodham’s house. Woodhams went outside, speaking to the youths in Leslie Road, and was shot. He staggered towards the family home, in Tallis Close, Canning Town, but collapsed in the garden. He died there a short while later.

The day before his sentencing Bradley Tucker pleaded guilty to manslaughter and told the court how he had meant only to scare Peter Woodhams, that he did not think the gun would actually fire a bullet. Tucker’s teenage look-out accomplice was found Not Guilty of murder and manslaughter.

A senior police officer told reporters that officers were continuing their belated investigation of Peter’s January 2006 stabbing. The pattern of police officers turning a blind eye to or minimising the suffering of white victims of racial harassment and violence is, however, so common that it is all too likely that the proper lessons will not be learned without further such tragedies and a prolonged campaign for white civil rights.

PETER JONES. 38. August 14th 2006. Victoria Dock Road, East Ham, London.

Thirty-eight year-old father of three Peter Jones died on the morning of Monday 14th August 2006. Stabbing his East Ham victim in the neck, during a car park row, outside the Victoria pub and next to the Custom House Hotel, Peter’s murderer also wounded Peter’s 20-year-old nephew Adrian Rowe.

The attack occurred at 10.15pm on Saturday 12th August 2006. The killer ran off. Peter, of Blenheim Road, E6, and Adrian, said a Newham Police website statement, were taken to hospital. Adrian was treated and discharged. Peter, who left a wife, a 16-year-old daughter and twin 3-year-old girls, later died in hospital.

Witnesses described the attacker as being slim and of mixed race (the Police website statement said ‘dark-skinned and of Mediterranean appearance’) and 6’3” tall. He looked to be 30 to 35 years old.

In October 2006 Newham Police said that they wanted to question 47-year-old Terry O’Neil. O’Neil, Jones and Rowe had all been in the Victoria pub before the stabbing. On the night of Peter’s death, O’Neil had been wearing a dark blue zipped tracksuit top and a dark baseball cap. The public were urged not to approach O’Neil but to report any sightings to the Police.

On 22nd December 2006 BBC News On-line reported that mixed race Newham murder suspect Terry O’Neil had been arrested in Amsterdam. O’Neil, who had still not been charged, was arrested at least a week before the news of his detention. He would be returned to the UK, said the BBC, in the New Year.

STEVEN JEEVES. 39. July 26th 2006. Penrose Court, Hemel Hempstead.

Bad news travels fast. And so it did when a 43-year-old Hemel Hempstead woman was told by neighbours of a gang attack on her husband and son, Steven and John Jeeves.

Robbed, kicked and punched to the ground Steven Jeeves, 39, was overwhelmed when six or more men leapt out of a car, near some local shops, and pounced on him. John Jeeves (23) tried to protect his father but was unable to. John was uninjured but Steven, suffering from the bad beating and from fatal stab wounds, was rushed to Hemel Hempstead Hospital. He died there in the early hours of Tuesday 26th July.
Police arrested and questioned seven black youths. On the Thursday a 20-year-old man was detained on suspicion of murder. Prior to that arrest police had arrested and would subsequently charge with violent disorder, Shingi Maenzanise , 20, of Dunlin Road, Hemel Hempstead and a 17-year-old juvenile. A third male, Babatunde Onanuga, aged 18, of Wootton Drive, Hemel Hempstead, was charged with perverting the course of justice.

On the Saturday following Steven Jeeves’s murder, Hemel Hempstead Police sought a detention order and asked that all three men be remanded in custody. A 15-year-old also appeared before the same court the time he was sixteen was found guilty of the murder.
A quiet, homely, man Steven Jeeves almost never went out socially. His outing to the Herald Sporting Club, in Henry Wells Square near his Penrose Court, Grove Hill home, was a rare treat. Steven left a widow and six sons aged 11 – 23. He also left a baby grand-daughter.

JOHN CURRAN. 52. July 7th 2006. Highbury & Islington Station, North London.

On 16 October 2006, 20-year-old Mehmed Bala appeared at the Old Bailey accused of the July murder of John Curran. Remanded in custody by Horseferry Road magistrates, Bala, of Lower Clapton, East London, was accused of pushing John Curran, 52 and a construction company machine operator working in North Greenwich, from a Highbury and Islington Tube station platform and in front of a train. CCTV footage identified a number of witnesses and, especially, some witnesses who chased Curran’s killer.

