Huntingdon was a lone wolf attack

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Confirmed by police about half an hour ago that the 35 year old arrested has been released without charge.

I hope the many posters who came on here spouting their vile racist views will have the decency to apologise?

Nope, thought not.

Seems more and more likely that it was just a horrendous case of someone being failed by the mental health system.

I'm confused, I thought they arrested 2 men?

They did - and the second one has been released without charge.

They did. They’ve now confirmed one man wasn’t involved, despite it being “reliably” reported to them at the scene that he was.

Don’t be ridiculous. They won’t apologise because they won’t feel that it’s wrong.

That makes more 'sense' in a way than two men - in their thirties no less - seemingly doing this together without any ideological/terrorism motivation. No less appalling though.

It seems more likely that the second guy was swept up in the arrest as the other black man at the scene. This is what we have come to.

Thank god the 35yr olds name wasn't released to the media, as it turned out after all he had nothing to do with it

Horrendous. Absolutely horrendous. Arrested for the colour of his skin

Absolutely. Poor guy.

I suspect this too. We need to look at why so many - particularly black men - are being failed by the mental health system. Are they less likely to seek help in the first place? Lack of family support? Mental health services just shit in general (my dh had bipolar and severe depression so can understand a little of this). What is going on?

I just hope that all those injured make a full recovery. One of them is a rail employee apparently, he's got life-threatening injuries, and he is being praised for saving the lives of others.

It's just dreadful, the whole thing.

Yes, the desperation on the part of some politicians to get names released immediately would have lead to the 35 year old (and his family) being hounded by the press.

All of the above I’d imagine. You only have to look at other threads to see they’re not accepted as part of British society.

Exactly
I wonder why this man was arrested rather than any other innocent bystander?????
This country- thank Fuck I am white with a white son or I would be terrified

Because he matched the description of the attacker - a black man in his thirties, I would imagine.

That was my first thought too. If that is the case how awful for that Man to not only have witnessed everything as it happened but then to be accused of being involved seemingly on the colour of his skin.

Really hope that those still in hospital recover quickly.

I said that on this forum the second that Police conference came through. We were been taken for fools. All the eye witnesses saw ONE man get on at Peterborough and attack. The fact they’re now looking into his background would imply there could be MI5 information on him. This feels like Southport again which was apparently not terror related either and he was British born. Let’s see what comes out next.

Why would he ask the police to kill him when he arrested though?

Mental health issues.

I hope all of the racists will now just fuck off under a hole in shame. But of course they won't.

Now, the next phase of absolute hatred and eager lack of compassion will be posters promoting the fiction that sympathy for the victims is absolutely incompatible with sympathy for seriously mentally ill people who have been let down by our necrotic mental health services.

You are not giving up are you?

How have you come to that conclusion?