Murders of two gay men in Sligo

A large part of the story here is that Islamic fundamentalism in part caused someone who is gay to hate themselves so much they decided to kill in order to assuage their own self hatred.

If he had been from a strict catholic family and was white we all know that Catholicism would be getting massive criticism for contributing to such self hatred that can cause harm to others and rightly so.

The LGBT movement with the lack of comment on the obvious root of this fella's hatred (apart from him being a nutter obviously) and their whole "Queers for Palestine" current movement shows you that LGBT movement is no longer a gay rights group it's just another boring leftist group that strictly follows the leftist victim/perpetrator doctrine regardless of how contradictory their stance may be.

Well see intellectually superior people like Izzy Kamikazy thinks that's problematic...

It's danger for her because if she's was seen in any way to be blaming Islamic culture she's be ostraciced by her mates. Like Ruth Coppinger knows, the target is white Irish society.

That's not what the article says, Literally the opposite.

Lemme guess, you know someone who told you the "real story"

I'll read the actual lines instead.

The Sunday World had an extensive interview with Anthony Burke. Palani inflicted life-changing physical and mental harm and suffering on Mr. Burke who confirms my reading of Palani's statement to the court - no remorse, no apology.

Mr. Burke is also critical of the Gardai because they initially did not take him seriously. And it seems he received little support on the day of the trial, although he was the only surviving victim and the essential witness if Palani changed his plea (as he could have done that morning). It was only at the trial that he discovered that Palani had told the Gardai he wanted to cut his head off.

Naturally, he is also critical of the DPP for not charging Palani with attempted murder in his case. Interestingly, he says

Someone decided to reduce the attempted murder charge to a much lesser assault charge. Who and why? Questions our media have not bothered to ask about the most horrific murder case in recent years.

A member of Palani's family said the family has disowned him but was "too upset to speak any further on the matter". Of course.

Considering that only a very small percentage of people under the age of 40 are now practicing Catholics it's going to be very difficult going forward in Ireland to blame any homophobia that may exist in Ireland on the church.

What would’ve happened if he had succeeded in killing more men? If Anthony Burke had died the Gardaí would’ve taken longer to get a description and link it definitively to the gay dating apps, he would’ve continued and was talking to another victim when he was arrested. He had up to twelve people on a list from the apps, so up to 9 other people may have been killed with Gardaí saying that 5 were at imminent risk.

How long would he likely have been able to keep killing and evade detection by Gardaí? Surely at some stage the Gardaí would begin to suspect a homophobic angle and warn the local LGBT community, Palani had no car and therefore not able to travel further afield. He probably would’ve been caught eventually but how long could this have hypothetically gone on for?

Not trying to be morbid or anything just genuinely curious if the Gardaí had the resources to trace a completely unknown serial killer, virtually unknown in Irish history.

Yes. Around a dozen.

My question is could he conceivably have killed all of them before the Gardaí copped who he was? Do they have the resources?

This. All three victims were middle-aged single gay men who lived alone, in on near Sligo, and who were attacked at night in their own homes. All three attacks took place over a period of four days. Even Inspector Clouseau would have been checking out the Tinder profiles of the three victims, and I think there would have been quite a short list of people who had contacted all three of the victims via Tinder in the days before their murders.

This was a grotesque crime, but I don't think it was a difficult crime to solve. From memory, Palani was arrested within a few hours of the second murder. We have no reason to think that he was identified or charged on the basis of information provided by the victim who survived.

If, God forbid, Anthony Burke had been murdered rather than just gravely assaulted, I think the Guards would likely have established very quickly that he was gay. Similarly if the other two had been closeted. And even before establishing that, when you have an almost nightly series of savage attacks on middle-aged never-married men who live alone, the possibility that you're looking at a campaign directed against gay men (or against men the perpetrator thinks are gay) is going to leap unbidden to your mind, isn't it?

Especially when they discover the perpetrator had sex with at least one victim.

The media went very quiet because in their eyes it was a case of "friendly fire". Despite apparently valuing diversity, they see immigrants, women, travellers, muslims, trans people, black people, asylum seekers etc. as interchangeable members of the same "side" united in victimhood. The other "side" are straight white men. In their narrative; violence, discrimination and hatred are a one way process, perpetuated solely by straight white men on the aforementioned groups.

When a muslim immigrant kills gay men, it's going off script so they'll just quietly not mention it.

Tbf, gardai have a very good result with murder.

gang/drug related murder exempted, even though in those cases they normally know who the offender is, just don't have the evidence for a trial.

ordinary crime murders are usually solved.

Twenty years.