Six killed in Jersey knife attack

Balfie

Six people have died following a knife attack on the Channel island of Jersey, police said.
The victims include two men, two women and two young children
Police were called to a flat at Victoria Crescent, Upper Midvale Road, St Helier, just after 3pm amid reports of a multiple stabbing.
States of Jersey Police initially confirmed five people died and a sixth person was in a critical condition and undergoing surgery at Jersey Hospital.
The sixth person was later confirmed to have died.
A 30-year-old man is under arrest at the same hospital where he is also recovering from surgery, police said in a statement tonight.
A major incident room has been set up at police headquarters in St Helier.
A number of witnesses have come forward and police are working to identify the victims.
Forensic officers were at the scene, with uniformed officers and detectives.

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The world just gone crazy?? Adults get killed, but why the fuk would ya want to stab to death young children. Just sicken's me to the core!


R.I.P

Bipolar Joe

The world is fucked up, man.

Odysseus

God that is a major incident for them over there. It is such a small place that the crime rate is quite low. I lived there for about five years when I was younger. RIP to the victims

My name is URL

Balfie wrote: »

The world just gone crazy??

The world has always been crazy

Onesimus

Why would you wanna stab ANYBODY not to mention little innocent children?:eek::(

this is terrible news. the world is crazy. May God receive them gladly.

RIP

Namlub

For I second I thought it was going to be the cast of Jersey Shore...

Cavehill Red

My first thoughts are with the families of the victims. RIP.
My next thought is the same one I always have immediately after such events like the Norwegian shooting: when is one of those crazed loner lunatics who goes postal going to do society a favour instead of killing random, innocent children and young people?
I'll personally fly to the graveside and deliver flowers to whatever nutjob decides to go out with a bang by taking his semi-automatic into the Anglo Irish or JP Morgan Chase boardroom instead of wiping out innocent young people starting out on their lives.

arybvtcw0eolkf

Sat through the news tonight and listened to reports that the Syrian navy were shelling one of their coastal towns, and that 29 people had been killed in a suicide bombing in Pakistan - but when this broke the person with me immediately said "God, thats awful".

I asked her 'did you listen to the reports from Syria and Pakistan' I got a blank look.

Yes, the Jersey attack is awful but it ain't the biggest thing happening tonight.

galwayrush

My name is URL wrote: »

The world has always been crazy

Yep, same ****, just happening to new people.
Sad, RIP to the victims.

For Forks Sake

Someone call Bergerac, he'll sort it.






Too soon?

Stompbox

Not trying to detract from the seriousness of the killings but posting this in After Hours? Come on, there's waaaay too much doom and gloom on this forum, this is meant to be a forum where we can kick back and chew the fat.

J K

Virginia Rough Therapy wrote: »

I asked her 'did you listen to the reports from Syria and Pakistan' I got a blank look.
Yes, the Jersey attack is awful but it ain't the biggest thing happening tonight.

Also - Utds two first choice centre halves are out of action with injury.
Darkness descends on the world tonight.

tallus

Virginia Rough Therapy wrote: »

Yes, the Jersey attack is awful but it ain't the biggest thing happening tonight.

It's the biggest thing in this neck of the woods.

Not trying to detract from "other" negative happenings though.

indioblack

Virginia Rough Therapy wrote: »

Sat through the news tonight and listened to reports that the Syrian navy were shelling one of their coastal towns, and that 29 people had been killed in a suicide bombing in Pakistan - but when this broke the person with me immediately said "God, thats awful".

I asked her 'did you listen to the reports from Syria and Pakistan' I got a blank look.

Yes, the Jersey attack is awful but it ain't the biggest thing happening tonight.

Well, they're dead - that's big enough.

arybvtcw0eolkf

For Forks Sake wrote: »

Someone call Bergerac, he'll sort it.

Oh, THAT Jersey, makes all the difference..

Thats awful, such a tiny place too.. RIP.

Master and commander

apparently it's a Polish man who did it. Honestly, in this case i was not too surprised to learn it was a Polish non national. What a disgrace and a waste of life that has happened here.
Jersey has such a small population and is close knit so an occurance like this will never be forgotten for a long time yet

El Weirdo

Master and commander wrote: »

Honestly, in this case i was not too surprised to learn it was a Polish non national.

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Pyr0

Master and commander wrote: »

apparently it's a Polish man who did it. Honestly, in this case i was not too surprised to learn it was a Polish non national. What a disgrace and a waste of life that has happened here.
Jersey has such a small population and is close knit so an occurance like this will never be forgotten for a long time yet

This is going to be good.

Nodin

Master and commander wrote: »

apparently it's a Polish man who did it. Honestly, in this case i was not too surprised to learn it was a Polish non national. .........

Do be as good as to inform as to why.

Master and commander

Nodin wrote: »

Do be as good as to inform as to why.

It said on breaking news that a polish man was being held.