Curran had lived in England since moving from Ireland in 1971. This Is Local London Today reported that a section of the Victoria Line was closed for forensic examination from the Friday till the Monday. Bala, a schizophrenic and recently a voluntary patient at a East London psychiatric hospital, pleaded Not Guilty to the murder of an unknown person. His Not Guilty plea to murder was viewed by the Judge as ‘proper and appropriate’ and Bala pleaded Guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. He made no application for bail.
Observer staff writer Amelia Hill wrote that Bala – who had been seen frequently at the City and Hackney Centre for Mental Health - faced life in a secure unit. A senior psychiatrist at the above hospital Bala told the Observer that Bala “had been released from the hospital on leave because he seemed well. He was a very unusual case: the voices in his head had dampened down. His behaviour came completely out of the blue.”

Just days after the publication of the Government’s own disturbing report on avoidable deaths, Marjorie Wallace, the chief executive of the mental health charity Sane, told the BBC that the Bala – Curran case was yet another scenario in which a person may unnecessarily have lost his life. “There are 55 homicides and 1300 suicides committed each year by someone with mental illness or disorders who had been in contact with mental health services.” A Curran family statement mourned “a good man, loved by all.”

STEPHEN KEEN. Flight Lieutenant. 54. July 6th 2006. RAF Lyneham, Wiltshire.

Royal Air Force commanders are no strangers to the task of writing letters of condolences to the families of personnel who have died serving with the Colours. Some personnel die in action, others through accidents while a minority die as the result of natural causes and occasional crime.

RAF Lyneham’s Flight Lieutenant Stephen Keen was one of that minority. Stabbed in the neck and throat, in a house in Tiverton, Devon, Stephen, 54, later died in hospital.

Police arrested and charged with murder one Francesco Matta, a Sardinian who gave an address in Cagliari. Matta, 55, appeared before Essex Magistrates.

Shocked and stunned, Stephen’s friends and family staged a vigil beside the growing display of cards and flowers begun by local townsfolk.

NICK PADGET. 27. July 2nd 2006. Ealing, London.

With a single punch, alleged the prosecution in a Old Bailey trial, pub bouncer Kevin Griffith caused the death of O’Neill’s pub drinker Nick Padget.

After seven hours of intense discussion, stated a Chiswick local news website, the jury recently decided that Griffith was Not Guilty of manslaughter and the 6’2” doorman walked free from court.

Although Griffith (30) was found Not Guilty the incident provoked much local controversy. Kevin Griffith had only just completed his doorman training and was not yet fully licensed when he worked his first shift at O’Neill’s pub in Ealing. Earlier in the evening, with a group of friends, 27 – year – old Ealing man Nick Padget had been drinking in Chiswick. They made their way to O’Neill’s bar and by 01.00a.m. Nick Padget was the worse for wear and drunkenly, though, reportedly, not offensively, buttonholing and speaking to strangers.

Round about 01.00 a.m., as shown on CCTV, Griffith was ushering Nick and friends out of the pub but had targeted Nick for special attention and was marching him out in an armlock.

According to Griffith, Nick had called him both ‘a jobsworth’ and a ‘w****r’. Nick had allegedly slapped Griffith, though some witness evidence stated that Nick had merely brushed Griffith’s face.

Whatever the reality of Nick’s behaviour the prosecution argued that Nick, being bumblingly drunk and, at 5’ 8”, standing 6 inches shorter than Griffith, presented no real threat to the dark-skinned doorman. Griffith, the prosecution continued, had over-reacted in anger and frustration and had delivered a needlessly forceful punch which was, for Nick Padget, a death blow. Taken to Ealing Hospital Nick later died there and Griffith was charged with manslaughter.

Other issues raised by the prosecution were that having hit Nick Padget Griffith allegedly did not call an ambulance and did not tell fellow pub staff about the incident. He was also, when later questioned by his boss, said to have denied hitting Nick. All these matters notwithstanding the Old Bailey jury decided that Kevin Griffith was Not Guilty and the family of Nick Padget must have been left wondering how they would now lay to rest their understandably confused emotions.

We have included the killing of Nick Padget in this list on the basis that, had a powerfully-built white doorman been involved in the death of a defenceless coloured victim, the case and its lack of resolution would have become a cause celebre for the –anti-racist’ left and would without doubt have featured in the IRR list.

JOHN COOPER TAYLOR. 60. July 1st 2006. Cypress Road, Croydon.

