Did you know about this other attempted beheading?

It is two tier. She has gone to prison for 15 years, whereas the Nottingham killer goes to hospital.

I have a family member who was a sociol worker. The worst things she regularly dealt with were “worse” than the cases that made waves in the media- it’s just the way it goes to be honest.

im surprised this wasn’t a bigger story, but the Belfast incident was filmed and members of f the public intervened so I guess it was “noisier”

Can you provide a list of attempted beheadings in the UK in the last 5 years, with demographic info on the perps?

Do you have statistics on religiously or racially motivated attacks?

Or is this just a vibes-based position on your part?

Of course this is a far right racist attack, what else could it be? The facts are plain.

Each loss of life is equal. The harm is the same.

But far far far more people have been killed by extremist Islamist terrorism in this country than far right nationalist attacks. The numbers don’t even come close.

There’s no point playing the ‘what about’ game.

I suppose this is the latest deflective tactic. Compare the different ways of butchery. The fact we are even talking about beheading in 2026 is shocking in itself. No pattern though.

Edited for spelling mistake.

I take it your eyes are working. If they not, I can't help I'm afraid.

Seriously? Sod off with your faux innocence

But I am serious.

If you can't clearly describe the pattern that you think you have seen, then it might be bias from reading too many right wing news sources.

Yes I did hear about it, it happened in an area I used to live in and was widely reported. People were shocked at her age and how young she appears for such a terrible crime.

Both incidents are horrible..innocent people suffered:(. Is the motive behind both incidents the same?

Do you think we shouldn't report or care about migrants attacking British on our streets? People we've allowed into our country, supported financially? Is that what this post is about?

A man is left lying in hospital, partially blinded and has been subjected to a terrifying attack where the butcher wanted to take his life. All this mulling over whether he intended to behead him or whether any white people have done the same, is nothing but not wanting to face uncomfortable truths. Far better to be seen as anything other than racist. I'd rather be accused of that than find any way to keep minimising and apologising for these continuing barbaric acts which have a similar well documented pattern.

My sister has autism and bulimia. She hasn’t tried to behead anybody, nor have the overwhelming majority of anybody else with either of those conditions.

She didn’t kill him, but she set out to.

In the last few decades we've seen some big changes in how people get news. The arrival of cable TV, digital channels, internet etc has made it possible to put out news stories all day long, endlessly repeated, and when a really nasty crime is reported over and over again on all media it makes more of an impact on the public than in the old days when it was on the front page of a newspaper one day and chip wrappings the next. This has left a lot of people with the impression that crime is worse than it used to be, which is not the case.

Also, people used to get their news from newspapers, the BBC, ITV and Channel 4. Whatever you think of them, they're all regulated within the UK. What's taken their place is social media, which is not properly regulated at all, not run from the UK and is incredibly sophisticated in the way it feeds articles to users based on algorithms. If you show an interest in stories about puppies or knitting or football, you get more of the same. If the thing that really gets you going is migration, you get more of that, but with no guarantee whatsoever that what people are saying about it is true. This has been exploited by people who certainly don't have the UK's interests at heart.

What is actually true is that in the last ten years in England and Wales there have been fewer violent crimes than there were. This corresponds with a period when immigration has increased, so there's a conundrum right there for those who want us all to believe that immigrants are disproportionately responsible for crimes.
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/bulletins/crimeinenglandandwales/yearendingdecember2025

Data for YE December 2025 showed that:

• the number of homicides decreased by 6% (to 503 offences) compared with YE December 2024 (534 offences)
• offences involving knives or sharp instruments decreased by 10% (to 49,151 offences) compared with YE December 2024 (54,548 offences); falls were seen across most regions in England and Wales
• offences involving firearms decreased by 9% (to 4,753 offences) compared with YE December 2024 (5,241 offences); this was the lowest figure since current police recording practices began in YE March 2003
• the number of robbery of personal property offences decreased by 12% (to 58,508 offences) compared with the previous year, however, overall robbery increased by 4% (to 84,666 offences) mainly because of improvements to recording practices for robbery of business property
• following recent rises in shoplifting, there was a 1% decrease (to 509,566 offences) in YE December 2025 compared with the previous year (516,611 offences)

She’s scum, he’s scum. Anyone that tries to behead another person is scum.

Violence is violence regardless, and horrific regardless but I really wonder if the Belfast attack has had the element of beheading to it to reinforce the stereotype and narrative being pushed at the minute. Obviously I wasnt there so maybe the attacker was striking him in his throat and trying to sever his head from his body rather than stabbing him in the face and skull, but it sounds like someone in the taping said he's trying to behead him and everyone jumped on that because its want they already believe
Makes no difference to the victim obviously but I forwarder if there's some orchestration going on.....I could be completely wrong about the nature of the attack though

She needs to be in a mental hospital, not a prison.

Interesting that there were no houses burnt down in response to this!

Not harsh enough imo!

Where is your evidence that 'migrants jump to the front of the housing queue'? Here's some fact checking from Reuters that says the contrary. https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/asylum-seekers-jumping-social-housing-queue-claims-are-misleading-2024-12-12/

Plus, she has autism and anorexia. 15 years is only 6 less than that Henry Nowaks killer got, and she didn't kill him. Seems to me an unduly harsh sentence.

Because someone filmed the entire Belfast incident and uploaded the whole thing uncut to social media so it could circulate and be watched in full by a large number of people.

I doubt it's possible for a girl to behead a fully grown man with a hand axe.

Its almost as if we haven't got enough home grown savages... we must therefore import more.

Yes. Because I watch and listen to the news. Always have the news on with subtitles in the kitchen. And I have a paper at weekends. I even have World service at night.