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(UK) Stephen Lawrence murder - Dobson & Norris Guilty

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Miscarriages happen!
    remember Birmingham six, Guildford four, most people thought they were guilty at the time! because the media told us so!

    Batsy got banned for expressing his belief in this case and its the belief of a lot of people in England, i would believe someone from england who has a greater understanding of this stuff, than some paddy watching the bbc or sky. ;)

    I'm from England, and was brought up in a multi-racial, multi-ethnic community and wouldn't agree that a lot of people in England give two sh1ts about the murderers in this case.

    There's a bunch of no-hopers in the UK who believe that immigrants are responsible for their problems, and these are the only people calling the end result of this case a miscarriage of justice. These people would still be no-hopers even if there were no immigrants, because they probably slid through the education system, missing most of it on the way.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 136 ✭✭sausagehead


    Dudess wrote: »
    Well if you think it's reasonable to just throw out a belief and not support it, you'd probably be better off not getting involved in an online discussion.
    You don't have to understand British society to see the flaws in what he was babbling on about. You don't even need to be aged 13.
    Gang culture/ethnic tension are serious problems in parts of Britain - doesn't lessen the stupidity of what was said here though.

    His belief that they are innocent, could come from the evidence from the court case! they had alibis! and the flimsy DNA evidence. Does that have to be supported by a link or what!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 321 ✭✭Socialist_Pig


    tnynll wrote: »
    whats your point?? just because someone has low posts means they dont have a valid point ?? some people have lives and cant post every second of every day

    a lot of banned troll's re-reg and this type of thread(along with ones on Israel) attract them like flies to lump of sh1t.

    Having a low post count doesnt invalidate a lot of new comers posts,but if see a new boardsie posting racist cr@p they are nearly all re-reg'd trolls or fresh ones.

    Before you ask I closed a 4yr old account the day I set this one up:pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,651 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    His belief that they are innocent, could come from the evidence from the court case! they had alibis! and the flimsy DNA evidence. Does that have to be supported by a link or what!
    I think you'll find Batsy was banned because he kept on banging on about Stephen Lawrence being in a gang without providing any evidence, other than the fact he was black, to back up his claims despite being asked on numerous occasions to do so.

    His banning was bugger all to do with his belief that the two accused were innocent.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,305 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    tnynll wrote: »
    whats your point?? just because someone has low posts means they dont have a valid point ?? some people have lives and cant post every second of every day

    Ah yeah, as Socialist Pig says these threads attract them like a pig to shyte.

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 136 ✭✭sausagehead


    Batsy wrote: »
    Only because the judge put pressure on them to find the two men guilty.



    I prefer to believe the theory that Lawrence was part of one of London's many gangs and that he was murdered by a rival gang member

    Theorys aren't facts. so there is no need to to back it with evidence!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    tnynll wrote: »
    K-9 wrote: »
    Lot of re-regs and low post newcomers on threads like this, never changes.
    whats your point?? just because someone has low posts means they dont have a valid point ?? some people have lives and cant post every second of every day
    You know he means it's such a coincidence when a sh1t-stirrer is banned and a newly registered person or people post in support of the banned member.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Batsy wrote: »
    Only because the judge put pressure on them to find the two men guilty.



    I prefer to believe the theory that Lawrence was part of one of London's many gangs and that he was murdered by a rival gang member

    Theorys aren't facts. so there is no need to to back it with evidence!
    Yes there is - otherwise you could say anything about anything and the nutter ratio would go up. Not fair on those running the site. It's telling how he "prefers" to believe that theory - of course he does, because he hates blacks.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,184 ✭✭✭KINGVictor


    Theorys aren't facts. so there is no need to to back it with evidence!

    Well I could theorise that you are a bloody racist, bigot and a very intolerable individual that should be kept in an asylum in the 21st century for the benefit of mankind but I cant back it up with evidence so my theory is BS.....

    So is Batsys...you get me?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    The defence of those killers speaks to me as follows: "You can't even stab a black man to death these days without the PC brigade giving you grief" and not in a funny way... :-/


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭Father Damo


    The whol;e thing seems tremendously dodgy. Overturning the double jeopardy law and then miracolously finding new evidence.....sounds awful fishy. This case has been following the Met around like a bad smell for years now, they were eager to get rid of it.

    I also dont get how the police had come in for so much stick. The CPS were the ones who refused to persue it. ****, the police went to the effort of obtaining a court order to break into a suspects house and plant surveillance- that is effort Ive seldom seen with any other cases!

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

    At most there is one unproven claim of bribery. I think a bent cop would be prepared to take a bribe regardless of the victims race tbh.

