Footage of two Afghan illegal immigrants abducting a girl, 15, was deemed "so appalling" it "could cause riots". That's a view and strong opinion. Personally I don't think so, no one needs to see footage of a rape being conducted. If nothing else should consider the victim and be respectful for the poor girl. The backstory growing is how society but more particular those with authority are not protecting vulnerable females, by that l mean females in all aspects. Society doesn't not present them with enough respect, support nor legal resources. Catalogue of harm, abuse, sexual trafficking. It has gone on with political classes sleepwalking. This was framework that blog addressed yesterday. Righteousness, mercy, grace, Justice. In 1993, the James Bulger abduction CCTV footage was released "to facilitate an informed public debate" on public safety ? Is it time to do the same again?
This they are suggesting has likeness to the killings of child in Liverpool L4 decades ago. Unsure if the issues are framed like some are heralding. But anger boiling, sheer evil projected has echoes. James Bulger murder in February 1993. Coming out of University with my Qualification was miserable sideshow. Throughout Anfield/Walton/Kirby area at the time, because you knew both the areas the killers (Jon Venables and Robert Thompson) came from, parish you worker for Anfield, was moved to that immediate patch to Norris Green for my practice to be evident in that hot bed.
The night the police released the names and the fact the killers were local 10-year-old boys from norris green... it was absolute bedlam. Norris green was like a tinderbox. Mobs were formed, people were out on the streets, bricks through windows, taxis full of men seeking revenge ?Unconnected families having to be moved in the middle of the night.
Ralph and Denise Bulger somehow kept going through sheer grief, heart broken pain, disbelief. Ralph in particular was in pieces; he barely spoke for weeks. The extended family closed ranks around them, but the pressure was unimaginable. I have often asked, prayed, wondered how any of them coped is beyond comprehension.
A lot of youth workers, probation staff, social workers who were on the patch at the time were quietly reassigned or just told to keep their heads down for months afterwards. Some never went back to certain estates. Pain, anger, spirit ,fallout changed many around Merseyside for generations impact still echoes this day. Are we experiencing people of evil and acts of evil raising further hatred, panic and untrustworthy responses ?.
