Britain staggers even further toward anarcho-tyranny as TV presenter and Marks & Spencer model Myleene Klass is warned by police for brandishing a kitchen knife to deter intruders outside her window at night:
Klass was in the kitchen with her daughter upstairs when she spotted the youths in her garden just after midnight on Friday. She grabbed a knife and banged the windows before they ran away.Hertfordshire police warned her she should not have used a knife to scare off the youths because carrying an “offensive weapon”, even in her own home, was illegal.
In other news, a Sikh man in a London suburb was stabbed and killed trying to stop a mugger from running off with a woman’s purse:
Detective Inspector John Sandlin said: “This is a tragic death of a man who was killed for attempting to stop others committing crime, and our thoughts are with Sukhwinder’s family. However, I would also to reassure the wider community that tragic events such as these are very rare.“What Mr Singh did was obviously very brave but I would not encourage that members of the public do that. What I would encourage the public to do is contact us immediately.”
Apparently contacting the police immediately stops crime:
The attack comes weeks after Home Office figures indicated that 375,000 people were mugged in England and Wales last year – the equivalent of one every 90 seconds.
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The charity Witness Confident reported recently that nine out of 10 muggers escaped justice last year, and warned that the public were so disillusioned with the police and criminal justice system that only 153,750 of the crimes estimated to have taken place – about 40% – were reported.East London remains a “hotspot” for knife crime, with weapon carrying a problem, particularly among gang members. Days before Christmas an 18-year-old was found lying in a Bow street after being attacked with a knife. Salum Kombo died after suffering multiple stab wounds in an attack just yards from his home.
The government recently called for tougher sentences for knife crime, while last week a court heard how a man carried out a casual knife-point mugging in the hope he would be deported back to his war-torn African homeland because he hated life in Britain.