Try to imagine a still-bloody murder victim with 135 stab wounds. That was the number of injuries noted when a police doctor gave up counting the wounds inflicted upon elderly victim John Cooper Taylor.

Neither the doctor nor experienced police officers had ever before witnessed such savagery. A police source was quoted as saying that John had been killed while trying to defend his 84-year-old neighbour Barbara Coliver. Barbara had been disturbed and confronted by a man in her home. Police officers arrived after midnight and found two blood-covered bodies on the floor. According to the IC London website, a neighbour said that John Cooper Taylor “was butchered. Even experienced Police officers had never seen anything like it.”

Taylor was widely respected by other residents in his closely-knit Croydon community. A handyman who undertook all sorts of repairs for his neighbours, John helped other elderly residents and also made weekly collections of recycling materials. His death shocked a community still reeling from the recent knifing of a young woman.

Homeless Rafiq Hassain Kasmin (48) was remanded in custody, till 02 October 2006, by Croydon magistrates. He faced charges of murder and attempted murder and was referred for trial to the Old Bailey.

ANNE MENDEL. 84. June 27th 2006. Golders Green, N.W. London.

On 27 June 2006, the media watched with ill-concealed anticipation the sentencing of teenage millionaire’s daughter and alleged murderess Kemi Adeyoola. One of few such cases, the killing of a white person by a non-white, to gain serious media coverage, this case centred upon the Prosecution’s allegation that Adeyoola murdered frail, elderly, Anne Mendel and that she chose Mendel as a ‘soft target’ in a callous crime which followed Adeyoola’s planning of such an offence while she was previously detained in a Young Offenders’ Institution.

Found guilty of stabbing Mrs. Mendel 14 times, Adeyoola was a former neighbour of her elderly victim. Just 17 when she committed the awful crime. Adeyoola had, in her Bulford Hall YOI cell, written up a murder manual. Released from Bulford Hall after a short sentence for shoplifting, Adeyoola coldly plotted and carried out Mrs. Mendel’s murder.

Seasoned detectives and reporters were shocked by Adeyoola’s admission that Mrs. Mendel’s murder was merely ‘practice’ for future similar attacks on other elderly and rich victims. Mrs. Mendel’s body was found behind her door when her husband returned from an errand. Telephone wires had been ripped out, there was blood on the walls and his wife’s lifeless body was lying in the hallway.

Official criticism of Adeyoola’s post-detention monitoring team included the revelation that her above, confiscated, murder manual was passed by Bulford Hall staff to the Barnet Youth Offending Team, which included local police officers. Mrs. Mendel’s murder came just four weeks after the expiry of Adeyoola’s Barnet Youth Offending Team supervisory order.

MICHAEL CHAPMAN. 16. June 16th 2006. Sittingbourne, Kent.

Sixteen year-old Michael was walking within the grounds of Gore Court Cricket Club in Sittingbourne with his brother and their girlfriends when he was set upon in an “unprovoked and gratuitous attack”. Michael, described by friends as “quiet and popular” had been out celebrating his final GCSE exam when he was beaten to death.

Two teenagers, brothers from India, were arrested in Sittingbourne the evening after the attack. An immigration source confirmed that the two had lodged an asylum application.

MALCOLM BARNETT. 43. June 15th 2006, Hunter’s Hill Road, Dagenham, East London.

On 15th June 2006 Dagenham man Malcolm Barnett died from serious head injuries sustained five days earlier during a vicious beating in his Hunter’s Hill Road, Dagenham, home.

Attacked in his bedroom Malcolm was set upon by six hooded black men. The attackers, who had gained entry through the unlocked back door of the house, had moments earlier demanded cash from two women in the house. The two women, aged 44 and 21, allegedly suffered minor injuries. Using a baseball bat they then attacked the sleeping Malcolm.

The attackers were said to have been in their late – teens and early twenties. One man was white or of mixed race. The attackers then fled on foot later leaving the area, in Witham Road, in a dark-coloured saloon car.

On 19th October 2006 the BBC announced that three men, one aged 21 two aged 19, were “arrested in connection with the murder of a man in his bed during a burglary. The suspects were questioned and released on bail until November.” A senior police officer told reporters that “the address was specifically targeted, this was not a random attack.”

KALLY GILLIGAN. 15. June 12th 2006. Lower Broughton, Salford.

