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British woman beheaded in Tenerife supermarket - so shocking

22 replies

UmYeahLikeTotally · 13/05/2011 22:24

awful

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Jemma1111 · 13/05/2011 22:29

I heard about it earlier and am also totally shocked, the poor lady wouldn't have stood a chance

I just hope the lowlife, sick and twisted bastard who did this to her rots in hell for eternity

mummylin2495 · 13/05/2011 22:45

What a terrible thing to of happened. Poor poor woman.

HRHShoesytwoesy · 13/05/2011 22:46

awful

kangers · 13/05/2011 22:47

quite surreal

StealthPolarBear · 13/05/2011 22:52

shit
surely that can't have been a quick and easy thing for him to do?
Hope she didn;t suffer too much

MightyAphrodite · 13/05/2011 22:54

Random acts of violence that destroy lives. Here, a couple of days ago, a man left his wife (who was in labour) outside their flat, to get the car to take her to hospital. He was stabbed to death by someone who wanted to steal his video camera. What is wrong with the world?

DeepPurple · 13/05/2011 22:55

Awful. Truly awful.

electra · 13/05/2011 22:55

It sounds like the person who did it is extremely ill (mentally)

but the poor woman - how unspeakably awful.

MrsDmamee · 13/05/2011 23:15

Its beyond belief..the poor woman and her family.

Collegemum38 · 13/05/2011 23:54

I cannot believe this. It is just so shocking. There will be hell of alot of people suffering the effects of this for some time. Even the reporter sounded shocked and shaken.
The pictures show the man being pinned down in the street being arrested after he ran out of the supermarket holding her head and apparently swinging it around. In the same picture on the same bit pf pavement are holiday makers staring in shock and worse still there are kids with them. Sad
Can you imagine if you had witnessed any part of this - the mess you would be in tonight?
Obviously it goes without saying the loved ones and family of the poor woman must also be suffering horrendously at this hideous and random attack.

elphabadefiesgravity · 13/05/2011 23:58

We were in Los Cristianos a couple of weeks ago. It is unbeleivable. How horrific.

JaceyBee · 14/05/2011 13:29

I just hope the lowlife, sick and twisted bastard who did this to her rots in hell for eternity

I work in mental health and I know this was a shocking and horrific thing to happen but comments like that are so unhelpful, he was clearly extremely ill the poor guy. Why was he not being looked after somewhere safe where he wasn't going to be a danger to himself and others? Apparently he had a history of violent attacks, he has been totally let down by the police and mental health services, this horrible thing should not have been allowed to happen. They have fucked up big time and this poor woman paid the price for that.

But calling him a lowlife bastard isn't fair, it's not his fault he's ill.

ExpatAgain · 14/05/2011 18:00

I agree but think it's only human to have the knee-jerk reaction of "thrash the bastard who did this" as it's such a truly horrific and random attack. Of course the guy needs help but even so...

lljkk · 14/05/2011 18:06

It's people who traumatise their victims for hours or even years who deserve the worst of our hate. Psychos who do it repeatedly as part of some God-awful genocide campaign (Rwanda, Darfur, Khmer Rouge...) Awful as this was... it was over and done with quickly, she didn't suffer like too many others do all too frequently.

Each new detail I find out out this incident shocks me, too.
Easy to imagine that he's well beyond help, tbh.

chimchar · 14/05/2011 18:06

The story is absolutely sickening. The poor poor ladies family. Just dreadful.

Collegemum is right. Imagine the horror of seeing something like this.

So dreadful.

electra · 14/05/2011 18:49

I agree with JaceyBee - it's the fault of the authorities for letting someone so ill that they are a danger to everyone run the streets.

Nancy66 · 14/05/2011 19:44

The woman has been named now and her photo released. A retired lady, mum and granny. She looks lovely.
it's so horrific it's almost unimaginable.

JaceyBee - yes, I know you're right but it's pretty hard to feel any sympathy for a human being that could do this to another.

NadiaWadia · 16/05/2011 00:23

I keep thinking, why didn't someone try and stop him?

Surely 2 or 3 people could have grabbed his arm or something?
After all, (and I know this is horrible to think about) but surely it takes a while to actually cut someone's head off?

Poor, poor woman. Horrific.

CogitoErgoSometimes · 16/05/2011 07:10

The woman had asked for help shortly before she was fatally attacked. A security guard in a nearby employment centre told a man to clear off. If he was a 'random nutter' then he was persistent.

lljkk · 16/05/2011 10:25

I think it must have been very quick, Nadia. There was a gang of them chasing him down the street, so no lack of people who wanted to be involved. If it was a sharp and strong machete a short series of swift strong blows would do it. And face it, would you approach a crazy man wielding a machete all by yourself? I'd want at least one other competent adult (preferably a man) to help, preferably several likely looking helpers if my children were present otherwise I have to prioritise protecting them.

I'm thinking of Lisa Potts (don't read if you're sensitive) who fended off (mostly single-handedly, iirc) a maniac with the machete; she saved many lives, but last I knew she had terrible PTSD from the attack, could not work for a long time. It's easier said than done to tackle someone like that.

NadiaWadia · 16/05/2011 15:24

lljkk, what you say makes sense.

I suppose it's just even more disturbing that it happened in public and apparently she had already asked for help. But yes, I can now see that anyone helping would have had to be very brave and mainly very very quick. They could have ended up dead too, or very badly injured.

Curiousmama · 17/05/2011 11:06

That is horrific Sad So scary to think it could've been anyone of us too.Those poor bystanders and her family Sad

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