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To find floral tributes being left for Harry Vincent offensive

999 replies

frankchickens · 10/04/2018 10:47

This is an attempt to intimidate the innocent family. Flowers should be removed - isn’t it littering?

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TSSDNCOP · 10/04/2018 19:55

So if the police see a bunch of people attaching 100 bunches to a car, they wouldnt pop over and say “is that your car sir?”

Isn’t part of the role to question, evaluate and deter?

Mydoghatesthebath · 10/04/2018 19:56

Birds

What in earth are you talking about? Floral tributes to the dead are often quoted and shown on the news reports and enlist much sympathy and empathy from the public.

The difference here is s career criminal went to rob and terrorise and ejderky couple and carried a weapon to do so and was accidentally killed by the poor elderly victim. Floral tributes are not usually out up my relatives in these circumstances because generally relatives are just as ashamed as grieved.

stillvicarinatutu · 10/04/2018 19:56

mighty
ha ha ha ha ha!

im with you on that.

stitchglitched · 10/04/2018 19:58

It is being reported residents are furious that police said they couldn't intervene. That does suggest they were asked to.

stillvicarinatutu · 10/04/2018 19:59

im one of you. i really am. a mum, on mumsnet. i get the feeling on this. im trying to tell you what the constraints on police are.

Quimby · 10/04/2018 20:01

“I hardly think that someone pictured sporting two pints of stout is elderly, aged or vulnerable”

Thankfully he wasn’t too vulnerable so the scumbag got what he deserved

Mydoghatesthebath · 10/04/2018 20:06

Quimby

It’s a disgraceful comment isn’t it. Cruel spiteful agiest victim blaming and unforgivable in s decent society.

TSSDNCOP · 10/04/2018 20:07

Yes but as per my post at 19:55, it’d be quite silly not to?

Whisky2014 · 10/04/2018 20:08

We get it vicar. Thr police can do fuck all.
You're very dramatic.

TSSDNCOP · 10/04/2018 20:09

Oh no, I stand corrected. The police have rocked up on horseback now.

TSSDNCOP · 10/04/2018 20:09

That’s not over the top at all is it?

stillvicarinatutu · 10/04/2018 20:11

im very dramatic?

come to work with me....please! i would love you too.

Whisky2014 · 10/04/2018 20:12

More drama

PeanutButterCheesecake · 10/04/2018 20:12

I can't imagine the type of absolute shite human beings who wouldn't hide in shame over the type of creature the dead thing is. Shame on him. Shame on them.

That poor innocent elderly couple. When will the pain end for them?

Birdsgottafly · 10/04/2018 20:12

Police Horses can be a crowd calmer, whilst still giving a good route of escape.

They are used all over the UK, but the events here are somehow being seen as unique, because, you know, it's those Travellers.

WowLookAtYou · 10/04/2018 20:14

events here are somehow being seen as unique, because, you know, it's those Travellers.
I would imagine that the police are privy to more info about local tensions than you are, Birds. If they've brought out the horses, there'll be a good reason to, and nothing to do with racism.

stillvicarinatutu · 10/04/2018 20:14

no drama at all. i would love any of you to come and sit in my response car for a 10 hour shift. i really really would. i dont do drama amymore. im chilled as can be. but i would honeslty have loved any of you to be on my sat night 5 - 3 am shift this week. it was the epitome of whats gone wrong.

stillvicarinatutu · 10/04/2018 20:16

and i was single crewed for its entirety so a ride along would have been fab.

Mightymucks · 10/04/2018 20:16

The family have put them back up again.

So they put them up.
Vigilante tore them down
They put them back up
Vigilantes tore them down again
They’ve put them back up again.

Does anybody want to take a wild guess what the next thing to happen will be?

Uh, vigilantes pull them down again maybe? Then after that? Go on, guess. That’s right! Family puts them up again, and continue ad infinitum until the police get a grip and put an end to this.

WowLookAtYou · 10/04/2018 20:16

I'm with you, vicar. It's very easy for armchair warriors on MN to sit and criticise, but there's a potential for civic unrest here.

OpheliaStorm · 10/04/2018 20:16

Things.... can only get better.

Hopefully this will all calm down very soon. We shall see. I feel very sorry for the residents of those streets though. They were not involved, didn't ask for any of this drama, and meanwhile the elderly couple will probably never return to their home either. So awful what a small group can do to other law abiding citizens.

I am sorry to say it, but I doubt they are absolutely devastated at the loss of the perpetrator either. But it is what they do. Drama all the way.

As another poster has said, the funeral will be horse drawn carriages, or a line of Mercs or Hummers. HMRC seem to track down anyone but them. Think about it. The source of their wealth is what pray tell?

Whisky2014 · 10/04/2018 20:16

Youre still being dramatic. And making this thread all about you because YOU ARE THE POLICE.
Jesus. I dont care!

nancy75 · 10/04/2018 20:16

Amongst all of this are 2 pensioners that can’t go back to their home for fear of reprisals - surely that says enough for everyone to judge what kind of vile people Vincent’s friends & family are?
They might be grieving but even in grief normal people would see that Vincent put himself in the situation that lead to his death

TSSDNCOP · 10/04/2018 20:17

It’s Hither Green, not bloody Wembley Stadium. A bit of common sense yesterday would have headed all this off.

And again, as far as I’m concerned it’s nothing to do with which culture, community or religion the dead career burglar and his family identify with.

Whisky2014 · 10/04/2018 20:18

and i was single crewed for its entirety so a ride along would have been fab. Typical egotistical police mentality here. What a hero.