A brilliant GCSE student, Kally Gilligan was blonde, beautiful and just 15 when her black, 18-year-old boyfriend, Joshua Thompson, shot her (in the head and neck) then killed himself with a sawn-off shotgun.

The couple had met at Salford’s Albion High School. They had been together for some two years when, two weeks before she died, Kally ended the relationship. Thompson could not accept her rejection and was heard, during an early hours row before the shooting, telling her that if he could not have her no-one else would.

Thompson appeared with a shotgun outside Kally’s home while she was washing the family car on 10th June 2006. Another argument began but this one ended with Thompson shooting first Kally then himself.

GARY PAINTER. 39. June 5th 2006. Waltham Forest, E. London.

Last seen alive on Sunday 04 June 2006, in the nearby Jack’s Pub, Arsenal fan Gary Painter died, said the police, on Monday 5th June. He was found in his Salop Road, Walthamstow, home on the afternoon of Thursday 08 June 2006.

A weekend post-mortem established ‘strangulation’ as the cause of death. The police, believed that the father of two, locally well known, might have offered a bed for the night to a stranger he had met in Jack’s pub.

Police charged a unemployed man, 34-year-old Kenneth Osei-Bonsu, with Gary’s murder. Osei – Bonsu later appeared at Waltham Forest Magistrates Court.

JOLENE COLPUS. 19. June 3rd 2006. Basingstoke, Hampshire.

When first interrogated by Basingstoke Police 22-year-old drug gang boss Kieran Simei denied knowing and killing 19-year old murder victim Jolene Colpus. Simei, of New Cross Gate, London eventually attempted a manslaughter plea but a jury found him Guilty of murder and he was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Trapped by CCTV footage of him stabbing Jolene, a junior member of his mini-drugs empire, Simei claimed, during his 5-day Winchester Crown Court trial that, although the 20 centimetre blade penetrated the entire thickness of Jolene’s body and sliced through a major vein, the fatal knife thrust was ‘an accident’.

The stabbing took place on Saturday 3rd June 2006 at Winterthur Way, Basingstoke. Simei was clearly shown on CCTV footage thrusting forward the hand which held the murder weapon. Jolene was seen holding her arms across her body, turning away from Simei and running into her flat. After the above incident, Jolene’s body lay undiscovered, in a pool of congealed blood, for nine days.

In sentencing Simei, the Judge said that the killer should serve at least 17 years. In 2003, Simei was sentenced to 18 months for possession of drugs with intent to supply and with Police assault.

KYNAN ELDRIDGE. 31. June 2nd 2007.Mansfield.

The parents of Kynan Eldridge attacked the jail sentence handed out to a man who killed their son in a “vicious, brutal and frenzied” assault.
Abderrahmen Dhaou stabbed Kynan Eldridge to death in a row over rent for a room at Dhaou’s home in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. A judge sentenced Dhaou to jail for the public’s protection and said he would serve at least three years.

But Peter and Annie Eldridge said no sentence was long enough. Leicester Crown Court heard that Dhaou was an alcoholic cannabis user who was suffering from a depressive illness at the time. He pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
After the attack Dhaou, 36, a Tunisian national, daubed a message in Arabic on his living room wall for police to find. He said he had taken revenge on Mr Eldridge after being made to “look foolish”.

Judge Michael Pert QC said Dhaou would serve a minimum of three years before he could be considered for parole on a life licence. The judge also recommended that Dhaou be deported on his release.

In a statement after the hearing, Mr Eldridge’s parents said: “This man has robbed us of our only child, our health and dreams for the future. “He’s received just three years - we’ve received a life sentence.”

Mrs Eldridge added: “This attack was a straightforward stabbing. It was over something comparatively trivial but the attack was vicious, brutal and frenzied.”

FREDERICK GOODMAN. 62. April 19th 2006. Hulme, Manchester.

In April 2006 Manchester Police charged Dawn Birch, of Royce Road, Hulme, Manchester and Abdul Malik Ali, of Thames Court, Old Trafford, with the murder of 62 –year-old former window cleaner Frederick Goodman, after his worried family called the police when they could get no reply at his flat in Royce Road, Hulme.

According to a Government News Network / Department of Constitutional Affairs website review, Frederick Goodman’s body lay in his home for 3 weeks before its discovery by police officers on 19 April 2006.

