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3:26pm Saturday 20th September 2008
Police are hunting for two men in Croydon after a sickening assault in which one man had his head repeatedly “smashed against a wall”.
The victim was rushed to hospital by a member of the public following the incident near the Whitgift Centre at 2.30pm today. His injuries are not thought to be life threatening. One eyewitness said the attack was particularly brutal. “There were two guys bashing another guy’s head against the wall and then they ran away. It makes me feel sick thinking about it,” she said.
Another eyewitness said police had cordoned off the area.
“There is a lot of blood and people are crowding round to have a look, but police have sealed it off,” he said.
A police spokesman said they were looking for two black men in connection with the incident.
“We were called to reports of fighting about 2.30pm,” he said. “Three black men were involved and two men were seen running the scene.
“It appears that a member of the public took the injured male to hospital.
“One of the attackers was wearing a green hat and black shirt, the other had a gray top and trousers.”
Anyone with information should call Crimestopers on 0800 555 111.
ANNE GILES, SELSDON says...
6:32pm Sat 20 Sep 08
Touran, London says...
10:02am Sun 21 Sep 08
ANNE GILES, SELSDON says...
1:03pm Sun 21 Sep 08
Touran, London says...
1:36pm Sun 21 Sep 08
ANNE GILES, SELSDON says...
4:04pm Sun 21 Sep 08
Touran, London says...
4:16pm Sun 21 Sep 08
ANNE GILES, SELSDON says...
4:33pm Sun 21 Sep 08
Touran, London says...
4:53pm Sun 21 Sep 08
Remember the Alamo, San Antonio says...
6:17pm Sun 21 Sep 08
ANNE GILES wrote:Too many guns in the US? This is on your front page of the BBC news. "A businessman died and his wife was left with gunshot wounds after a double shooting at their Cornwall home. "
No - it is not. I am quite happy to go to the Whitgift Centre on a Saturday afternoon. I was there last Saturday and the atmosphere was extremely good. I returned there on Sunday and it was fine.We had a great time. I met a friend for a drink in the Cafe Giardino on Thursday lunchtime and again had a good time. Crime happens everywhere - it is a fact of life. I travel to various countries and witness it quite often. In Miami in 1990 when we were there, there were six murders a day. That was one thing I never liked about the USA - too many people with guns. I feel a lot safer here.
ANNE GILES, SELSDON says...
6:21pm Sun 21 Sep 08
Remember the Alamo, San Antonio says...
6:56pm Sun 21 Sep 08
ANNE GILES wrote:I think that Touran person "hit the nail on the head" when he questioned the intelligence of your responses. Your feeble attempt to imitate our speach pattern is worse the what Dick Van Dyke did to the Cockneys.
Well, bless my cotton socks and glory, Hallelujah! Pronto - saddle me my horse and get me down to the old corral. Quick now!
Remember the Alamo, San Antonio says...
7:17pm Sun 21 Sep 08
Touran wrote:Im not sure your friend "anne" is living in the same reality as the rest of us. I was in Croydon the week of Easter this year. I was staying at the Travelodge. All week I hear sirens. Saturday night/Easter moring, I heard/saw police and ambulances running all night long. I admit that I had no problems myself, the 5 times I have been there and up through Streatham, but I am/look like someone who will defend himself. This is apparently a trait that "anne" finds amusing. It must have been the cowboy hat/boots and accent that "anne" did such a sorry job of mocking. But clearly it worked.
What a ridiculous defensive statment you make.Everytime something negative is reported about Croydon you start harrasing people on here who make a comment about it.My view is different to your view, that doesn't make you right and me wrong.I cant be bothered dealing with ecentric octogenarians.
ANNE GILES, SELSDON says...
9:08pm Sun 21 Sep 08
Remember the Alamo, San Antonio says...
9:29pm Sun 21 Sep 08
Touran, London says...
9:55pm Sun 21 Sep 08
ANNE GILES, SELSDON says...
9:01am Mon 22 Sep 08
plecko, croydon says...
9:22am Mon 22 Sep 08
Touran, London says...
