Charlene Downes accused to be retried next year

Posted by Guessedworker on Tuesday, 07 August 2007 17:03.

The trial of Iyad Albattikhi at Preston Crown Court came to a close today when, after 10 days of deliberations, the jury was unable to reach a verdict. Justice Henriques:-

told them: “It is with very great regret I discharge you from returning a verdict. There will be a retrial.

“I would like to thank you for the very, very conscientious way you have gone about this case.”

He praised them for being “highly professional” in the midst of “continuous tensions and pressure”.

Mr Henriques thanked the Downes family for the “admirable way they had conducted themselves” throughout the hearing.

He added that the retrial was likely to take place around January next year and would be at Preston Crown Court or Manchester Crown Court.

Charlene’s mother and father spoke briefly to reporters on the steps of the courthouse (video).

The outcome is, perhaps, not surprising given the quality of the evidence presented to the court. In the absence of DNA evidence, an audio recording of the barely distinguishable voices of Albattikhi and his business partner Mohammed Reveshi seems to have been the principal exhibit. The two men denied even knowing Charlene, and claimed that references to her on the recording were totally innocent and misunderstood. In the normal course of things, and assuming that no new evidence is unearthed by Lancashire Police, this should be enough to see them escape conviction next year.

I would very much like to know the ethnic make-up of the twelve men and women of the jury, and how they divided in the jury room. I would also like to know whether the accepted fact of child abuse by “some of the men” working in the takeaways frequented by Charlene and other girls has triggered a police investigation. I doubt it. Other instances of grooming of white girls by Moslems in England’s northern towns have been ignored by police. They would, after all, generate the “continuous tensions and pressure” referred to by Justice Henriques.

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Comments:

Posted by PF on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:19 | #

From House of Dumb:

Consider exhibit A: the Wikipedia entry on Charlene Downes. Or rather don’t - it’s been deleted by the Libs. The excuses given are priceless:

“The murder case is not terribly notable; the victim is not notable (or encyclopaedic) at all.”
Unlike Sir Anthony Walker VC MD, who needless to say, is covered.

“nothing paticuarly notable - unless there was an uproar over the girl getting served in food.”

Well, quite. Perhaps sensing that claiming that the case wasn’t notable, providing you ignored all the notable bits, wasn’t necessarily a wining argument, the Leftards switched to Plan B: it’s all about the dark forces.

“People are murdered every day, other than the soapboxing by a far right party which doesn’t prove notability. there’s no evidence of the significance of this one”

From BNP and me, a guy commenting on the incident, writing under the moniker of USpace, suggestive of his being an American, demonstrated the ideological hamster-wheel in which Anglosaxons everywhere are pedalling towards their collective future:

USpace said…
Wow, very sad and maddening story. Hopefully they will fry these terrorist monkeys.

But the Wikipedia entry was probably deleted by some ‘editor’ who is Islamist. Anybody, even you and me, can add to Wikipedia OR delete from it.

This is one of the main criticisms of Wikipedia. Just sign up and follow the instructions and add the post, then keep an eye on it to see wether the Islamists delete it again.

Damn ‘Islamists’, ruining Wikipedia!

Posted by PF on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:31 | #

For comparison’s sake, here is a wikipedia article, whose purpose is to describe a fictional setting for a video game:

Races and governments
The governments of this time are usually limited to nothing larger than local governments consisting of a village mayor or elder. Part of the reason is that there are very few people (and a lack of dry land) in the post-flood world, <U>but there are still many diverse races living in and around the Great Sea.</U>

Here is another article, which purports to describe a fictional race of beings who inhabit this fictional island.

Koroks are a race from The Wind Waker. They come from an area called the Forest Haven, but spend most of their lives away from it. They have wooden-like bodies (somewhat similar to Deku Scrubs) and wear what look like masks made from various types of leaves. Koroks are very light, and can travel on the wind by using sprouts as propellers.

If one of these fictional races in a video game were to get into a fictional conflict with another fictional race in the video game, would it be ‘notable’? Would it be worthy of an entry in the Encyclopedia?

Posted by Guessedworker on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 23:42 | #

Here, of course, is the page on Damilola Taylor, stabbed to death by two black brothers:-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damilola_Taylor

There were two other failed prosecutions and much institutional failure in the investigative teams, including forensics, which make the Damilola story unusual and worthy of a place in Wikipedia.

Here, however, is the page on Kiyan Prince, stabbed to death by a Somali named Hannad Hasan:-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyan_Prince

Kiyan is accorded a page, apparently, because he had some likelihood of becoming a footballer.

So, let us suppose that a fourteen year old girl named Yassmin Khan had disappeared during a period when leading Muslim organisations were warning police across the north of England that groups of white men were grooming Muslim girls for sexual abuse. One or two cases of abuse arise, but are smothered by the police and a willing press.

Then Yassmin disappears, only for rumours to surface much later that she had been abused by white men in Blackpool for a considerable time, along with other Muslim girls. And now a local white butcher and his landlord were under arrest, and charged with disposing of her body in the most shocking and bestial manner imaginable ...

Not sufficiently notable like Charlene Downes? Not as notable as Anthony Walker, Damilola Taylor, Kiyan Prince? Or just not black?

The Wikipedia sayanim look very like racists to me.