Frederick “had befriended Dawn Birch, who lived with him. Unknown to him, Dawn Birch was conducting a relationship with Abdul Malik. It was the Crown’s case that Mr. Goodman had been bound and gagged and had violence inflicted upon him and that they were Guilty of murder.”
On 01 November 2006 the prosecution closed its case and the Crown accepted pleas of manslaughter. On 02 November Birch and Malik were each sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment.

RAYMOND GANGE. 69. April 17th 2006. Derby.

Retired forklift truck driver Raymond Gange, father of two, grandfather of six and great-grandad of seven, was ferociously beaten to death by an ethnic hoody gang. Mr Gange was returning from a family party, when he was attacked by the gang.

Shaun Johns, 18, of Stowmarket Drive, Chaddesden, Derby was convicted of Mr Gange’s murder. Calvin Grant, 17, of Normanton, Derby, was cleared of murder but convicted of manslaughter. Mixed race Jak Jones, 18, of no fixed abode, had previously admitted the murder of Mr Gange. Career criminals Jones and Johns had only just been released from prison. The court heard the youths had spent the evening prowling the streets of Derby looking for someone to rob before attacking Mr Gange.

A post morten examination showed Mr Gange died of multiple head injuries, due to being punched, kicked and stamped on. Forensic examinations of the scene and cuts and scrapes to Mr Gange’s body suggested he was assaulted and thrown over a hedge. Two vertebrae in Mr Gange’s neck were also fractured. Jones and Johns have since admitted stabbing and robbing a man in Derby the day before killing Mr Gange.
Jones also pleaded guilty to the attempted robbery of a man, at knifepoint, four days later. In a letter to his local newspaper some days before his murder, Mr Gange wrote “Criminals given soft sentences often re-offend, yet victims’ families get a life sentence.

Build as many prisons as need be and let life be life.”

MARK CONWAY. 28. April 4th 2006. Hull.

Mark Conway was stabbed 15 times where he worked as a shift manager at Land Food Products, Hullm after he called into his office to tell off Saman Sali Karim, 26, who had arrived 4 hours late for work.

Karim was “in a strop” as he had not been allowed to have the day off. After the attack, he escaped to a flat in Folkestone, Kent, but was later arrested by armed police.

The court heard Karim had a history of violence and was known to carry knives if he thought there would be a fight. Defence counsel Richard Barraclough QC, said Karim had been tortured under the old regime in Iraq and arrived in the UK as a refugee in July 1999.

The court heard Karim had a history of violence and was known to carry knives if he thought there would be a fight. Judge Michael Mettyear recommended a minimum term of 16 years and 133 days.

JOHN WARD. 22. March 21st 2006. St. Osyth, Essex.

It was at first said that John Ward, a 22-year-old living in the quiet seaside village of St. Osyth in Essex, was killed by an Asian or Turkish gunman.

The probable victim of mistaken identity in a gangland killing that went wrong, John Ward had opened his front door to a stranger who was asking about someone else. John, who was engaged and planning his marriage, invited the stranger into the hallway of his family home. The stranger then left John’s home and John closed the front door only to be fatally wounded in the neck when a shotgun was fired through the door.

A week after the shooting Essex Police revisited the scene of the crime and questioned a large number of drivers and pedestrians. A computer E – fit of the chief suspect was also released. By May 2007, Essex Police had arrested, charged and brought to trial three men, Vishnu Bhaskaran, Mill Road, Colchester, Martin Valentine, South Ockenden and Steven Walker of Fernwood Road, Holland –on-Sea.
All were charged with and all denied John Ward’s murder. They appeared at Chelmsford Crown Court in late May 2007.

In a dramatic twist to the case the above trial was halted to allow Essex Police to extradite two other suspects from Spain. A successful Police search for David Taylor, 40, and Peter Jones, 38, tracked the duo down to a Spanish hideaway. Both men, who were described as of No Fixed Abode, appeared at Chelmsford Crown Court and were remanded in custody. The trial resumed in November 2007.

LYNN SAVERY. 19. March 17th 2006. Radcliffe, Greater Manchester.

Lynn Savery, 19, was found dead in her home in Radcliffe, Greater Manchester. She had been strangled. Ashfaq Khan, of New Cateaton Street, Bury, had pleaded not guilty to murder but was convicted by a jury at Manchester Crown Court. The judge said he would serve a minimum of 17 years in prison.