9:48am Mon 22 Sep 08
Bob Peel, Croydon says...
10:03am Mon 22 Sep 08
ANNE GILES, SELSDON says...
11:33am Mon 22 Sep 08
Bob Peel, Croydon says...
12:08pm Mon 22 Sep 08
Remember the Alamo, San Antonio says...
12:41pm Mon 22 Sep 08
Bob Peel wrote:Seen as how "anne" brought up America in her first comment, she invited a response. Therefore, you can take your comment and your offical keyboard and insert them in the appropriate orifice. I seem to recall putting you in your place several times in the past. I guess you still havent learned your lesson.
OFFICIAL! From the keyboard of Bob Peel:Croydon is a total sh*t heap any time of day.As for 'Remember the Alamo' if we want an American bent we'll ask for it; until then - button it.
ANNE GILES, SELSDON says...
12:49pm Mon 22 Sep 08
Bob Peel, Croydon says...
2:09pm Mon 22 Sep 08
reality-bites, London says...
2:10pm Mon 22 Sep 08
ANNE GILES, SELSDON says...
3:29pm Mon 22 Sep 08
NastyMrTom, Croydon says...
5:17pm Mon 22 Sep 08
Remember the Alamo wrote:The amount of sirens heard during your weeks stay in Croydon is hardly basis for informed comment.
Touran wrote:What a ridiculous defensive statment you make.Everytime something negative is reported about Croydon you start harrasing people on here who make a comment about it.My view is different to your view, that doesn't make you right and me wrong.I cant be bothered dealing with ecentric octogenarians.Im not sure your friend "anne" is living in the same reality as the rest of us. I was in Croydon the week of Easter this year. I was staying at the Travelodge. All week I hear sirens. Saturday night/Easter moring, I heard/saw police and ambulances running all night long. I admit that I had no problems myself, the 5 times I have been there and up through Streatham, but I am/look like someone who will defend himself. This is apparently a trait that "anne" finds amusing. It must have been the cowboy hat/boots and accent that "anne" did such a sorry job of mocking. But clearly it worked.
NastyMrTom, Croydon says...
6:37pm Mon 22 Sep 08
reality-bites wrote:According to the British Crime Survey (BCS), overall violent crime has decreased by 41% since a peak in 1995
As we should all deal with Facts and not listen to Anne. Knife crime in Croydon Has risen along with assaults. Year on year it rises, with the odd blip. Over the last 25 years though, knife crime has risen a staggering 80% - and even Anne could not make appeasing groveling excuses for that!Anne likes to defend the police and and i agree with her. They are at the sharp end of a weak justice system - I mean 10-12 years (average) for murder now is shocking, and that leniency trickles down from there.Society is crumbling with the help of government, media and P.C.Strangely, crime, chavvy - confrontational behavior has been on the rise since Eastenders was first broadcast. bad behavior is a learned thing.Can a programme that shows good people struggle and bad people successful but all always arguing and never happy be good for our kids? Shameless, big bro, skins, booze britain - they are what our kids watch........I do not even have to mention the drugs this government lets flood in through a weak border control!ALL CONTRIBUTE TO ENGLANDS ATTRITION. Only the naive would call me paranoid.
reality-bites, London says...
9:19pm Mon 22 Sep 08
ANNE GILES, SELSDON says...
10:00pm Mon 22 Sep 08
Remember the Alamo, San Antonio says...
10:40pm Mon 22 Sep 08
NastyMrTom wrote:Actually the sirens comment was in response to anne's shot at NY city and being kept up all night. The Cowboy hat and boots comment was rubbing her nose in her clearly biggoted mindset towards Texans.
Remember the Alamo wrote:Touran wrote:What a ridiculous defensive statment you make.Everytime something negative is reported about Croydon you start harrasing people on here who make a comment about it.My view is different to your view, that doesn't make you right and me wrong.I cant be bothered dealing with ecentric octogenarians.Im not sure your friend "anne" is living in the same reality as the rest of us. I was in Croydon the week of Easter this year. I was staying at the Travelodge. All week I hear sirens. Saturday night/Easter moring, I heard/saw police and ambulances running all night long. I admit that I had no problems myself, the 5 times I have been there and up through Streatham, but I am/look like someone who will defend himself. This is apparently a trait that "anne" finds amusing. It must have been the cowboy hat/boots and accent that "anne" did such a sorry job of mocking. But clearly it worked.The amount of sirens heard during your weeks stay in Croydon is hardly basis for informed comment. Are you joking about wearing cowboy hat and boots as a sign that you're capable of defending yourself ... ... I really hope not , hillarious stuff !!!
