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To suspect police are worried about vigilantes - Epsom attack

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ReadingCrimeFiction · 14/04/2026 16:19

I live relatively close to Epsom and so this appalling assault is all over my news feeds and social media.

BBC News - Town left in shock by appalling rape outside church
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8dl5yevjg9o

The police have asked for witnesses but no descriptions have been given. Cue lots of very disturbing posts and comments from people who very clearly think these men are not white.

I can think of half a dozen scenarios where this is not being disclosed but, based on the comments, I think it all comes down to fears that local communities will take it on themselves to "apprehend" anyone who even vaguely looks like the perpetrators? And while the comments I am seeing are mostly white people being disgusting in their assumptions about brown and black people, i can imagine police would he equally concerned if, for example, the woman was Asian or Black and her attackers were white.

Is this where we are at? Where people make horrible racist assumptions and/or where police have to worry about how they will protect the broader community if they give any details of criminals?

A church built with stone. There is a sign in front of the building.

Epsom left in shock by appalling rape outside church

Helen Maguire says she is "appalled" by the incident outside Epsom Methodist Church on Saturday.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8dl5yevjg9o

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EasternStandard · 16/04/2026 16:32

JHound · 16/04/2026 16:27

Southport had nothing to do with migration or men coming from misogynistic countries.

It shows how the ability to minimise threat is at every level, similar to threads on here, and the girls and women are not considered.

Hence all the failings that led to an extreme crime.

Hoardasurass · 16/04/2026 16:32

JHound · 16/04/2026 16:19

A) That’s not a link
B) That law excerpt does not say what you claimed.

Well now you know the name of the acts go Google it yourself instead of being lazy and expecting others to do it for you.
And yes it did mean that those coming on small boats would be deported as they had no visa and no ability to claim asylum
And yes labour scrapped those parts of it

IamRedCrossnotJesus · 16/04/2026 16:32

TriesNotToBeCynical · 16/04/2026 16:27

The same powerful group that was originally funded and supported by the Americans to fight the Russian occupation of Afghanistan - by a coincidence.

Yes indeed. And the same group of men that Farage says he will work with to deport asylum seekers, including women and children.

Boomer55 · 16/04/2026 16:33

The average price of a house in Epsom is £710k. So, it’s quite a wealthy area. Not many “underclass’. Best let the police do their job.

EvangelicalAboutButteredToast · 16/04/2026 16:33

JHound · 16/04/2026 16:15

Not really. Race doesn’t exist. (Or rather parameters of racial identity are socially constructed people can change “race” simply by moving country.)

That does not mean people don’t perceive race and treat people accordingly. Hence why said policies exist.

Again I’m not sure. Those ancestry DNA results can trace people back to certain tribes. Difference is literally in the DNA.

JHound · 16/04/2026 16:33

EasternStandard · 16/04/2026 16:32

It shows how the ability to minimise threat is at every level, similar to threads on here, and the girls and women are not considered.

Hence all the failings that led to an extreme crime.

There were many failures about Southport but I don’t see the relevance to Epsom or how “threats to girls and women” are minimised.

JHound · 16/04/2026 16:34

EvangelicalAboutButteredToast · 16/04/2026 16:33

Again I’m not sure. Those ancestry DNA results can trace people back to certain tribes. Difference is literally in the DNA.

Exactly. Population groups exist. Race does not.

The parameters of racial identity are something society created.

EvangelicalAboutButteredToast · 16/04/2026 16:35

Chocaholick · 16/04/2026 16:19

The problem is a lack of facts.

Nobody is collecting proper data on whether certain groups of men are more likely to offend or not. If they’re not, we can easily dispel the myth. If they are, then we need to look closely at who we are letting live in our country, in addition to our (white or non white) home grown offenders.

The fact this isn’t happening is fuelling the fire, because uncertainty breeds suspicion and people can make inaccurate or false statements as nobody can dispel them.

There does, admittedly, seem to be an awful lot of ‘asylum seeker’ rape cases compared to how many asylum seekers we have. But it’s difficult to know if it’s an underreporting issue unless we have hard data.

They don’t want people to have that data so they won’t collect it.

EvangelicalAboutButteredToast · 16/04/2026 16:35

JHound · 16/04/2026 16:27

Southport had nothing to do with migration or men coming from misogynistic countries.

How so?

EasternStandard · 16/04/2026 16:36

JHound · 16/04/2026 16:33

There were many failures about Southport but I don’t see the relevance to Epsom or how “threats to girls and women” are minimised.

“ “ doesn’t do it anymore. The victims usually are girls and women.

And you see threads on here preferring the systems that prioritise men.

EvangelicalAboutButteredToast · 16/04/2026 16:37

IamRedCrossnotJesus · 16/04/2026 16:32

Yes indeed. And the same group of men that Farage says he will work with to deport asylum seekers, including women and children.

Farage will never get past the red tape to make that happen. This immigration gravy train is making lots of people a lot of money and they will fight tooth and nail to leave it just the way it is.

JHound · 16/04/2026 16:37

EvangelicalAboutButteredToast · 16/04/2026 16:31

I am ethnically Indian. The environment we are now living in is becoming quite toxic and dangerous. My wider family are experiencing considerably more racism when they are out and about and my kids (early 20s and half Indian/English) were recently questioned as to what they were doing here in their local Morrisons (the town has a hotel which was then housing asylum seekers). Any criminal act by anyone not white is being used now to create an impression that communities are under siege by anyone who does not look like them. The data does not in any way support this and my family have lived here, paid taxes and contributed via the NHS for over forty years. We live in dangerous times and it is getting worse.