    Im not saying they werent involved- they probably were. However people, particularly in Ireland, should be wiser than to know someone isnt guilty just because the newspapers say they are.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,651 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    I also dont get how the police had come in for so much stick. The CPS were the ones who refused to persue it. ****, the police went to the effort of obtaining a court order to break into a suspects house and plant surveillance- that is effort Ive seldom seen with any other cases!
    Well for one, the police took nearly two weeks to arrest any of the suspects despite them being named in tip-offs over 25 times in the 48hrs after the murder. Plenty of time for vital evidence to be disposed of.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭Father Damo


    El Weirdo wrote: »
    Well for one, the police took nearly two weeks to arrest any of the suspects despite them being named in tip-offs over 25 times in the 48hrs after the murder. Plenty of time for vital evidence to be disposed of.

    20 minutes is plenty of time to dispose of evidence. Truth is probably every young scobie in the area had his name mentioned at one point. Police cant go barging down doors in dawn raids because someone left some written messages in a bloody post box. You do realise that in order to obtain an arrest and search warrant the police have to present a judge with some sort of reasonable suspicion? Names on anonymous notes and the suspect having a rep as being a bit of a knacker? Please.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,029 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    brummytom wrote: »
    Reading your posts, I couldn't be any less proud to be British.

    I wouldn't worry too much about people who'd be dopey enough to think that Batsy was in any way representative of the vast majority of decent British folk. ;)
    bwatson wrote: »
    So it is racist now to say that black people are by far the most intollerant section of British society that I have come across?

    Maybe not racist - just pointless.
    Batsy got banned for expressing his belief in this case and its the belief of a lot of people in England

    People believe in fairies, ghosts and all sorts of rubbish too but that doesn't mean they should be taken seriously.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,651 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    20 minutes is plenty of time to dispose of evidence. Truth is probably every young scobie in the area had his name mentioned at one point. Police cant go barging down doors in dawn raids because someone left some written messages in a bloody post box. You do realise that in order to obtain an arrest and search warrant the police have to present a judge with some sort of reasonable suspicion? Names on anonymous notes and the suspect having a rep as being a bit of a knacker? Please.
    I wasn't on about the message in the post box. I was on about phone tip-offs.

    Also:
    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica]The policeman heading the Stephen Lawrence murder investigation has said he failed to realise he could make early arrests of the suspects because he did not understand a basic tenet of criminal law.

    Det Supt Brian Weeden led the investigation into the racist murder of the black A-level student for 18 months - starting three days after the killing.


    Stephen died after being stabbed at Eltham in south London in 1993. Mr Weeden told the inquiry into the murder and police investigation that he did not realise he could arrest the key suspects as soon as he had "reasonable grounds for belief".
    Instead, he insisted on waiting for firm evidence of guilt.
    Despite having headed heading a number of previous murder inquiries, Mr Weeden said he had only recently realised, after receiving legal advice, that that was the normal requirement for an arrest.


    Michael Mansfield QC, for the Lawrence family, asked him: "Do you find that it is rather disturbing that it has taken you all this time to recognise a basic tenet of criminal law?" Mr Weeden, now retired, responded: "I think it is regrettable."


    He said the evidence of a key witness would have provided him with enough proof to make arrests being made within hours. Stephen's father Neville, who is attending the inquiry, was angry and incredulous that Mr Weeden has misunderstood the law.



    "I am sick and disgusted to hear a senior police officer of 30 years experience admit that he did not know the police powers to arrest," he said outside the hearing.
    [/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica] "First of all they say it was a lack of information. Now they are saying they didn't know the law. What next?"[/FONT]


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,190 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    This case has been one rollercoaster of a ride which has finally brought justice to the family because of their determination to get it .When you hear of the poloice inspector who arrived on the case only to head off down to local pub to ' gather information ' it does tell you where the law and police reaction was at the time .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭Father Damo


    El Weirdo wrote: »
    I wasn't on about the message in the post box. I was on about phone tip-offs.

    Also:


    All that says to me is that the officer was incompetent, not racist.

    Again, its probably better that these two are off the streets but putting people away on flimsy evidence after a trial by media sets an awfully dangerous precedent. There were people calling for Joe Reilly to be hung after he appeared on the Late Late for "looking" guilty- a disturbing amount of the public dont seem to get the idea of trials, proof and evidence. And in this trial there was no concrete witness statements and some rather questionable DNA evidence. I wouldnt be surprised if this is thrown out on appeal.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,651 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    All that says to me is that the officer was incompetent, not racist.
    You asked why the police came in for so much stick and I gave you an example. I didn't mention police racism.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,933 ✭✭✭Logical Fallacy


    Batsy wrote: »
    Of course, the left wing ruling elite of Britain prefer to make us believe that because the victim was black then his killer (or killers) were obviously a group of thuggish, racist white men.

    Given when the crime was committed, i just copped on that you are calling John Major left wing.

    lol


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,651 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    Given when the crime was committed, i just copped on that you are calling John Major left wing.

    lol
    Don't forget the extreme left-wing publication that outed the gang as murderers.


