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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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lookingforaline18 · 12/04/2018 10:08

Meh.
"A despicable excuse for a human being" is synonymous with scumbag imo.

Scumbag is perfectly fine to describe that man. Because he was one!

QueenieS · 12/04/2018 10:12

I wonder if the burglary rate has dropped since last Tuesday?

BertrandRussell · 12/04/2018 10:14

Despicable’s a good word. Indefensible?

But not cunt. Never, ever cunt. Can’t bear cunt being the word people reach for when they want to describe the worst thing they know.

Springnowplease · 12/04/2018 10:15

I always wonder, with people who behave like Vincent did, how many vulnerable elderly peoples demise they hastened. How many last years they ruined.

My parents for two. My father (86) 4 weeks post heart op taken to a cash point while the other cunt stood over my 80 year old mother who had terminal cancer. They never felt safe again. Mum'd death was certainly hastened by their experience.

I wish I lived near enough to tear down the flowers.

I'd dance on the cunt's grave for all the victims whose lives he cut short.

ShatnersWig · 12/04/2018 10:17

The constant replacing of the flowers by the family, leads to others pulling them, down, which repeats the cycle, which results in continued media attention. The residents, who undoubtedly are getting fed up with this, could surely complain of harassment as a result. It's as much about them now as the homeowner.

Harassment is a genuine cause for complaint and the Police could act. And the way to stop the harassment is to stop the flowers continually being placed. The family would leave, those pulling them down would leave, the media would leave and some element of normality would ensue, although the likelihood of the homeowner returning to live them from the current safe house is nil I suspect.

stitchglitched · 12/04/2018 10:17

The police statement is bizarre as the fire brigade attempt to protect the victims home from arson attacks by the same 'grieving family'.

FairfaxAikman · 12/04/2018 10:18

I'm a bit shocked by that police statement.

I'm not. They are walking an absolute tightrope in a bid not to inflame the situation- the last thing they need is the family kicking off.
The statement strikes me as a bid to make the family think the police are on "their side" while attempting to remain as neutral as possible.

GorgeousJaws · 12/04/2018 10:19

Scum is a good word to describe anyone who is capable of entering someone's home unlawfully and stealing from them, imo.

PaulDacreRimsGeese · 12/04/2018 10:20

Very sorry to hear that spring. I hope the knowledge that he's now beyond doing this again is helpful to you.

ShatnersWig · 12/04/2018 10:22

Fairfax But the situation is being inflamed by the family and the placing of the flowers. Not sure about the Police being on their side while they are still attempting to trace Vincent's accomplice and having locked up most of his family - and him - over the years. The Police are pussyfooting around his family and providing a safe house for god's sake for the homeowner. What about the residents of the street? I don't see the Police acting in their interests whatsoever.

stitchglitched · 12/04/2018 10:24

That is awful Spring. And another example of why elderly people are additionally vulnerable despite some trying to suggest his age is irrelevant, he didn't look frail etc. I knew a fit and healthy 80 year old, had an accident and broke her hip, died within weeks. Trauma can be fatal in older people in a way that wouldn't be in those younger.

lookingforaline18 · 12/04/2018 10:24

The family have a got a nerve looking the police in the eye knowing full well what Henry was up to. How they probably enjoyed the "benefits" of him being a criminal and never stopped him.

maxthemartian · 12/04/2018 10:26

A man broke into my elderly parents house and tried to kill them. He shot at my father and luckily missed, leaving the bullet in the wall. My dad managed to get to his gun and shot the man. He bled all over the kitchen escaping and we have no idea if he lived or died.
Would I have shed any tears if he died or been sad in any way? Would I fuck.
Spring I'm really sorry about your parents. That is abhorrent.

Alpineflowers · 12/04/2018 10:27

Can’t bear cunt being the word people reach for..

Coincidently, it was the exact word HV used to describe his many elderly victims. It was reported in the media this week that he was known to refer to his victims as those 'old c*s'

PaulDacreRimsGeese · 12/04/2018 10:30

If the police are attempting to remain neutral whilst supporting the right of the family to lay flowers there, they are failing badly.

BertrandRussell · 12/04/2018 10:30

All the more reason not to use it.

Springnowplease · 12/04/2018 10:32

Very sorry to hear that spring. I hope the knowledge that he's now beyond doing this again is helpful to you.

It is but there are hundreds of them out there exploiting the elderly and getting sentences that are far too short. It's no deterrent when you see what they can make.

I'm beyond disgusted with the police for allowing the intimidation to continue.

As for respect for their grieving families - really? Where is their respect for his victims? I have zero respect for anyone living off criminal gains, why should I?

It really is time the police stopped being so scared and took a good hard look at the criminal activities of so many travellers. I wonder how many more slavery cases there are.

