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Last updated on August 9th, 2017 at 05:00 am
The things you’ve got to do to get arrested in Sydney:
A magistrate has grilled police about why they released two men allegedly involved in a reprisal attack immediately after the Cronulla Beach riot, in which a “hapless victim” was left with a fractured eye socket after being set upon by a carload of men.
Mohammed Eid, 19, and Wael Tahan, 20, were on bail for other offences at the time of the alleged attack. They were detained by police in the early hours of December 12, but were released after having their clothes taken for forensic examination and being interviewed.
They. Were. Released. And what were the alleged circumstances which initially caused police to detain them?
Both men, along with two others still being sought by police, are accused of an attack on a Blakehurst man in Hume Road, Cronulla. A police report alleges the pair stabbed the victim and bashed him around the head with a block of concrete, before stomping on his head and body.
This is bewildering, and not just to us reading about it:
The magistrate refused bail, saying he was “bewildered” by the decision not to charge them at the time. He said he would have refused them bail then.
Hilarious line from Eid’s lawyer, who claims the arrests have since taken place because ethnic crime is “a political hot potato”. Which more likely explains why the pair weren’t arrested in the first place.
- The police were trying to arrest the real culprit… the heat.Posted by Ahriman on 2006 01 26 at 05:27 AM • permalink
- Give the attackers a life sentence of pig farming in the outback with no bikinis to disturb them.Posted by perfectsense on 2006 01 26 at 05:53 AM • permalink
- #2 – There’s no pig farming in the outback but plenty of feral pigs. Big, black, mean bastards with long, razor-sharp tusks. Our Lebo friends reckons they’re so tough – send ‘em out to clean up the ferals armed with a hunting knife. I’d given them two minutes.
PS – Last I heard feral pigs are usually hunted with a 12-bore with a solid slug.
Posted by walterplinge on 2006 01 26 at 06:00 AM • permalink
- #3 and they’re much more ferocious than evenRazorback would indicate…
—Nora
Yes Walt, 12 bore solid shot is preferred for adults usually at a particular spot at the front of the skull. However, I once dropped a younger example with a side lung shot on the run with a .22 and if you suspect I’m skiting, you’re right…
—Nick
::flickers eyelashing adoringly::
My hero.
—Nora
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2006 01 26 at 06:26 AM • permalink
- LOL Nick and Nora.
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1/ You know they didn’t start it. They are victims.
2/ Hilarious? I think it’s tragic that the legal representatives think that they can defend the indefensible. Maybe it’s another cultural thingy, you know, honour and so on. Belt the shit out of someone who you think has tarnished your honour. Or said not nice words to you. Or who was just standing there, scared. Gutless wonders.
Whatever.
- LA 1993
Henry Watson held Denny’s head down with his foot. Denny was kicked in the stomach. Another man hurled a five-pound piece of medical equipment at Denny’s head and hit him three times with a claw hammer. A man named Damian Monroe Williams then threw a slab of concrete at Denny’s head and knocked him unconscious. His skull was fractured in ninety-one places.
The jury arrived at a verdict of not guilty for all charges except a felony count of simple mayhem and one misdemeanor assault charge for Williams and one misdemeanor assault for Watson. This was captured on video tape
Sydney 2006
A police report alleges the pair stabbed the victim and bashed him around the head with a block of concrete, before stomping on his head and body. The victim was left with a fractured eye socket .
The important thing to note here is that the sort of people that are willing to stab, beat and hurl blunt force objects at a person are typically hardened criminals who have engaged in this sort of behavior before. I hope you guys handle this better than we did in 1993.
- Has anyone else noticed that out of the people arrested in the aftermath of Cronulla, the MOMEA invariably have previous criminal records …. the flag burning fella (drugs, larceny), the big lebbo bloke hailed as a hero by Trad (long criminal record according to SMH) now these tossers who were out on bail for other offences at the time of the attack. In contrast, according to the media reports I have read, the anglo youths arrested have had no prior convictions (despite which they are still refused bail), hmmmm.
- Part of the reason you start to see vigilantes is that the police aren’t doing their damn job.
Their cowardice and/or incompetence does not portend a happy future – they are setting the stage for an escalation of violence and vendetta.
Any chance for an Australian version of the 2nd Amendment? It has its costs, but tends to make the criminal element more circumspect, and the public more confident, I think.
- A MAGISTRATE has grilled police about why they released two men allegedly involved in a reprisal attack immediately after the Cronulla Beach riot, in which a “hapless victim” was left with a fractured eye socket after being set upon by a carload of men.
Also of interest is how the Cronulla victim was stabbed but the SMH lists a fractured eye socket as the only injury. Maybe i’m reading that wrong but it tends to leave the impression that the victim wasn’t beaten that badly. The author(s) of the article are attempting to marginalize the victims injuries.
- Joy. I hope this pair of thugs are slammed.Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 01 26 at 10:44 AM • permalink
- #‘s 2, 3, & 4
Some “redneck” proto-hippies from Georgia have bulldozed an entire valley in our island’s secondary upland forest for the noblepurpose of creating an organic ‘teaching’ farm. Needless to say, the area’s numerous feral hogs weren’t their best friends.
These delightfully evil-hearted southern hippies ended up hunting the tasty beasts to near extinction with machetes, an assortment of homemade spears, and a rather inexpertly wielded bow. Great fun.
