On Knives and Guns
by I write this as an eye opener for all of us and also because many of the things I mention surprised me in the first instance. Law had been on the side of the knife crime offenders which is the prime reason of the spread of this menace.
I write this as an eye opener for all of us and also because many of the things I mention surprised me in the first instance.
Ben Kinsella was a victim of street knife crime who was murdered without any provocation by three youths and after a lengthy legal battle the killers were brought to justice, I mean the ‘UK justice’. Father of Ben, Mr. George, has stepped up his campaign against tougher action to stamp knife crime.
Ben’s father demands stronger penalties urgently. He says that the boys who killed Ben got life sentences but not life in its actual meaning. It startled me beyond imagination when it was revealed to me that the starting tariff for a stab murder is 15 years but if someone is killed with a gun then it is 30 years.
So I also wondered, and Ben’s father rightly did, what is the difference between killing with a knife or a gun or perhaps anything in this sense? And the life punishment is way too complacent and that is the reason for the increase in the “mess on the streets”.
George, Ben’s father, reveals that there are 18 courts at the Old Baileys and while Ben’s case was on hearing, 17 of them were conducting trials related to knife crimes.
Another person, who can’t be named, has been on jury service for three weeks for yet another horrifying murder involving a teenage drug dealer killing a cocaine addict with a huge knife. This case is a classic story of Broken Britain, all the worse because it further confirms that knife culture is all around and not confined just to cities.
The killer was a drug dealer who had an argument with a cocaine addict to whom he sold drugs. The dealer was planted by his bosses in the ordinary streets of a quiet country town. He started selling drugs on the streets of a hosing estate and befriended local lads keen to copy his ‘gangsta’ style and lingo.
The lads knew him just like kids know about the timings of the ice cream. He would take orders on mobile phone and then deliver them as scheduled. So if the kids knew of the ‘ice cream van’, then didn’t the parents know about this?
He would deal in an alley by a junior school to avoid police suspicion. How is it that the local lads all know where to get the drugs but the police which is well equipped and designed to root out these incidents don’t get the slightest idea of what is going on?
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