ANNE GILES, SELSDON says...
10:13am Tue 23 Sep 08
Remember the Alamo, San Antonio says...
12:09pm Tue 23 Sep 08
ANNE GILES wrote:I think the only "picking" your qualified to do is your nose.
I'm just goin' to mosey along the old trail to do some cotton pickin'.
Remember the Alamo, San Antonio says...
12:12pm Tue 23 Sep 08
Bob Peel wrote:Your convenient lack of memory is no concern to me.
Remember the AlamoIt would take more than some pitiful 'wannabee a septic' like you to put me anywhere near 'my place.'Fortunately for you your claims are all delusional.
pengi-wengi, Wallington says...
12:26pm Tue 23 Sep 08
ANNE GILES, SELSDON says...
12:47pm Tue 23 Sep 08
reality-bites, London says...
1:14pm Tue 23 Sep 08
pengi-wengi, Wallington says...
2:20pm Tue 23 Sep 08
NastyMrTom, Croydon says...
2:59pm Tue 23 Sep 08
reality-bites wrote:
Tom and Anne - you must have missed that i wrote 25 years not ten or last year, you may be appologists, but you really must read more carefully - a quick glance through the archives and you will find that not one person was stabbed to death in Croydon in 1983 - nor 1982(unless you can find otherwise) for that matter -yes 25 years ago! now work the percentages out!Keep you heads in the sand if you like but the rest of us see things as they are.One murder is too much, making excuses just offends the poor victims and witholds blame from where it should be aimed.
NastyMrTom, Croydon says...
3:04pm Tue 23 Sep 08
NastyMrTom, Croydon says...
3:10pm Tue 23 Sep 08
ANNE GILES wrote:Are these comments funny Anne ?
I'm just goin' to mosey along the old trail to do some cotton pickin'.
ANNE GILES, SELSDON says...
3:47pm Tue 23 Sep 08
reality-bites, London says...
9:19pm Tue 23 Sep 08
Remember the Alamo, San Antonio says...
11:32pm Tue 23 Sep 08
NastyMrTom wrote:Dont worry about it partner...she isnt really bothering me...I find it funny because it is so ignorant, and I have yet to ever met a fellow Texan that could be made to think less about himself because he is a Texan. It just doesnt happen. I do find it disturbing that she claims to be an educator. With all the different races yall have over there, I can only imagine what she says/teaches others about them.
ANNE GILES wrote:I'm just goin' to mosey along the old trail to do some cotton pickin'.Are these comments funny Anne ? Belittling someone by using racial stereotypes isn't the most informed of responses
ANNE GILES, SELSDON says...
10:31am Wed 24 Sep 08
ohdearyme, Hinchley Wood says...
11:13am Wed 24 Sep 08
ANNE GILES wrote:Did you want me for something?
Oh, deary, deary, me. Deary, deary, deary me. Deary, deary me. Gosh - it's raining. I am now going to become suitably depressed because the sun isn't shining. I shall blame Croydon.
ANNE GILES, SELSDON says...
1:11pm Wed 24 Sep 08
NastyMrTom, Croydon says...
2:08pm Wed 24 Sep 08
reality-bites wrote:
Anne, don't you mean oh dreary dreary me! And Tom, the times online archive is excellent as is BBC archives and births and deaths. no mention in any of a Croydon knife murder in 1983!Another one for you to research, if capable:How many murders in England in 1979 and how many in 2007?Another shocking stat for you make P.C. excuses for!
ANNE GILES, SELSDON says...
2:39pm Wed 24 Sep 08
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Touran, London says...
5:15pm Sat 20 Sep 08