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pt.2 To find floral tributes being left for Harry Vincent offensive

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lostjanni · 11/04/2018 20:35

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Jannilost · 13/04/2018 11:22

I know, bloody on trial by vicar. 😂😂

Aeroflotgirl · 13/04/2018 11:25

😂😂😂

gluteustothemaximus · 13/04/2018 11:25

Episode of The Bill 🤣🤣🤣

Mydoghatesthebath · 13/04/2018 11:36

Yes sorry 78! Well I feel bloody frail quite frankly and I am 50 but there you go

stitchglitched · 13/04/2018 11:40

I don't understand how this man's age can be dismissed as irrelevant when it was the whole reason he was targetted. Nobody would say race/ religion was irrelevant if a criminal was chosing victims based on it. If Mr Osborn Brooks had been a 30 year old man we wouldn't even be having this conversation because they wouldn't have entered his home.

Aeroflotgirl · 13/04/2018 11:41

He was elderly, hardly young like the 38 year old criminal, so more at a disadvantage. I am amazed that he overpowered this crook and defended himself.

Jannilost · 13/04/2018 11:48

I am amazed to, but then when your life and your families life is threatened you do everything possible.

GnotherGnu · 13/04/2018 11:54

Precisely who insulted the victims, and when, Aeroflot?

GnotherGnu · 13/04/2018 11:56

There again, my father would have been properly insulted if you'd told him he was frail at 78. Likewise my uncle, who was running half marathons at that age.

stitchglitched · 13/04/2018 11:58

There were plenty of insults on another thread- he was called a murderer, a killer, he looked like a bruiser, disparaging his likely vulnerability because he drank guinness. All pretty unpleasant posts when all we knew at the time was his age and that 2 armed men had broken into his home.

SaucyJane · 13/04/2018 12:00

Elendon in particular had her knife out for the burglary victims.

(As well as Margaret thatcher and Harold shipman. Which were both about as relevant as the fact that her ex has 25 year old twins Hmm)

stitchglitched · 13/04/2018 12:00

Anyway regardless of whether Mr Osborn Brooks is frail it is fair to say his wife, described as disabled, suffering from arthritis and dementia, is. And one man was ransacking her bedroom with her in it whilst the struggle occurred.

Aeroflotgirl · 13/04/2018 12:02

Gnother it was on another thread soon after this incident happened. I was shocked and responded as such. as another poster said, one might have been Eldon.

Aeroflotgirl · 13/04/2018 12:05

Mr Osbourne-Brooks sounds very fit, good on him for defending himself and his wife, imagine if he had been frail, and unable to defend.

Alpacinoshoohaa · 13/04/2018 12:18

I only skin read the threads but I'm sure Bertrands posts stood out wanting a trial? It's right he was taken for questioning and it's right he was released without further charge but the cold hard insistent posturing about him and what should be done with him and very little sympathy or kindness for his predicament or his poor poor wife.

Alpacinoshoohaa · 13/04/2018 12:20

Didn't finish seemed very unbalanced.
Maybe Bertrand works in this sort of area or has exposed of it because being unemotional and dispassionate are qualities one would need I imagine.

Aeroflotgirl · 13/04/2018 12:23

Exactly Alpacino, wanting him to go through that stress of a trial, being in a highly charged courtroom, and being cross examined, after what he was already been though, seemed very sick. When the pictures of Mr Osborne-Brooks emerged, some comments about how he did not look very Elderly, that he was drinking stout, and calling him a murderer.

Aeroflotgirl · 13/04/2018 12:25

I think Alpacino judging from some on here, they probably do work in related areas. I certainly got that impression. Rather cold and distant.

Mydoghatesthebath · 13/04/2018 12:30

Agree with the cold and distant comments. Lacking any empathy or sympathy.

To be quite honest I thought Elendon was drunk her posts were very strange

BertrandRussell · 13/04/2018 12:32

There are plenty of people being emotional about it. I can’t see the point. It was an awful situation- which is continuing to be awful. What good is served by competitive emoting?

Aeroflotgirl · 13/04/2018 12:32

It like they have gone into 'professional' mode on here.

Mydoghatesthebath · 13/04/2018 12:32

So without reading pages and pages what was going on with the key stone cops? Who was being investigated and why? Couldn’t make head or tail of it last night.

stitchglitched · 13/04/2018 12:36

Vicar said she was going to report the OP for breaching social media policy as OP is a police special. She kept leaving then coming back to say she was reporting her to her inspector, then she had reported it, then she had reported herself because she didn't give a fuck anymore or something. To be honest she sounded a bit drunk to me.

Alpacinoshoohaa · 13/04/2018 12:38

Itsu the lack of balance Bertrand, positioning one's self firmly in the court corner. As aero said, let the police investigate, then release him hopefully. Other posters seemed to be salivating over his trial. Pushing this, repeatedly going on about it without addressing his wife, his age, his distress etc.
The whole wider situation.
Selected narrow thinking me thinks. Confused

BertrandRussell · 13/04/2018 12:39

“Other posters seemed to be salivating over his trial”

Really? That’s certainly not where I saw the “salivating”.......

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