Belgast last night - horrific attack - why is this not being reported on BBC/Sky etc?

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Absolutely shocking details of the injuries inflicted - the BBC minimise it.
https://x.com/paultreyvaud/status/2064244770742956256?s=46

I never said this guy shouldn’t be deported. I said checks obviously failed - that does need addressing yes - but don’t extrapolate this failure to mean no asylum seeker should be allowed out. Checks failed on Huntley, on Couzens - we don’t rampage burning caretakers’ homes or cop shops down and demand they’re all detained.

Absolutely right. Until relatively recently I was against people filming everything all the time. Seems ridiculous, and annoying. Unnecessary.

However now, and especially after the Henry Nowak murder (where we'd all have been told and believed it was his racist attack on the poor brown people, had Henry himself not filmed part of the interaction; and of course the police recording of the killer and his accomplice brother talking in a foreign language (Urdu?) in the back of the police car), I hope people film everything, and I will too if need be. We can't trust the truth to be told otherwise, as we've seen

What are these checks?

True however if multiple people film the same thing it's unlikely they're all simultaneously and in exactly the same way doctoring their videos.

So if you have multiple sources that say the same thing as well as multiple eye witness accounts it's probably true. Far more likely to be true than a police or government statement.

This is sadly how low trust in police and government has fallen. And they deserve it, frankly. I have no doubt there are those in power who are rather sad they can't impose Stasi like control due to the fact there are still social media avenues that people can use freely. I suspect Digital ID has a lot to do with quashing this freedom.

Righto. Let’s blame the victim now shall we. Lovely stuff.

The police didn’t want to share footage of Henry Nowak either, and now we all know why.

An asylum claim in the UK currently takes around 2.5 years to process, in the time from application to outcome the claimant stays in these hotels or other accommodation as provided by the Home Office, 2.5 years is ample time for a few to go completely off radar isn't it?

Did I even say that! Ffs - read my posts more slowly and carefully next time please.

Why not?

If we don’t know who they are then you’re risking the community as a whole.

Checks failing on British citizens is completely different as they are naturalised, they aren’t new arrivals.

If I rocked up to any other foreign country with no ID I’d be detained.

Some do it purely for attention. There’s a stampede to be the first to share it to their peer group. You can see a much milder form of this on MN when posters rush to be the first to “break the news” each time a celebrity dies.

Others do it for money. There is absolutely nothing that some bottom-feeding influencers won’t exploit for cash and a higher profile.

Others exploit tragedies for political gain.

None of these people give a shit about the victim, their family or the importance of not jeopardising any future trial.

I don't think that is what pp is saying. But there does seem to be much more outrage when a white person is attacked or murdered by a person of colour.

For example, this, which also happened in NI, is horrific. Very little outrage on MN and certainly not multiple threads afaics. Maybe because women being murdered by their partners is common, whilst the sort of incident last night is not?

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/03/stephen-mcullagh-jailed-natalie-mcnally-murder

Thank you @DrBlackbird for your balanced, careful, perceptive and necessary message at I think 11:17

It’s far too easy for people to cover this up without footage.

And for those who are so glib about ‘it’s just another stabbing’ - a school in Manchester vwas in lockdown this morning after three children were stabbed (schoolgirl arrested)

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stabbing
/ˈstabɪŋ/

noun
an act or instance of wounding or killing someone with a knife.

The crime involved wounding or attempting to kill someone or killing someone with a knife.
The definition of stabbing is above. Language was used accurately. It isnt covering something up or minimising the act.
The media are reporting. The police are investigating.
Stop trying to claim a 'cover up' when there isnt one.

What are you referring to? I said that prior to going in hotels and being allowed to ‘roam’ (to use the favoured term for non whites here) they are detained and checked - this is from when they arrive.

Yes of course 2.5 years is a king time - maybe ask the Tories why they let the asylum backlog build - obviously not to let us point fingers elsewhere, obviously not to allow their mates make a fat cat killing on hotel contacts - umm just can’t think why!

If people are upset that migration is too high then OBVIOUSLY they will be more upset when a crime is committed by an immigrant! It’s not rocket science.

I think we all know why🙄

This.

And there were protests after the police failed to charge Couzens for the crime of flashing (which was reported by McDonalds staff who seemed to give more of shit about his offending than the police) which enabled him to go on to murder.

Large protests.

Footage is important yes - but for the police investigation and trial - not for people to salivate over and push an agenda.

Despite pp there are no checks.

No it’s to stop the media and politicians from covering up events.

This!
No-one is ‘salivating’ what an utterly egregious comment.

No one is glib about stabbings. Every stabbing is a terrible crime.
They should all be investigated and reported regardless of the ethnicity of the offender and victim. The incident highlighted in this thread is being reported and investigated.
It is not being excused or ignored or covered up.

Oh come off it, OP. There are other reasons. It affects the trial. It is utterly unfair on the victim and the victim's family. And circulating videos of vicious assaults and attempted murder is just sick - teenagers and children circulate this stuff among themselves, for instance. There is no conspiracy.