Poor teen jailed in Dubai has died

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I’ve just seen this. How utterly heartbreaking for his parents.
it makes me even more angry about the vindictive mother that reported him.
Just so so sad.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/met-police-car-chase-crash-teenager-dead-tottenham-london-b1251170.html

I hope she is reading this thread and can see for herself how many people are disgusted with her.

I see the fuckers that were busy yesterday typing variations of #bekind, are here today with their conjecture and withholding judgement 🙄. I thought we were in the business of being empathetic.

Anyway, this news made me really sad and my heart really goes out to his family 🙏🏾. A terrible waste of another young life.

Thanks for the info.

Good! He should be charged with manslaughter besides whatever else is the reason for the chase.

The police/whomever was chasing him should be charged with manslaughter as well but I know that won't happen! Ridiculous!

He doesn't sound like a very bright lad. He broke the law in Dubai, faced the consequences, and that clearly didn't teach him anything as he broke the law again shortly after his early release and paid the ultimate price. RIP.

From all I’ve ever seen, police don’t pursue cars unless the automatic number plate recognition device has come up with no insurance, or that the car has been stolen, or it’s speeding or been driven recklessly anyway, or e.g. after dark it is missing lights.

Protect her daughter from what? Her hormonal response to a boy she fancied? The sex was consensual.

How do you know he broke the law here? He wasn’t the driver, so wasn’t speeding. We don’t know anything about what was happening before the accident.

I can’t be bothered to count but I would suggest that at least half of the posters on this thread are asserting that she is not to blame - which she isn’t.

I felt exactly the same, that poor lad had already been through so much, now this, I can’t imagine how his family feel.

As for the judgmental ignoramuses on the thread, we don’t know the details of why the car didn’t stop, what Marcus was doing there what his mental health was like from being locked up in a brutal foreign prison for essentially doing nothing wrong, how he was coping with life, who the driver was and what they were thinking because they were the ones driving and in control, Marcus wasn’t. It’s all just conjecture at this point, so how about some empathy for a young man and his family who have gone through something none of you could ever comprehend.

What an awful thing to say.
A young man, who was a passenger in a car, has died.

May he rest in peace.

Someonee on here said he was a passenger. If this is true he didn’t break the law. The driver did.

Perhaps the mother knew something about this boyfriend that we don’t ….

Stop making stuff up to justify your own heartless response.

She's not directly to blame for his death, no, but she is a disgusting individual.

And his life may have taken a completely different path thanks to her. He might have been off at uni somewhere in a completely different part of the country rather than in a friend's speeding car if it weren't for her vindictive actions.

It’ll all come out in the wash. Let’s see What the driver of the car is charged with And what’s found in the car

Such a shame. Dubai is no joke, innocent people get jailed there all the time. I hope the driver will be punished for reckless driving. Devastating for his family 😢

There are enough of us who do think what she did was awful. The teens were having a holiday romance. He didn’t know about the law. All she had to do was point out to them that it was illegal in Dubai. I remember reading at the time that she was angry because he was black. If that is true she ruined that young man’s life before the car crash.

I strongly suspect that reckless driving will be the least of the drivers worries

Lots of surmising & what ifs in there…

Why do you assume illegality in the car?
Not his car n
He wasn’t driving.
Even if it was, and he was, neither speeding nor drug dealing (assuming that’s what you are suggesting - profiling by race at all?) are punishable by death in this country.
Being heartless and judgemental can affect your own happiness though.

She is still not responsible for his death in a car crash over a year later.

Why?

That’s a bit of a leap, are you Judge, Jury and Executioner - you know nothing!

Her actions have factored into where he is in his life now. She did an incredibly vindictive thing. Responsible in a legal or absolute sense? No. But bearing some responsibility due to the effects of what she did? Definitely.

Yeah - black boys are not to be trusted with nice Sikh girls. What a load of cack. All the reports I read at the time portrayed him as just a normal kid involved in his studies. The girl liked him enough to want to sleep with him. It was a holiday romance.