Savery’s body was discovered by her mother and stepfather on 2 September 2005. Her one-year-old daughter Mia was found close by but was unharmed. During his trial, the court heard that Khan had both physically and sexually abused Ms Savery during their three-year relationship.

JAMES HAYHOE. 21. February 12th 2006. Bath

A Student was killed by two mixed-race strangers after they took offence at the way he greeted a friend, a jury heard yesterday. Bath Spa University student James Hayhoe, 21, had made a noise like a telephone ringing as he greeted a friend just moments before he was fatally punched in the head outside a Bath nightclub.

The court heard that the noise was often made by fans of hip hop as a way of expressing their enthusiasm for the music. Bristol Crown Court heard that two mixed-race teenagers had gone on to attack Mr Hayhoe outside the former Playground nightclub on Spring Gardens Road after hearing the greeting. The environmental sciences student died two weeks later of a fractured skull.

On the opening day of the manslaughter trial, the prosecution said Mr Hayhoe had been struck by Kio Russell during a fracas involving the defendant’s pal, Courtney Campbell, who was apparently offended by the hip-hop greeting.

Giving evidence in their trial, student Jordan Srokowski told how he arrived at the Playground with friends and had been welcomed by Mr Hayhoe who he said made a “brrrr brrrr” noise. He said they were then surrounded by a gang.

“There was a mere shaking of hands and saying hello to each other. I noticed a group of males standing around some benches. “From nowhere several of the males came over addressing us rather aggressively. We were pretty much surrounded by them.

“One of them was aggressive and seemed to pick on James. There were about five or six of them. We had not said anything to that group. “In no time at all some of them started running around us. There was abuse being thrown at James.

“I turned my head because I thought I had to watch my own back. Straight after that I heard girls screaming and saw James lying on the floor with one of the males shouting abuse at him.”

Mr Srokowski said he saw a man in a white tracksuit standing over his prone pal swearing and yelling “You think you are it” and “That’s what you get for messing with me” and asking if he wanted a “smacking”.

Asked by Noel Sweeney, prosecuting, if he and Mr Hayhoe had meant to be insulting when they made the hip-hop ringing sound, Mr Srokowski said: “No. He said ‘hi’ to me and made that noise.

“There was nothing else behind it.” He explained: “There’s a certain noise you make for appreciation of that music that you hear at concerts.
“There was nothing insulting.” Mr Sweeney told the jury how blood and fluid had seeped from Mr Hayhoe’s left ear when two ambulance paramedics arrived at the scene at 12.16am.

The fatally injured man was rushed to the Royal United Hospital in Bath, where he was found to be confused. He was given a scan which revealed bleeding in his brain. He was transferred to the Frenchay Hospital in Bristol to undergo surgery but was pronounced dead at 10.20am on February 25. A pathologist found he had suffered a fractured skull.

When Campbell was interviewed by police he said Russell was responsible for the blow to Mr Hayhoe and denied hitting anyone himself.
Russell told officers he had arrived at the club on his bike and saw Campbell arguing with four men. He said he thought his friend was going to get beaten up so he punched one of the men. “When his head hit the floor it sounded like a drum,” he told officers.

SERENA MAHONEY. 26. February 28th 2006, St. Alban’s.

Sentenced in March 2007, black murderer Aaron Venna was convicted by the jury, at St. Alban’s Crown Court, of the violent and sadistic killing of Serena Mahoney. Murdered just yards from her houseboat, in Windmill Lane, Cheshunt, Serena was attacked by Venna in a rage which saw him stamp on her face three times and sexually assault her. Builder’s labourer Venna was working on a nearby building site and living in a youth hostel, stamped so hard that he left an imprint of his trainer’s sole. Having delivered what police sources said was ‘a significant blow’, he dumped her in the River Lee and left her to drown.

When removed from the river, Serena’s body was in a state of undress but there was no immediate sign of a sexual assault. Nor had she been robbed. Local residents had reported hearing a late-night scream. Some thought it was a wild animal. CCTV cameras caught Serena (26) and Venna separately leaving the The Maltster’s pub. Venna is then seen walking behind his victim on the riverbank path.

Serena (26), originally from Middlesex, lived in a houseboat with her boyfriend. Cheshunt Police launched a murder enquiry which included Metropolitan Police divers searching the River Lee.

At the conclusion of a two week trial, the Judge ordered that Venna, whose girlfriend was seven and a half months pregnant, should serve a minimum of 25 years before being considered for parole.

