WW2 Veterans under attack!

[compfan]

I recently read a book called the unknown warriors, which is loads of ww2 veterans memories and what they think of the country now. I found the book fascinating, I looked on the website on the back of the book and found a section where some crimes against the WW2 generation have been recorded from the last couple of years. OMG!!!! All those of that generation deserve a peaceful old age not being terrorised, murdered or raped in their own homes!

From the last few years -
www.theunknownwarriors.co.uk/#/silent-scandal/4531697023

This year
www.theunknownwarriors.co.uk/#/silent-scandal-2010/4538778311

I'm sure that the fact they are WW2 veterans is incidental. Crimes like that are horrfic whoever the vivtim is.

Memoo, StewieGriffinsMom Your concern for our elderly is touching.....

STREET ATTACK - 101 year old man with partial sight and poor hearing challenged gang after they kicked away his walking stick. Attacked and left hospitalised with facial injuries and cuts to arms and hands. Northampton, Oct 10,
BRUTAL MURDER - 89 year old WW2 veteran with a 'heart of gold' killed in his own home in violent attack, Blackburn, Oct 10,
SEX ATTACK FILMED - 91 year old lady and her elderly carer forced to perform sex acts on each other by a gang leader who filmed them, to show as a 'trophy' to other gang members. Brixton, London, Sept 10
SEX ORDEAL - 89 year old lady sexually abused by home intruder who stripped naked. Leeds, Sept 10
FRACTURED CHEEKBONE - 83 year old lady attacked in the street for £20 Victim said 'I won?t let this beat me, no. I would rather lie down and die.' Macclesfield, Sept 10
103 YEAR OLD - ex WW2 blitz air raid warden dies after 'never being the same' after he was violently attacked in his home last Oct. and thrown to the floor for £12, Croydon, Aug 10
FACE SLASHED - 83 year old lady attacked by knifeman in her home.Tied up, face and arms slashed with knife, puncture wounds and arm fractured, Newham, London, Aug 10
THROWN TO FLOOR - 90 year old Australian lady on a visit to the UK attacked after withdrawing money from cash machine, Dartford, Kent, Aug 10
MUGGING MURDER - 90 year old WW2 Normandy veteran who was a driver for General Eisenhower mugged for £40 and his bus pass in the stairwell outside his flat. Left with broken bones etc, resulting in his death, South London, Aug 10
MURDERED AT SHELTERED HOUSING - 88 year old lady found in her home, murdered with terrible injuries, Sunderland, Jul 10
MUGGED IN STREET - 92 year old WW2 veteran attacked from behind outside his retirement complex, Manchester, Jul 10
HIT & RUN - 91 year old lady recovering from cancer surgery hit by car and left with crippling injuries. Driver and passenger got out the car but then drove off without helping or phoning 999. Gravesend, June 10
ALZHEIMERS SUFFERER - 84 year old man returning from shopping attacked in flats hallway and threatened with broken bottle. Bus pass stolen. Camden, London, Jun 10
STABBED TO DEATH - 87 year old widowed great grandmother murdered by burgular in her 15th floor flat in tower block, Charlton, London, MAY 10
THROAT SLASHED - 85 year old WW2 Burma veteran violent death by home intruder, Dorset, May 10
VIOLENTLY RAPED - 89 year old lady raped in her own house by intruder. Manchester, Apr 10
GOOD FRIDAY PUNCHING - 90 year old lady attacked in her home by violent gang at Easter. Oxford, Apr 10
BAG GRAB - 85 year old Scots Guard WW2 veteran and his 86 year old wife were out struggling on icy pavements, when a car pulled up and violently grabbed the ladies handbag from her shoulder. Slough, Feb 10
BAG SNATCH - 86 year old lady stopped to give the time and was pushed onto the floor and her bag taken. Nelson, Lancs, Feb 10
KNIFED TO DEATH - 94 year old WW2 veteran of Burma, Egypt and Borneo murdered. Repeatedly stabbed with knife by an intruder in his home. TV stolen. Borehamwood, Jan 10
SEX ASSAULT - 87 year old man sexually assaulted by an intruder in his home. Oldham, Lancs, Jan 10
KNOCKED TO GROUND - 95 year old ex Battle of Britain Spitfire pilot, knocked to the ground by a home intruder who stole £200, in the second raid on his home in one year. Tiverton, Devon, Jan 10
NEW YEARS DAY MURDER - 88 year old lady beaten to death on her doorstep after returning from visiting family. Southend, Essex, Jan 10

How can you brush this of with a comment like 'shit happens' No wonder so many of the war veterans in the book said this country is not the country they fought for.

agree with SGM - fastforward another 50yrs - where we have no WW2 veterans alive.

