How come the Simmons' children were identified by the media?
Von: Robert Henderson (philip@anywhere.demon.co.uk) [Profil]
Datum: 08.10.2009 13:59
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Datum: 08.10.2009 13:59
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Note: The Telegraph story below was accompanied by photos of all the Simmons children, including three under the age of 18. The media is generally precious in the extreme about identifying those under the age of 18 and positively Soviet in their banning of identifiable photos of those under the age of 18. This means that trial after trial of under-18s convicted of crimes ranging from murder to GBH go unidentified. Yet in the case of the Simmons' children, the youngsters are cheerfully identified and their identification is accompanied by articles which plausibly could be said to have incited hatred against them. Why the difference? Well, must of the murderous teenage mayhem involves blacks and Asians: the Simmons' children are white. Draw own conclusions. RH Telegraph Police guard for 'family who made life hell' for Fiona Pilkington The family whose children have been accused of helping hound Fiona Pilkington to her death claimed they had become “victims” as neighbours drew up a petition calling for their eviction. By Nick Britten, Lucy Cockcroft and Nigel Bunyan Published: 7:00AM BST 30 Sep 2009 Steven and Suzanne Simmons who claim they are being threatened. Photo: Dale Cherry The Simmons family, whose 16-year-old son, Alex, is alleged to have been behind some of the worst anti-social behaviour which drove Miss Pilkington to commit suicide and kill her disabled daughter, protested that they were being “harassed”. In contrast to the indifferent response from police to Miss Pilkington’s 33 pleas for help, officers patrolled outside the Simmons’s home in Barwell, Leics, yesterday. They also visited the home of Alex Simmons’s grandmother to reassure her after the family received death threats. Neighbours described the heavy police presence in the street as the “ultimate irony” after the Leicestershire force failed to protect Miss Pilkington during a decade of verbal and physical abuse by a gang of youths. The case of Miss Pilkington put the policing of anti-social behaviour in the dock after an inquest jury decided that the failure of the criminal justice system to protect the family had contributed to the tragedy. Miss Pilkington killed herself and her daughter Francecca Hardwick, 18, by setting light to their car in October 2007 after giving up all hope of the police or local authority taking action against the gang. The Simmons family, who live a few doors away from Miss Pilkington’s former home, were named after the inquest as the subjects of an anti-social behaviour order granted after another family repeatedly complained to the police about their behaviour. It is also understood that the council is investigating allegations of anti-social behaviour involving at least two of the Simmons family in the past six weeks. -- Robert Henderson Blair Scandal website: http://www.geocities.com/ blairscandal/ Personal website: http://www.anywhere.demon.co.uk[ Auf dieses Posting antworten ]
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- The gods have made us mad (08.10.2009 17:07)
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