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Crimes that have stayed with you for years
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Parabellum9 wrote: »Dunblane - I remember my mam and dad being traumatised for a day or 2 by it and I was too young to understand what had happened. They were expecting my sister at the time (unknown to me till months later) and called her Sophie after one of the victims.
Was too young for Dunblaine to have an impact on me but I follow tennis and years later Andy Murray revealed he was in the school that day hiding in the gym. Read an aritcle on it and it was horrific, a man with 700 rounds of bullets shooting at five and six years olds, 16 dead in total.
Sandy Hook a few years ago had an impact on me, again a similar crime but this time 28 children killed. The aftermath of it was even worse because gun nuts from the NRA and Trump supporters spread nasty online conspiracy theories that it didnt happen at all and that the grieving parents were just "crisis actors". One prominent pair of parents who lost their son in the massacre went on to call for gun controls. What they got for their troubles was death threats from gun nuts and they had to sell their house and move state completely.
They were found in the new location and doxxed online, more death threats came and they had to move again. The far right conspiracy theorist and Trump supporter Alex Jones was behind a lot of it on his Infowars channel. The parents sued him and won. As if having your child murdered wasnt bad enough their whole life was then turned upside down and they were frightened for their lives that they too were going to be shot and all just for having an opinion that America needs gun controls.Irish_peppa wrote: »Another one i found quite chilling was the former model Eric Locks killing of Sonia Blount.
He set up a fake facebook profile and tricked her into meeting him in a hotel in Tallght where he strangled her.
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/hotel-killer-eric-locke-is-rooming-with-a-vile-paedophile-teacher-who-raped-pupil-7-36166473.html
Yeah the murder of Sonia Blount in the Plaza Hotel, Tallaght sticks with me as I drive by it now and again and am reminded of it. Theres another murder in Tallaght that sticks too, a young lad called Dale Creighton on a pedestrian bridge on New Years eve 2014 got hopped on by six men and one woman who beat him up in a sustained attack that went on and on until Gardai showed up. In court a witness said he was like a rag doll and even though he was unconscious they were holding him up against railings to beat him some more. When he dropped to the ground they literally danced on his head. He went into a coma and died in hospital two days later.
Thankfully all of them were convicted. It happened not far from the Plaza Hotel and when you drive under the pedestrian bridge you can often see flowers there where it happened, that makes it stick in the mind as well as you know its his parents putting them there and that then makes me think of how devastated they must be.
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Was too young for Dunblaine to have an impact on me but I follow tennis and years later Andy Murray revealed he was in the school that day hiding in the gym. Read an aritcle on it and it was horrific, a man with 700 rounds of bullets shooting at five and six years olds, 16 dead in total.
Sandy Hook a few years ago had an impact on me, again a similar crime but this time 28 children killed. The aftermath of it was even worse because gun nuts from the NRA and Trump supporters spread nasty online conspiracy theories that it didnt happen at all and that the grieving parents were just "crisis actors". One prominent pair of parents who lost their son in the massacre went on to call for gun controls. What they got for their troubles was death threats from gun nuts and they had to sell their house and move state completely.
They were found in the new location and doxxed online, more death threats came and they had to move again. The far right conspiracy theorist and Trump supporter Alex Jones was behind a lot of it on his Infowars channel. The parents sued him and won. As if having your child murdered wasnt bad enough their whole life was then turned upside down and they were frightened for their lives that they too were going to be shot and all just for having an opinion that America needs gun controls.
Yeah the murder of Sonia Blount in the Plaza Hotel, Tallaght sticks with me as I drive by it now and again and am reminded of it. Theres another murder in Tallaght that sticks too, a young lad called Dale Creighton on a pedestrian bridge on New Years eve 2014 got hopped on by six men and one woman who beat him up in a sustained attack that went on and on until Gardai showed up. In court a witness said he was like a rag doll and even though he was unconscious they were holding him up against railings to beat him some more. When he dropped to the ground they literally danced on his head. He went into a coma and died in hospital two days later.
Thankfully all of them were convicted. It happened not far from the Plaza Hotel and when you drive under the pedestrian bridge you can often see flowers there where it happened, that makes it stick in the mind as well as you know its his parents putting them there and that then makes me think of how devastated they must be.
I live in Tallaght and remember the case at the bridge well. I heard he was thrown head first down the concrete steps of the bridge and some even worse thoughts I hope aren't true.
Another more recent case was the fella from Clondalkin who was part of a stags and they were drinking in the Killinarden Inn. Some altercation happened and he was beaten to death few hundred meters down the road by I think 3 fellas. Cross and flowers still there.0 -
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Ah yes, the murder of Nicola Furlong. Such a pretty girl. Why she went back to the hotel with that monster I'll never understand. The killer has shown no remorse but thankfully the Japanese have a proper justice system so he won't be enjoying freedom anytime soon. Compare to how the Irish justice system treated the Japanese student murdered by the jihadi in the Dundalk terrorist attack in January 2018. The Egyptian terrorist confessed he carried out the attack on behalf of ISIS yet the Irish authorities immediate reaction was to brush it under the carpet "shhh, don't talk about that, it was mental health issues". Our so called justice system a national embarrassment on the world stage. The victim's older sister, Shiori Sasaki, said it best: "I can't understand why a mentally unstable foreign national, whose origin was unknown, was allowed to be in the town. Mr Morei had his rights protected but my brother was deprived of his. It is truly infuriating and will forever be unforgivable".
RIP Nicola Furlong.
RIP Yosuke Sasaki.
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Ah yes, the murder of Nicola Furlong. Such a pretty girl. Why she went back to the hotel with that monster I'll never understand. The killer has shown no remorse but thankfully the Japanese have a proper justice system so he won't be enjoying freedom anytime soon. Compare to how the Irish justice system treated the Japanese student murdered by the jihadi in the Dundalk terrorist attack in January 2018. The Egyptian terrorist confessed he carried out the attack on behalf of ISIS yet the Irish authorities immediate reaction was to brush it under the carpet "shhh, don't talk about that, it was mental health issues". Our so called justice system a national embarrassment on the world stage. The victim's older sister, Shiori Sasaki, said it best: "I can't understand why a mentally unstable foreign national, whose origin was unknown, was allowed to be in the town. Mr Morei had his rights protected but my brother was deprived of his. It is truly infuriating and will forever be unforgivable".
RIP Nicola Furlong.
RIP Yosuke Sasaki.
On Nicola furlong, I'm pretty sure she was barely concious, the guy carried her out of the bar into a taxi. Folks if you see men carrying unconscious women out of pubs, maybe enquire at least. Might get you punched in the face but it mght also save a woman's life!0 -
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