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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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CupofFrothyCoffee · 11/04/2018 15:33

Good excuse. you are though, aren't you?

According to you I am.

Mightymucks · 11/04/2018 15:36

If it was a young black man in Hackney who’d done the stabbing of a white traveller burglar I think the ructions would have been even bigger and there could possibly have been riots. People in Hackney don’t tend to take arrests very well when the person is blatantly guilty let alone innocent like in this case.

And I suspect if it had been in Hackney no way would the police have allowed a shrine to go up antagonising the local community.

Anyway, it’s kind of a moot point. Vincent would never have had the guts to take on a young healthy man, black or white.

VestaSheridan · 11/04/2018 15:42

According to you I am

Do you not know?

AnnaHindrer · 11/04/2018 15:42

Were it a young black man in Hackney who'd done the stabbing of a white traveller, he'd ave been in prison.

VestaSheridan · 11/04/2018 15:46

Exactly.

MissEliza · 11/04/2018 15:47

Magnetic I'm too lazy to google it but I'm sure reports said that a van driven by a black man appeared on the scene to pick up the burglar but left him when he realised how serious it was.

Springnowplease · 11/04/2018 15:49

Were it a young black man in Hackney who'd done the stabbing of a white traveller, he'd ave been in prison.

Wouldn't happen. Cowardly shits like Vincent only pick on the elderly and vulnerable. So pleased one got him back for all his past sins.

VestaSheridan · 11/04/2018 15:50

So pleased one got him back for all his past sins

Pleased? That someone died horribly? Are you quite well?

Springnowplease · 11/04/2018 15:53

I'm fine, Vesta A shame his past victims can't say the same, don't you think? And how many future victims have been saved from attack by this lowlife?

If you feel sorry for him it's you that needs treatment, really. Barking mad.

MissEliza · 11/04/2018 15:54

Well said Spring.

SaltireSaltire · 11/04/2018 15:57

saucyjane
Near us two schools had to be shut down for two days because travellers set up camp in the school playground and used corners of the playground and doorways as toilets! The disruption to everybody’s life was massive and the cleanup cost thousands - and guess who paid the bill?
Correct - not those that made it.
It’s a regular event - the local Racecourse was next - followed by farmers field.
Uncomfortable truth - it is regular and costly, before you even look at the policing costs

VestaSheridan · 11/04/2018 15:57

If you feel sorry for him it's you that needs treatment, really. Barking mad

I don't feel sorry for him, I feel sorry for you. Anyone who is pleased that someone died horribly needs to see a psychiatrist.

Do you think that elderly man is pleased he killed someone? I can assure you he isn't. What a horrible thing for him to live with, I feel awful for him.

(Thats called normal human emotion btw, you could copy it if you don't naturally have any)

InfiniteSheldon · 11/04/2018 16:00

he has lived a life based on bullying, robbing and terrorising the elderly, it's not wrong to be pleased he is dead it's a very valid recognition that society is a safer place for the elderly with him gone.

MagneticMan · 11/04/2018 16:00

@MissEliza

One of the initial comments (the day after the incident so a week ago now) from a neighbor said that they saw a white man in the road and a black man trying to get him into the van. That was soon proven to be incorrect. I was just a bit surprised you hadn't seen any of the latest reports with a pic of Billy Jeeves and the family confirming they are travellers. It's difficult to escape the media coverage at the moment!

Alpineflowers · 11/04/2018 16:02

AnnaHindrer-Were it a young black man in Hackney who'd done the stabbing of a white traveller, he'd ave been in prison.

Not sure what the comparison is here.
The man who was stabbed was an armed burglar in his 30s. The pensioner who stabbed him acted in self defence. The police have verified this and would have come to the same conclusion no matter what the ethnic identity of those involved.
It's obvious it's a clear case of self defence, the police released the pensioner without charge fairly quickly.

Elendon · 11/04/2018 16:02

To say I feel sad it this man's death, would be supporting his actions, as he died committing a crime by somebody defending themselves and their family. You live by the sword, you die by the sword. Aeroflotgirl

So say a man who leaves his children and partner for someone else and starts up a new family. The first family are devastated, they have to move house, loss of income, face shame. Certainly the actions of the two people have contributed to loss and devastation.

The man dies. Do you think - well deserved? Bastard had it coming to him? Hope she and her children suffer as much as the first family?

lostjanni · 11/04/2018 16:03

well said spring. He was a violent criminal that terrorised the elderly and the vunerable. I'm going to be honest and say yes i'm glad he is dead. He ruined peoples lives, made them feel scared in their own home.
In his last moments, i wonder whether the pain and terror he was facing was the same the victims he attacked felt.
regardless of race he was scum and the lowest of the low.

Mydoghatesthebath · 11/04/2018 16:06

I don’t rejoice in his death but I don’t care. Not one bit. Pure evil.

My sympathy is entirely with the elderly couple and any children involved.

VestaSheridan · 11/04/2018 16:08

To say I feel sad it this man's death, would be supporting his actions, as he died committing a crime by somebody defending themselves and their family. You live by the sword, you die by the sword

By the sword? Haven't we moved on a bit in 2 thousand years? It isn't supporting someones actions to not be glad they are dead.

There is a huge area between "I feel sad he's dead" (no-one has said that) and "I am not happy someone died horribly" (any normal people here have said that)

Springnowplease · 11/04/2018 16:08

I don't feel sorry for him, I feel sorry for you. Anyone who is pleased that someone died horribly needs to see a psychiatrist.

So funny.

If anyone finds a plot can they send it to Vesta, she's lost it.

I'm glad he's dead and not the elderly pensioner.

I don't think a psychiatrist would be interested in me. But there's a whole case history in your problems. Maybe even a book.

Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin

VestaSheridan · 11/04/2018 16:10

I don't think a psychiatrist would be interested in me. But there's a whole case history in your problems. Maybe even a book

I think a psych would be very interested why you think you know anything (let alone everything) about a someone who has said three sentences to you online.
Do you always imagine rich detailed histories for people you know nothing about? Do they have voices that speak to you?

CupofFrothyCoffee · 11/04/2018 16:11

Do you think that elderly man is pleased he killed someone? I can assure you he isn't. What a horrible thing for him to live with, I feel awful for him

So does every person on this thread.

Aeroflotgirl · 11/04/2018 16:13

Vesta no I am not sad that this man died in the middle of committing a crime, which is what you fail to realise. That is what happens when you lead a life of crime, expect to be hurt, injured or killed in action, which is what happened here. He got what was coming to him, move on! I will not have a little dance or a party, and celebrate it, but I don't care.

VestaSheridan · 11/04/2018 16:15

Vesta no I am not sad that this man died in the middle of committing a crime, which is what you fail to realise.

Did You miss where I explained to you the difference between "Im sad" and "I'm not glad" and the whole gulf in between? Or where the words too big?

VestaSheridan · 11/04/2018 16:15

So does every person on this thread

Do they? They don't seem to appreciate anything he will be going through. or care about it.