last week 23-year-old Evren Anil was in the passenger seat of his sister’s car as she pulled up at traffic lights at the junction with Gipsy Road. Two black teenagers walked past and threw a Lion bar into the car. Anil got out to confront them, the boys produced a knife and hit him. He fell to the floor and smashed his head on the pavement, dying of his injuries a few days later.
His murder followed that of Gary Newlove, a 47-year-old father-of-three who died after being attacked by a gang of drunken teenagers in Warrington last Sunday.
The attorney general has decided a juror who allegedly listened to music during a murder trial will face no further legal action. Ruhela Khanom, in her 20s, was accused of hiding an MP3 player and earphones beneath an Islamic hijab or headscarf.
This is BOUND to stir up hostility - people have been JAILED for less.
It actually takes some considerable effort to addict oneself to opiates: The average heroin addict has been taking it for a year before he develops an addiction. Like many people who are able to take opiates intermittently, De Quincey took opium every week for several years before becoming habituated to it. William Burroughs, who lied about many things, admitted truthfully that you may take heroin many times, and for quite a long period, before becoming addicted.
Heroin doesn’t hook people; rather, people hook heroin. It is quite untrue that withdrawal from heroin or other opiates is a serious business, so serious that it would justify or at least mitigate the commission of crimes such as mugging. Withdrawal effects from opiates are trivial