PATRICK ROACHE. 23. January 29th 2006. Northampton.

The growing memorial of flowers and other tributes reminded Northampton residents of the murder in Abingdon Square, outside the Xpress Chicken Takeaway, of local man Patrick Roache.

Enjoying life as a young father, he left behind a distraught partner and a baby son named Jacob. 22-year-old plumber Patrick was stabbed through the heart at around 11p.m. He died, in the early hours of the next day, at Northampton General Hospital.

The large police team investigating his death joined with forensic personnel in the fingertip search for the murder weapon. The search included a check of local drains and turned up a knife which was removed for scientific examination.

Forty eight hours after Patrick’s death, a 33-year-old black man, Shaun Powell, handed himself in at a local police station. Detectives interviewing Powell charged him with Patrick’s murder. Powell appeared at Northampton Magistrates Court on 29 January 2006 and was ordered to appear for trial at Northampton Crown Court.

CHRISTOPHER DAVIS. 17. January 19th 2006. Barking, East London.

The entrance to Upney Station, Barking, witnessed a January 2006 fracas in which seven black and mixed race youths jostled a friend of Christopher Smith. 17-year old Christopher tried to stop the shoving but was stabbed. Paramedics tried to keep him alive but he was pronounced dead on arrival at Ilford’s King George’s Hospital, killed a single abdominal wound.

In their investigation of Christopher’s death Barking police arrested and questioned seven individuals. One of Curtis’s attackers, also 17, was charged and arraigned at a local court. On 15 August 2006, BBC News On-line reported that a 17-year old youth who could not be named had been found guilty of murdering Chris.

ZELIA HARRISON. 32. January 17th 2006. Millfield, Peterborough.

At Cambridge Crown Court, in May 2006, Wakil Sahebzadeh (28) pleaded guilty to the murder of 32-year old prostitute Zelia Harrison. The daughter of a publican, Zelia had been stabbed six times and her half-naked, bloody corpse left in a car park at Peterborough’s Gladstone Community Centre.

The Peterborough Telegraph newspaper reported how the prostitute had carried a knife for her own protection but Afghan illegal immigrant Wakil Sahebzadeh used it against her in a frenzied, fatal onslaught.

A series of reports in the Peterborough Telegraph stories revealed how:

•  Zelia, suffered stab wounds to her legs, buttocks and heart
• Police traced Zelia’s Afghan killer in just one week and had unprecedented support from Zelia’s fellow prostitutes
•  Police called in a top sniffer dog, at a cost of £530 a day, to help find the murder weapon
• Police delayed judicial proceedings while waiting for the services of one of Britain’s only two Pashtun legal interpreters
• Investigating Officers were granted extra time to question Sahedzadeh, who turned out to be an illegally resident Afghan asylum seeker; he had come to the UK in 2001 and had originally been granted a term of residency while pursuing a claim that he feared the wrath of the Taliban. The killer’s ‘exceptional leave’ 4 – year residency permit expired in July 2005
• Mobile phone records placed Sahebzadeh in Dover so detectives knew that he was trying to leave the UK
•  Detectives rightly reasoned that to leave Britain and to return to Afghanistan Zelia’s killer would need the help of the Afghan Embassy. Detectives staked out the entrance to the embassy and arrested Sahebzadeh when he arrived there seeking official assistance; the cunning killer was found to be seeking his government’s help with false documents.
• Sahebzadeh initially denied knowing and killing Zelia Harrison but finally admitted the crime.
• The killer’s DNA was already in the Police’s national DNA database and a positive match was made
  In late May 2006 Sahebzadeh was sentenced to life imprisonment and ordered to serve at least 15 years

JASON JOHN MAYZE. January 13th 2006. St. Helen’s, Lancashire.

A former student of Sutton High Sports College, 16-year-old Jason Mayze lived on Beechwood Close, St. Helen’s. On 13 January 2006 Jason was stabbed by 37-year old Balti Spice takeaway chef Bosher Uddin.

A father of three Bangladeshi who lived in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, and who had come to the UK in 1994, Uddin was charged with Jason’s murder but successfully pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter.

The entire case hinged on two points of law and perception: First, whether or not Uddin intended to kill or to seriously injure Jason. The victim’s mother, Angie Mayze, believed not only that Uddin had had a racial motive in killing her son but that the police were negligently failing to class the attack as racial, that a ‘cover up’ was underway and that Uddin’s 3-year jail sentence, with the option of early release after just 18 months was, ‘a disgrace’. Certainly it is clear that, by refusing to accept her assessment of the killing as racially motivated, the police were – as is so often the case when white victims are involved – in breach of the McPherson recommendations.