Well i've always heard people including my mother saying that polish men were generally more aggressive, particularly when they had drink taken, and that it was fairly common that street violence and various stabbings were attributed to polish men. A neighbour was telling me in the pub one night around christmas that it was becasue there is military conscription in poland and that the men were all trained in hand to hand combat with knives, and that when in combination with the eastern europeans' affinity for vodka it could be a dangerous and lethal combination. Now, i usually brushed it off as nonsense as i live in a rural area and thought this talk was just scapegoating and xenophobic rubbish, but....

Wertz

First thing I said to a mate of mine last night when this came on the news was "Bet it's not island residents", I meant both victims and suspect.
What is it with foreign workers going overseas and stabbing the sh*te out of one another? More than a regular occurence. Of course I'm being racist saying any of that but I don't really care...

Nodin

Master and commander wrote: »

............

Well i've always heard people including my mother saying that polish men were generally more aggressive, particularly when they had drink taken, and that it was fairly common that street violence and various stabbings were attributed to polish men. Now, i usually brushed it off as nonsense as i live in a rural area and thought this talk was just scapegoating and xenophobic rubbish, but....

.....the sad thing is that theres every chance you happen to be serious. It is scapegoating, xenophobic, and shows a marked tendency to selectively notice who is from where in the news.

Every now and then, somebody goes "mental" and kills a number of people in their own family, and possibly others. We've had a few cases here over the last few years. We even had one where the mother and father were arranging the funeral beforehand and ordering the coffins for the kids.

Nodin

Wertz wrote: »

First thing I said to a mate of mine last night when this came on the news was "Bet it's not island residents", I meant both victims and suspect.
What is it with foreign workers going overseas and stabbing the sh*te out of one another? More than a regular occurence. Of course I'm being racist saying any of that but I don't really care...

Course ye don't. Stereotyping saves effort thinking.

DonJose

Wertz wrote: »

First thing I said to a mate of mine last night when this came on the news was "Bet it's not island residents", I meant both victims and suspect.
What is it with foreign workers going overseas and stabbing the sh*te out of one another? More than a regular occurence. Of course I'm being racist saying any of that but I don't really care...

I thought the exact same thing, however I was thinking along the lines of Latvian or Lithuanian.

Nodin

Master and commander wrote: »

. ..............A neighbour was telling me in the pub one night around christmas that it was becasue there is military conscription in poland and that the men were all trained in hand to hand combat with knives, and that when in combination with the eastern europeans' affinity for vodka it could be a dangerous and lethal combination.....

It was your mother, before your ninja edit, saying they were "generally more aggressive".

Simon Adebisi

Roid rage.

Guaranteed.

Nodin

DonJose wrote: »

I thought the exact same thing, however I was thinking along the lines of Latvian or Lithuanian.

In the 1980's, when you heard some Irish lad had been stabbed in London, nine times out of ten it was by another paddy. Why? Because six or seven young lads with nothing in common in small accommodation plus drink and testosterone is a lethal combination. Simple as that.

This, however, seems to be one of those Family/Suicide things, except he made a botch of the suicide.

saintsaltynuts

For Forks Sake wrote: »

Someone call Bergerac, he'll sort it.






Too soon?

Just a little bit son.

El Weirdo

Master and commander wrote: »

...people including my mother... A neighbour was telling me in the pub one night...

Oh well then, that obviously makes it true.

Carry on.

Master and commander

eh, no i said she said the agressive thing to me and then on a completely different ocasion a neighbour told me about the constription thing. Just adding to it, rahter then the "ninja" edit
That neighbour is a farmer i used work for and he knew that cos he had polish lads working wiht him one summer and he told them about their time in the army in poland and that they were conscripted afer school. I'd say he's reliable, but this is getting of topic.

El Weirdo

Master and commander wrote: »

eh, no i said she said the agressive thing to me and then on a completely different ocasion a neighbour told me about the constription thing. Just adding to it, rahter then the "ninja" edit
That neighbour is a farmer i used work for and he knew that cos he had polish lads working wiht him one summer and he told them about their time in the army in poland and that they were conscripted afer school. I'd say he's reliable, but this is getting of topic.

Reliable? I'd say, if anything, he's over-qualified to be commenting on such matters.

Polish lads working with him for a whole summer?! We'd clearly be fools to question this intellectual colossus of knowledge on the psyche of the average Polish man.

Local-womanizer

Master and commander wrote: »

It said on breaking news that a polish man was being held.

Well i've always heard people including my mother saying that polish men were generally more aggressive, particularly when they had drink taken, and that it was fairly common that street violence and various stabbings were attributed to polish men.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0815/letterkenny.html

This type of behavior is not limited to certain nationalities.

inkwell

Nodin wrote: »

In the 1980's, when you heard some Irish lad had been stabbed in London, nine times out of ten it was by another paddy. Why? Because six or seven young lads with nothing in common in small accommodation plus drink and testosterone is a lethal combination. Simple as that.

The only wise comment here. I didnt think all Irish man are rapist when one raped and killed Swiss student in Galway.
Jesus, people -think before you say something!