I see this as indicative of a failure of government. We had an well established, assimilated population of people who were born outside of the U.K. who now do not feel safe, because successive governments have allowed unfettered migration and communities have changed as a result. There is more tension as people pour in to the country and so racism has increased and the potential for civil unrest has increased.

i think these are very uncertain times.

Why blame government for the behaviour of those who cause people like PP to feel threatened? People have a choice for how they react in response to immigration levels and they alone are to blame for that choice.

JHound · 16/04/2026 16:39

EasternStandard · 16/04/2026 16:36

“ “ doesn’t do it anymore. The victims usually are girls and women.

And you see threads on here preferring the systems that prioritise men.

I don’t think there was anything suggesting Rudakabuna was especially a threat to women and girls?

JHound · 16/04/2026 16:40

EvangelicalAboutButteredToast · 16/04/2026 16:35

How so?

Because the perpetrator was not a migrant.

EvangelicalAboutButteredToast · 16/04/2026 16:40

JHound · 16/04/2026 16:37

Why blame government for the behaviour of those who cause people like PP to feel threatened? People have a choice for how they react in response to immigration levels and they alone are to blame for that choice.

Because people are stupid idiots when left to their own devices. Look at countries that have no functional police force. It’s well reported that people drag out whoever they have decided is responsible and set fire to them. You can’t leave people to act sensibly or responsibly all on their own. We need rules and laws to act well and the government are responsible for that framework and they have failed.

EvangelicalAboutButteredToast · 16/04/2026 16:41

JHound · 16/04/2026 16:40

Because the perpetrator was not a migrant.

Wasn’t he the child who’s family fled Rwanda?

Abitofalark · 16/04/2026 16:41

JHound · 16/04/2026 16:19

A) That’s not a link
B) That law excerpt does not say what you claimed.

Henry...Fetch the water?

JHound · 16/04/2026 16:42

EvangelicalAboutButteredToast · 16/04/2026 16:40

Because people are stupid idiots when left to their own devices. Look at countries that have no functional police force. It’s well reported that people drag out whoever they have decided is responsible and set fire to them. You can’t leave people to act sensibly or responsibly all on their own. We need rules and laws to act well and the government are responsible for that framework and they have failed.

Ok well I blame the individuals who make me feel threatened. Not the nebulous “government”.

EasternStandard · 16/04/2026 16:43

JHound · 16/04/2026 16:39

I don’t think there was anything suggesting Rudakabuna was especially a threat to women and girls?

He was a threat that was clear. More often than not victims are girls or women. It’s violent men who attack women usually.

All the systems people defend and the failings at every level made it possible.

JHound · 16/04/2026 16:44

EvangelicalAboutButteredToast · 16/04/2026 16:41

Wasn’t he the child who’s family fled Rwanda?

He was not a migrant. His parents were (refugees) but he was not. So the Southport murders had nothing to do with migration.

QuintadosMalvados · 16/04/2026 16:44

Abitofalark · 16/04/2026 16:08

Yes. I vaguely remember a mass attack on lone women by a crowd of men in I think, Egypt and the description used of these women, conveying how they were thought of by those attackers, was 'public women'. That placed them in a category outside of women who were chaperoned by husbands or male relatives when out and about and made them fair game. They were if I remember correctly journalists from Europe or America reporting on a demonstration or uprising.

Wow. Fair game. Yet the possibility that if they move to the UK British women won't also be seen as fair game is downplayed.

I think that some people-including women on this thread - have this magical thinking that all that has to happen is that men from cultures such as this can move to the UK and the 'love and care' they receive from the British will rehabilitate them in some way.

It's crazy to me. I genuinely don't get it. Am I cynical or just a realist.

It puts me in mind of the people who rehome vicious dogs.
All they need is love and a good home and all will be OK somehow.
While people like me are thinking they're being very stupid.

I hate to say it because while I know of men who believe 'love is all they need', it is in my experience women who are more likely to believe this.
Sorry but it's my experience.
It's some kind of rescuer complex? Is that what it is? I'll rescue this savage male and tame him?
I'm just trying to work out why women who would welcome men from truly, truly misogynistic countries are so different from me who would keep them well away from the UK.

JHound · 16/04/2026 16:44

EasternStandard · 16/04/2026 16:43

He was a threat that was clear. More often than not victims are girls or women. It’s violent men who attack women usually.

All the systems people defend and the failings at every level made it possible.

Agree there were multiple failings with him at every level. I just think it’s a completely different set of failings to what is being discussed on this thread.

EvangelicalAboutButteredToast · 16/04/2026 16:45

JHound · 16/04/2026 16:44

He was not a migrant. His parents were (refugees) but he was not. So the Southport murders had nothing to do with migration.

Do you know what’s really weird. Google wouldn’t give me that answer to that question. It had been censored. I had to ask ChatGPT who was also quite guarded about its reply. That’s given me chills. We are already being censored when we ask uncomfortable questions.

JHound · 16/04/2026 16:46

EvangelicalAboutButteredToast · 16/04/2026 16:45

Do you know what’s really weird. Google wouldn’t give me that answer to that question. It had been censored. I had to ask ChatGPT who was also quite guarded about its reply. That’s given me chills. We are already being censored when we ask uncomfortable questions.

It must be your Google.

EvangelicalAboutButteredToast · 16/04/2026 16:47

JHound · 16/04/2026 16:42

Ok well I blame the individuals who make me feel threatened. Not the nebulous “government”.

Oh I can completely understand where you want to attribute blame, it’s pretty much the premise of this thread, but also like the premise of this thread the net has to be cast wider to understand it properly.

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