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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
Message-ID: <ske6XzdIQdzKFwdv@anywhere.demon.co.uk>
Newsgroup: alt.politics.england.misc uk.media uk.legal uk.politics.misc
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.
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Robert Henderson
Blair Scandal website: http://www.geocities.com/ blairscandal/
Personal website: http://www.anywhere.demon.co.uk

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