That Hammer attack at Ridgeway school

[Dozno9]

If Henry was a bloke walking home and was attacked without provacation or knowledge then he would be innocent. Arranging a fight and then turning up to that fight in order to give someone a good kicking is not innocent behaviour. The attack was disproportionate but that does not make him an innocent victim, a victim yes but not innocent.

And Hammer I quite like the irony of your name in this topic.

[Spencer_White]

This could have happened if it was a group of white lads against another white lad, just because they were asian it doesn't make it a racially motivated attack.

Just because they were Asians doesnt mean it should be swept under the carpet either.

They clearly had a gang mentality, and the police havnt properly investigated what their motivations were.

[Simon Pieman]

Did anyone get that England Defence League leaflet yesterday? It literally cracked me up reading it, unfortunately many will take it seriously.

[leefer]

Did anyone get that England Defence League leaflet yesterday? It literally cracked me up reading it, unfortunately many will take it seriously.

But many more wont.

[iffy]

Did anyone get that England Defence League leaflet yesterday? It literally cracked me up reading it, unfortunately many will take it seriously.

I picked that up. It was hilarious. My first reaction was that if you really believe those things, man up and join the BNP. The EDL is the Diet Coke of racist political parties. Real knuckledraggers handing them out too.

[Simon Pieman]

But many more wont.

Yes, but many will.

[Simon Pieman]

I picked that up. It was hilarious. My first reaction was that if you really believe those things, man up and join the BNP. The EDL is the Diet Coke of racist political parties. Real knuckledraggers handing them out too.

It's just football hooligans isn't it? Absolutely pointless organisation, they don't even know what they're supposed to be opposing (other than Muslims in general).

[herthab]

Just because they were Asians doesnt mean it should be swept under the carpet either.

They clearly had a gang mentality, and the police havnt properly investigated what their motivations were.

I don't think it was swept under the carpet, didn't the perpetrators get prison sentences?

I wasn't saying it was, or wasn't, a racial attack I was merely pointing out to the more bigoted amongst us that attacks like this are all too common and not always carried out by gangs who are asian.

[leefer]

Yes, but many will.

Not many.

[Spencer_White]

I don't think it was swept under the carpet, didn't the perpetrators get prison sentences?

I wasn't saying it was, or wasn't, a racial attack I was merely pointing out to the more bigoted amongst us that attacks like this are all too common and not always carried out by gangs who are asian.

Not adult gangs using weapons on kids after school. Playground arguments.

Definately not normal. Definately not common. When and where in the UK has it happened before? 13 of them, one sticking a hammer into his head, should have been fatal to be honest.

If they had been convicted of racially related crimes then they would have got double the sentances and none of them would have got off.

Racially related crimes and football related crimes are quite simmilar in law in that they can use actually quite loose links to bump up the charges. What else apart from racism could have caused a gang of 13 to attack Webster with a hammer? He said it himself.

Swept under the carpet for the sake of racial cohesion in Swindon and the UK.