Pete,
Just thinking I drove through a shady area in High Wycombe yesterday and my daughter asked why I'd locked the doors and subsequently ran a red light. I felt an increase in the perceived threat level with approximately five mixed race and black hoodies, and if stopped by them, my plan was drive through them. This is almost a frequent occurence if you are stupid (Like me yesterday) to even go anywhere near.
In 1993 I moved to Warrington (between Liverpool and Manchester) from rural Devon were there was virtually no crime.
Two months later:-
The murder of James Patrick Bulger (16 March 1990[1] – 12 February 1993), a two-year-old boy from Kirkby, Merseyside, England, took place on 12 February 1993. Bulger was abducted, tortured and murdered by two 10-year-old boys, Robert Thompson (born 23 August 1982) and Jon Venables (born 13 August 1982).[2] Bulger disappeared on 12 February 1993 from the New Strand Shopping Centre, Bootle, while accompanying his mother. His mutilated body was found on a railway line in nearby Walton on 14 February. Thompson and Venables were charged on 20 February 1993 with the abduction and murder.
Thompson and Venables were found guilty of the murder of Bulger on 24 November 1993, making them the youngest convicted murderers in modern English history.
Three months later:-
At 11:58am on 20 March 1993, the telephone help charity The Samaritans received a coded message that an IRA bomb was going to be detonated outside the Boots shop in Liverpool, fifteen miles away from Warrington. Merseyside Police investigated, and also warned the Cheshire Constabulary (who patrolled Warrington) of the threat, but it was too late to evacuate. At 12:12pm two bombs exploded, one outside Boots on Bridge Street and one outside the Argos catalogue store. Eyewitnesses said that "the first explosion drove panicking shoppers into the path of the next blast just seconds later." Buses were organised to ferry people away from the scene and 20 paramedics and crews from 17 ambulances were sent to deal with the aftermath. It was later determined that the bombs had been placed inside cast-iron litter bins, causing large amounts of shrapnel.
Three-year-old Johnathan Ball died at the scene, while his babysitter survived. The second victim, 12-year-old Tim Parry, survived the impact with multiple injuries, but died on 25 March 1993 when doctors switched his life support machine off, having asked permission to do so from his family after a series of tests had found minimal brain activity. 54 other people were injured, four of them seriously.
Thirteen years later :-
Shafilea Ahmed , 17, went missing from home in Warrington in September 2003.
Her body was found in the River Kent in Cumbria in January 2004. No-one has ever been charged with her murder, but police did initially arrest her parents on suspicion of kidnap.
They believed it had been a so-called "honour killing" but the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) later concluded there was insufficient evidence.
Seventeen years later :-
Garry Newlove (5 November 1959 - 12 August 2007) was an English man beaten to death in August 2007 in the UK
Mr Newlove was attacked outside his house in Warrington, Cheshire, on 10 August 2007, having gone outside to confront a gang of youths who were vandalising his Renault Scenic car. He died in hospital two days later.
Three teenagers were arrested and charged with his murder on 14 August 2007 and remanded in custody. A fourth teenager was charged and remanded the next day and the fifth and final suspect was charged and remanded on 13 September.
This year :-
POLICE believe a man who was stabbed and strangled to death in his own home was murdered for his life savings.
Carl Chadwick, 40, known as “Dancing Carl”, who was found dead at his flat in Grasmere Avenue, Orford, Warrington, on Saturday, January 29, was widely known to keep cash at his home rather than in a bank account.
Detectives investigating his murder believe several thousand pounds may have been taken from the flat following his death.
A 39-year-old man, arrested last week, has been bailed until April.
So is really Muslims, mixed race and black hoodies I should fear ?