The secondary key point argued in court was whether Jason, known to his friends as Jay-Jay, had stolen a box of chicken from a container behind the Balti Spice or, as his mother claims, was planning to pay for it with the five pound note which he had in his hand when paramedics arrived and found him bleeding heavily from a fatal, 6-inch long, armpit arterial slash wound.

It was a Saturday night when Jason was confronted, in the alley behind the Balti Spice restaurant, by knife-wielding Bosher Uddin. Holding a box of chicken Jason was accused by Uddin of having stolen it from a container near the back door of the restaurant.

Jason allegedly argued with Uddin and Uddin, still carrying the knife with which he had been preparing vegetables inside the restaurant, grabbed Jason in a bear hug. During their struggle, Uddin said it was accidental, Uddin’s knife ripped a 6-inch gash in an artery in one of Jason’s armpits. Jason died in hospital three days later.

Uddin appeared in court on 29th June 2006 and the proceedings were carried forward to early August. At Liverpool Crown Court the prosecution later accepted Uddin’s plea of manslaughter and admitted that there were no eye witnesses to the incident, that a pathologist agreed that Uddin’s version of events could be true and that the fatal injury was a extremely unusual type of wound.

The prosecution acknowledged Uddin’s claim that he had not intended to kill Jason or to cause him serious harm but still, successfully, urged the jury to find Uddin Guilty of manslaughter. The Judge recognised Uddin’s claimed remorse and the fact that he had been given two character testimonials, one from the former MP Sir Cyril Smith and another from the Lib-Dem MP Paul Rowen, but noted that during his Police interviews Uddin had repeatedly lied and given different versions of the events of that fateful evening. The Judge told Uddin “I have a low opinion of your honesty.”

The Judge said that he had been influenced by Uddin’s ‘almost good’ character – Uddin had repeatedly lied to detectives and also had a previous conviction, for assault, from his early teenage years – but had felt compelled to impose the maximum sentence of three years. Jason’s mother, meanwhile, still felt angry and robbed of justice.

She also maintained her belief in the alleged racial nature of the incident, telling reporters that a Union Jack floral tribute left at the scene had been trampled on and broken up. On 13 August she and 20 friends and relatives protested outside Liverpool Crown Court wearing T – shirts with the slogan ‘Justice for Jay-Jay’.

THOMAS AP RHYS PRYCE. 31. January 12th 2006. Willesden, North London.

Shortly after they had mugged a middle-aged man, Delano Brown (18) and Donnel Carty (19) picked on 31 – year old City lawyer Thomas ap Rhys Pryce. Thomas was only yards away from his Bathurst Gardens, Willesden, home when Carty and Brown mugged him, taking his cash, his mobile phone and his bank cards. Thomas resisted.

Having at first walked away from Thomas the black duo caught up with him and stabbed him in the head, hands and body. Later the youths were seen running into Clifford Gardens, as the young lawyer died surrounded by blood-stained print-outs of possible venues for his wedding.
When they were eventually arrested and charged with murder Carty and Brown blamed each other. In the early phase of Metropolitan Police enquiries, Assistant Commissioner Tarique Ghaffur condemned both the viciousness of the youths’ attack on Thomas and the ‘appalling injuries’ which they inflicted upon him. The Assistant Commissioner promised that “my officers will explore every avenue, leaving no stone unturned in their pursuit of these youths.”

The Judge said that while it was not clear who wielded the knife both men were equally responsible. Thomas, the Judge said, died because he had resisted the robbery. Although the Crown conceded some doubt as to Carty’s intention to kill Thomas the court had heard how Carty had written a rap song in which he had “boasted of his willingness to kill.”

A few weeks earlier Carty had allegedly been part of a gang of black youths who had mugged and assaulted a 34-year old woman. While fleeing the scene of the robbery Carty had been arrested but the Police had had to release him without charge when the victim proved unable to identify him as a member of the gang. Brown, it was noted, had compiled a hoard of news clippings about the Ap Rhys Pryce killing.

At the Old Bailey Carty and Brown were each jailed for life. Carty was to serve a minimum of 21 years and Brown “would not be considered for release until he ha