FairfaxAikman · 12/04/2018 10:37

@ShatnersWig

But the situation is being inflamed by the family and the placing of the flowers.
Yes, but the police "siding" with the communication would likely enrage them further leading to escalation

Not sure about the Police being on their side while they are still attempting to trace Vincent's accomplice and having locked up most of his family - and him - over the years.
I am not saying the police ARE on their side, they just need to appease the family and not show that they AREN'T on their side.

What about the residents of the street? I don't see the Police acting in their interests whatsoever

I think the police are trying to prevent a bad situation getting worse.
If the flowers are continually taken down it will go on and on forever amen. If the residents are the ones taking them down they could potentially be individually targeted.

As I said they are walking an absolute tightrope at the moment and will be trying hard to prevent the situation getting worse.

Mydoghatesthebath · 12/04/2018 10:37

Slievermon

Could I respectfully remind you that if you again say I made racist comments i will report you to mnhq. I most certainly did not. Your judgment of what is racist and what is not does not mean you are right so stop now repeating lies. I won’t warn you again snd I won’t tolerste your bullying.

Now turning away from the idiotic.

Shatners sgree.

My sympathy is entirely with the elderly couple and any children mixed up in this. I have none for his wife as obviously she was well aware of her husbands career criminality and cared not one jot fit his victims.

Hopefully the situation will calm down and thr couolr can move back home if indeed they want to. They may be too traumatised

ShatnersWig · 12/04/2018 10:39

Fairfax I disagree. The family are the cause of harassment for the residents of that street and it should be stopped. The Police are failing in their duty to the residents at the expense of the family.

gluteustothemaximus · 12/04/2018 10:40

Harassment is a genuine cause for complaint and the Police could act. And the way to stop the harassment is to stop the flowers continually being placed.

We've had a much more serious case of harassment going on for 5 years now. Police didn't want to know.

ShatnersWig · 12/04/2018 10:42

Gluteus I'm not at all surprised to hear it sadly.

Aeroflotgirl · 12/04/2018 10:47

If my children committed a crime like that and died as a result, I would feel absolutely bereft as its my child. I would also think about what he did, and what the victim must have felt. As I am neither this criminals parents or family, I don't feel any sadness. Most people do not go round breaking into houses and robbing and threatening them. I like to think that I brought my children up better. His family are all if the same I'll, nasty disgusting individuals. The apple never falls far from the tree.

Aeroflotgirl · 12/04/2018 10:52

I agree, if anybody did tesame to them, they would be put six feet under. They have zero sympathy for their victims, they are vile dispicable individuals.

snowagain · 12/04/2018 10:58

@slievenamon

That was a point many of us made repeatedly on the last thread but were laughed at, called scumbag criminal sympathisers and psychos and worse. There were some truly vile specimens on the last thread though, luckily this one seems to have less disgusting types on it

'Disgusting types...' aka people who do not agree with me that filthy criminal pondscum should be hugged and loved and felt sorry for...

Do you KNOW how pathetic you sound?

Yeah, I am GLAD the scumbag criminal is dead, and as I said in the other thread, I hope he rots in hell, and if I was in that part of London I would come to the 'memorial flowers' and set fire to the lot of them!

AND do NOT call me (and people who think the same as me) a LOON! (Like you said on page 4.) Who the hell do you think you are? Putting the word LOON in strikeout, doesn't make it any less disgusting.

I am disgusted at the posters on here defending this criminal, and saying 'awwwh poor lamb he must have had a bad childhood.,,' BLESSSSSS!' Hmm

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?

I am sick to death of little leftie apologists making excuses, by saying 'there there little criminal let me give you a hug. What a bad childhood you must have had.' Hmm

I am not sorry this criminal is dead, I think more people should do what Richard did, and I hope his whole family who have been terrorising people for decades meet the same fate.

Good for Richard, and I am SO glad the police didn't charge him with anything. Why should he be jailed purely for helping to clean the streets of criminals and bullies.

And as has been said, the family are not putting up their shitty 'memorial' because they are sad and upset at their precious little boy being killed, if that was the case, they would do it at their own home. They are doing it to intimidate people, because they are bullying criminal scum. The whole lot of them!

Awwww, are the NASTY people back..........?

Shame... Sad

And you and the other poster (fricasee or some shit like that,) are seriously fucking deluded, sad, and weird if you think I give a flying FUCK about someone starting a new thread on this subject PURELY because I put 'end of thread and goodbye' on the last one. It was the end of the thread FFS. Did I say 'haha I got the last word?' NO I just said GOODBYE as the thread was ending. Get a life! Hmm

I am GLAD that someone started this NEW THREAD because it give me more chance to air my views on this scumbag who tried to rob this poor innocent old man (and the scumbag criminal's vile family...)

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