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 believe we have been fully infiltrated by bots and scum deliberately aimed at normalising fascism.

I am the least conspiracy like person but very logical.And this has become so apparent.

Could not agree more. I am sickened by some of the posts on this thread in response to the death of a teenager in the most tragic circumstances.

Are suggesting that a young black man being out after midnight is “put[ing] himself in a risky situations”?

His mother has been through unimaginable pain. That poor woman, my heart breaks for her. He really made terrible choices with the company he kept.

I suspect a young man who has been held in a high security prison in the UAE has more cause than most to be afraid of the police.

This is ridiculous. It isn’t bots, it’s people! Social media and finding others who think like you, even when they’re nasty/antisocial thoughts has emboldened millions to say exactly what they really think without receiving any real life push back for it. This is who social media has made us, especially Twitter/X with their say the most hard hitting statement in as few words as possible ethos. It’s depressing to acknowledge I grant you.

Accidental duplicate post.

I've been pulled over by the police before on the way to work in the middle of the night, in the type of car that clearly gets profiled. There were reinforcements arriving as the first car came over to talk to us.
The second they saw we were two white, middle class sounding women everything changed. The back up was immediately dismissed, they apologised for stopping us.
Had we been two young black men there is no way things would have gone the way they did for us. That's likely why the driver didn't stop.
Whatever the reasons the driver didn't stop though, the passenger isn't responsible for any of them. You don't need to wait to hear if his mate is a wrongun or not to have sympathy for a young man who has died.

You may well be right but I still feel for his Mum and other family

My thoughts exactly.

Thank you, I thought he was 17. Still an unfortunate circumstance though and another waste of a life through some sort of misadventure.

Yes, but after the experience he had in Dubai he may literally have been scared for his life when he saw UK police lights. He may have been irreparably traumatised. I agree with OP that the vindictive mother in the original case should have a hard time looking at herself in the mirror for the rest of her life as her actions likely played a part in this.

Exactly. Even if he and his mates were playing up/being 'naughty' none of them deserved to die. 😢

Yes, completely unrelated. It’s not at all uncommon for young males in particular to fail to stop for police (because they’re unqualified drivers/have no insurance/have been drinking/taking drugs) and increasing their speed to dangerous levels in the hope of getting away.

That is exactly what a bot would do...😁

Bot is the wrong word for mn (but not for FB or Twitter where it

Poor boy. I felt awful for him and his family. They must have so many what ifs and so much grief. It’s a tragic waste and it’s not at all hard to imagine his prison experience may have made it hard to settle back into exactly where he was before.

On mumsnet a uni aged kid being a fool is routinely described as needing time for their brain to develop but when it’s a young black boy who has already suffered a disturbing and racially aggravated sentence being a passenger in a vehicle that didn’t stop for police some are very quick to judge him as a risk taking idiot.

I have only got contempt for the racist conjecturing that seeks to malign his character. I don’t understand what is up with people posting this shit.

Oh no 😢 this is so awful. That poor boy and family!

The mother of the girl who reported him in Dubai is fucking evil!

We forget the preciousness of life until we hear a story like this. I really felt for him in prison and now it’s all over. Very sad

The lack of empathy and judgemental comments are shocking.

It is awful for his family.

It’s a relief noone else was killed in the police chase.

100%

Awful coincidence, my thoughts are with his family - but I cant see what that got to do with him being jailed?

Terrible loss of life ((

She is and she has blood on her hands. I pray karma will catch up with her.

Because that evil woman deprived him of what turned out to be the last year of his life.

How was she evil?

It’s not her fault that this young adult died.