Mixed Memories

[John F Collier]

Lewis when I quoted as a kid was safer than now I was born and grew up in London, I was comparing London then and now, there has always been street gangs in most towns and all cities, the Teds were in the early 50s, the mods and rockers mostly saved their aggro for bank holiday seaside towns as far as
I remember, in the post war years until the late 50s, in England a murder would be headlines, not so today, it's almost accepted as the norm with
people being stabbed in the streets of London etc, personally I think it is every bit as bad as reported in the press, maybe they like to exaggerate to sell
their papers but basically the truth is there, cheers.
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[j.sabourn]

#15 see your point of view John. Today the law has been adjusted to the favour of the guilty. We have here in Australia an ongoing case in WA where a number of years ago a barristers wife disappeared and was found later murdered in bushland . The husband a well known court lawyer was the first suspect and when the police were asked by the media had they any suspects they replied only one the husband. This was made headline news. At the trial the suspect was cleared . He immediately sued the police for 10million dollars for the blackening of his name and received 2.5 million , now a number of years later he has come back and suing again for10 million again. The bad part is he is still the only suspect and appears to most as still guilty. The law in a lot of cases can be misused especially by those who are in that profession. One thing though if have to learn the hard way, never talk to the media . JS.

[John F Collier]

I agree with what you say there Lewis, I remember Dunblane well, who could forget those poor children, that was beyond tragic, these nutters
will always be with us, do you remember Hungerford, I think his name was "Ryan or similar" he killed his mother and went around the town shooting
people at random, he killed many people including a policeman and himself, it may have been before Dunblane, it's a vague memory now, cheers.

[j.sabourn]

#10. Hope you put in a mention about Louis and his hopes for a mention in the Times this New Year Brian. He’s not getting any younger you know .Cheers JS

[j.sabourn]

If the death penalty is not a deterrent then at least it is a cheaper and expedient way of helping climate change by getting rid of the dross in our environment. JS

[happy daze john in oz]

If the nation is not prepared to bring capital punishment back then find a small island, send the murders and others there to fend for them selves, sorted.

But yes Rodders, bloody awful when it rained and every one was looking for a bus shelter to hide from the rain.

But Southend like many such was all the go in the early years after the war, then came cheap overseas holidays, Southend on Sun.
But then the pier burned down and that put a bit of a dampner on it.

As to London, growing up there was great, but now no longer.
In 2017 we were there and heard that for the first six months of the year there had been 90 murders in London, all but 1 with a knife.

[Keith at Tregenna]

If the nation is not prepared to bring capital punishment back then find a small island, send the murders and others there to fend for them selves, sorted.

Think that happened before ?

K.

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#22 John wasn't that how Australia was started??? Sending out here the riff raff the old country didn't want to keep when all the hulks in the Thames were full to bursting?

Just what I wondered. LOL. K.

[j.sabourn]

#22 Naw Victoria , Australia was started by the Martians and there are carvings in various caves to prove this, later they took their helmets off and called themselves Aborigines. JS

[Keith at Tregenna]

Our Queen has granted Southend city status in tribute to Conservative MP Sir David Amess, the veteran politician who led a decades-long campaign for the move for the Essex seaside town.

K.

[j.sabourn]

Well if there is no cathedral there that is breaking traditions of my lifetime. Every city in the UK had to at one time have to have a Cathedral. Now in Australia is slightly different , I was told on arrival that a town had to have a population of 25,000 or was it 20,000 to attain that title. JS...