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  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 4,149 Mod ✭✭✭✭bruschi


    All that says to me is that the officer was incompetent, not racist.

    Again, its probably better that these two are off the streets but putting people away on flimsy evidence after a trial by media sets an awfully dangerous precedent. There were people calling for Joe Reilly to be hung after he appeared on the Late Late for "looking" guilty- a disturbing amount of the public dont seem to get the idea of trials, proof and evidence. And in this trial there was no concrete witness statements and some rather questionable DNA evidence. I wouldnt be surprised if this is thrown out on appeal.

    I dont understand this. You point out the case of Joe O Reilly, who is now imprisoned after being found guilty, with unquestinoable evidence.

    There also was concrete witness evidence, Stephen Lawrences friend who witnessed the attacked picked out the accused in a police line up.

    Why do you consider the DNA evidence questionable? Do you not think, in the 20 years or so since the murder that scientific advances can actually improve, thereby increasing the foundation on which this evidence is presented? Tests were carried out a number of times, to increase the probablility. They did tests with dried blood to see if cross contamination could be the cause, and it was found negative. Do you really think a defence would not be able to argue against this if it is as flimsy as some seem to think?

    Its odd that you seem to question everyone who thinks they are guilty and saying 'its a trial by media' when its clear you dont know much about it yourself.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,146 ✭✭✭StephenHendry


    very good film about stephen lawrence on itv 3 last night. the surveillance video of the main suspects certainly tells you a lot about them,


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,024 ✭✭✭previous user


    I'm shocked that one of them went to college and was spouting rascist opinions and was part of the attack on the victim.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭Father Damo


    bruschi wrote: »
    There also was concrete witness evidence, Stephen Lawrences friend who witnessed the attacked picked out the accused in a police line up.

    Lawrences parents regarded him as a shady character before all this. Hardly a star witness.
    Why do you consider the DNA evidence questionable? Do you not think, in the 20 years or so since the murder that scientific advances can actually improve, thereby increasing the foundation on which this evidence is presented? Tests were carried out a number of times, to increase the probablility. They did tests with dried blood to see if cross contamination could be the cause, and it was found negative. Do you really think a defence would not be able to argue against this if it is as flimsy as some seem to think?

    Its odd that you seem to question everyone who thinks they are guilty and saying 'its a trial by media' when its clear you dont know much about it yourself.

    Absoloute arse.

    Again. Yes. They probably did it. Yes. If they did they deserve to be jailed. But jailing people on flimsy or fabricated evidence for political and social clout from the establishment is a dangerous precedent that the Irish know only too well about.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭Father Damo


    I'm shocked that one of them went to college and was spouting rascist opinions and was part of the attack on the victim.

    What? :confused:

    When I was 18 in college a lecturer offered to hold an hour after class as free near on one on one grinds. None of the lads took it up as he mentioned having met his "partner" at a college social- though he didnt act gay the use of partner vs girlfriend had the lads on the sus. This isnt the 60s- college attracts the same level of neanderthal as any other field these days.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,955 ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    What? :confused:

    When I was 18 in college a lecturer offered to hold an hour after class as free near on one on one grinds. None of the lads took it up as he mentioned having met his "partner" at a college social- though he didnt act gay the use of partner vs girlfriend had the lads on the sus. This isnt the 60s- college attracts the same level of neanderthal as any other field these days.


    Please tell me what "acting gay" is exactly?:confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,815 ✭✭✭tigger123


    What? :confused:

    When I was 18 in college a lecturer offered to hold an hour after class as free near on one on one grinds. None of the lads took it up as he mentioned having met his "partner" at a college social- though he didnt act gay the use of partner vs girlfriend had the lads on the sus. This isnt the 60s- college attracts the same level of neanderthal as any other field these days.

    "put the lads on the sus"? What does any of that mean?!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    What? :confused:

    When I was 18 in college a lecturer offered to hold an hour after class as free near on one on one grinds. None of the lads took it up as he mentioned having met his "partner" at a college social- though he didnt act gay the use of partner vs girlfriend had the lads on the sus. This isnt the 60s- college attracts the same level of neanderthal as any other field these days.

    Wha'


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,651 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    Lawrences parents regarded him as a shady character before all this. Hardly a star witness.
    Duwayne Brooks?

    What the fuck difference does what Lawrence's parents thought of him make?


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  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 4,149 Mod ✭✭✭✭bruschi


    Lawrences parents regarded him as a shady character before all this. Hardly a star witness.



    Absoloute arse.

    Again. Yes. They probably did it. Yes. If they did they deserve to be jailed. But jailing people on flimsy or fabricated evidence for political and social clout from the establishment is a dangerous precedent that the Irish know only too well about.

    arse? why because you say so. You should be a solicitor so with those kind of great rebuttals. It was forensic evidence rpesented in court. if it was flimsy it would have been thrown out. why do you say its 'arse'?


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