These sorts of hideous crimes will still happen, they just won't have the "WWD veteran" description.

No one is brushing it off

They are saying no one should have these terrible things inflicted upon them

I agree with the OP that the crimes are disgusting and horrific, however I also agree with StewieGriffinsMom. The crimes are horrible, yes, but surely a crime committed against a veteran is not more ghastly than any other crime. If I am reading her posts correctly, this is all she is saying.

What SGM said, those things should happen to NO ONE.

I'm with stewiegriffinsmom. These are appauling things to happen, no matter how old the victim.

I'm with compfan. Of course no one should have those things happen to them, it somehow seems worse though when its a vulnerable, defenceless elderly person who has been through the nightmare of world war 2 in their youth, now being terrorised when they should be living in peace and safety.

It's terrible that the vulnerable in society suffer from attacks like this. But I'd agree with most on here that the fact these particular elderly people are WW2 veterans is not relevant. I would be equally appalled by something similar happening to someone who was a conscientious objector in the war, or who was a few years younger, or in fact was any age at all but happened to be a vulnerable person who became a victim of crime.

Would you be less horrified if some WW2 black market spiv was a victim instead of a veteran?

Do you recall Agatha Christie writing novels about crimes where 91 year old ladies were forced to perform sex acts on their carers whilst being filmed by a gang member to show his sick friends.... NO BECAUSE SUCH SICK CRIMES WERE UNHEARD OF IN THIS COUNTRY. If you look into it you will see the burgulary rate pre WW2 amounted to 300 a year nationwide and people have DOUBLE the chance per 1,000 people of being murdered in this country now compared to the early 20th century. Children walked safely for miles, doors left unlocked.

This is the point, following generations have destroyed the happy, safe country that they fought for.

of course it happened! And authors long before Christie were writing stories that involved them

Dickens'Oliver Twist - Fagin - runs a gang of pickpockets, Sykes was a violent and dangerous criminal.

Magwitch in Great Expectations was hardly a decent man

Then we had the well known highway men

Jack the Ripper

Perhaps an irony that the Victorians thought that crime rate was falling......

I have also read stats that clearly show that the child murder rate has remained relatively static for many, many year...children may used to walk the streets, but they were no safer than they were now. Just as likely to be murdered - and probably just as likely to be abused....but no one spoke about it.

Sick crimes were unheard of in this country? Oh you are in jest, surely? have you not heard of slavery? The many children abused who ahd no resort to help in the way they do now with childline etc? I was discussing the whole'children used to walk miles' thing with Mum; she said that she knew murdered children (In somerset so not inner city estates) and that accidents were more expected then. Certainly during those free wandering days I knew quite a few children randomly assaulted, people just accepted it more then.

As for the rest I'm with SGM- it's terrible, whoever it happens to. There are plenty of otehr vulnerable groups who are equally a target for crimes- eg people with a learning disability- do tehy matter less? Of course not. nobody should be targetted.

And not all old people are vets; my parents both above retirement age but not veteran age- Grandad is but he's 90. Would it be worse if bad things happened to him than them? Nope; it would all be totally despicable.

As a random example of sick crime, in teh fifties (so the era when the vet generation were prety much in charge) a cousin of a loved one was being sexually abused.

Someone raised it with the authorities,

It was decided it was better to ignore as the abused child was severely disabled and better them than someone who might understand more.

That is as sick as any in your list.

Nobody deserves this. However some people are capable of at least putting up a fight... Babies, children, the disabled and the elderly can't.

True

and had thread said defenceless under attack i'd be agreeing (not that it's worse now- of course it's not, look at teh disabled people treated so horribly by the Nazis)

There are awful things happening out there: always have been of course but these days we know and so the worst thing is perhaps that so many feel able to ignore them.

What was that case where teh autistic child was horribly assaulted at school and the perpetrating children given hardly any punishment as boredom was thought fit to be an excuse?

Bloosy awful.

but there is no one group it's worse for. veterans deserve our thanks and gratitude but everybody desrves safety and security.

Where in my post did I say other victims do not deserve sympathy??

The FACTS ie. from the govt statistics show that since the 1950s all levels of crime from rape to violent assault have risen dramatically.