The resulting months of weekly rain forest stomping techno parties – fueled by brownies, roast pork, and passion fruit wine – were pretty damn epic.
Anyway, despite their tendency for Chavez-fellating rhetoric, this motley crew of saronged forest dwellers (they’ve even got a live-in treehouse next to the community center made of locally felled hard woods) are hands down, my all time favorite hippies. They’ve managed to creat a little simulacrum of Goa, only Caribbean style, complete with imperialist profit motives, weapons, and roasted meat.
Next on the feral menu are a couple hundred head of
wildfree-range cattle that are wandering around feasting on organic seedlings…After a necessary weapons upgrade of course.They might even need guns.
- So what did the cops have to say to the judge’s question…?Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 01 26 at 11:21 AM • permalink
- The head of the Police Strike Force investigating the Leb revenge attacks is intending to hand Police video evidence to the slimy Mr.Trad to distribute among young Muslims.This at least will enable any that can be clearly identified from the tapes to be on the first available aircraft to Beirut thus saving the Police the embarrasment that would result from having to prosecute any of this protected species.No doubt Mr.Iemma will be suitable grateful and contract renewals and promotions will guaranteed.
- My bet is on simple, entrenched NSW police corruption, the first rule of which is ‘don’t exert yourself over normal street policing, it only looks bad on your record. The money lies elsewhere’.
The way to get on is to keep your head down by not getting a reputation for making your job difficult or dangerous for your mates.
If you can also show a ‘multicultural bias’ like the London cops do, it won’t hurt you either.
- Another political hot potato appears to be Australia Day -SBS introduced (in plummy tones and with a dazzling smile) their news with “a very warm welcome” and ended with “thank you for watching”.
However the 500 watt “warmth” did not appear to be able to bear,let alone embrace “Happy Australia Day”-this omission does just reinforce Australians’low opinion or absolute shunning of our “special” broadcaster.
ABC contented itself with recruiting a schoolgirl choir to sing the national anthem——-and placing their on call female impersonator dead centre to croak it all into farce..Said impersonator being the star of an abc series which died at first airing.Just a nasty little slap Aunty which was noted by Australian taxpayers.
p.s.What was the point of making over Maxine 7.30 Report by much airbrushing and hairstyling when she appeared later in the programme interviewing and looking haggish..
Was it to show us where our money goes…
- Pleece Commish in W.A. continues his multculti drive for more muslims and sikhs to join the “service”-apparently there ARE already some muslim officers who (very properly) have NOT requested to wear a special uniform (which he says he WILL introduce)…they obviously have a lot more brains,common sense and nous than HE does.
The public in W.A. voted 94% AGAINST such a move but the Comish is ADAMANT..
- I am hoping our new Premier Alan Carpenter will put his foot down with a firm hand on that stupid idea from the police Commiss. who is generally a fairly sensible type.
The people said a loud “NO!” , so who is he to go against the public wish?
If he gets his way , will we have as someone suggested, nudists apply for the job. And will they be forced to wear… shoes? Maybe regulation cap?Could be real interesting.
- Source today’s Oz….“A former policeman and political adviser has ADMITTED N.S.W. officerss are nervous about arresting Lebanese offenders..
Geoff Schuberg, a former ASSISTANT comissioner and later ADVISER to former police minister Michael Costa, has CONTRADICTED Premier Morris Iemma’s claim THAT HIS GOV WAS NOT SOFT ON MIDDLE EASTERN crime.
Mr S told the Australian that POLICE COMMISIONER MORONEY HAD ALLOWED HIMSELF TO BECOME A POLITICAL PAWN,attending press conferences with Iemma to announce police initiatives to boost the Labor Governmen’t standing…
- #27 cont..
He said he was shocked at the police’s failure to deal with Lebanese gangs,including allowing a large group to organise a “revenge attack” because of a directive not to “antagonise” them.Mr S’s comments support some of the allegations of NSW Opposition leader Peter Debnam,who claims the government has created a “culture” that discourages police from cracking down on ethnic crime….
- #28 cont…Mr S,who spent 34 years in the force and was a former head of internal affairs,was once touted as a future commissioner,being regarded as a strong enforcer of police ethics.
But he was purged from the force by former commisioner Peter Ryan,with whom he fell out over what he saw as a politically driven shift to NON CONFRONTATIONAL policing….Police had become so worried by the prospect of an official complaint or media scrutiny that they were often reluctant to arrest suspects,particularly those of ethnic backgrounds,he said.
He expressed sympathy for police facing Lebanese gangs,which he said had no respect for the law and were particularly vicious.“They swear at them and threaten to harm their families” he said.
“Police softly softly approach had been counter productive and said police culture and training had strayed TOO FAR from traditional “in -your -face”policing.
“You need to be firm, you need to be fair” he said.
Police training involved classes in the social sciences,but junior officers were not being provided with the skills for dealing with REAL situations on the street.
- #16 Indeed, it was John Howard who implemented a set of pre-prepared restrictions against law-abiding gun owners following a massacre in Tasmania by a disturbed gun owner who had already given the authorities plenty of advance warning that he was unhinged. Howard then had the poor judgement to rather obviously wear a flak jacket under his suit when attempting to excuse himself before a rally of angry gun owners, inferring that he believed gun ownership presupposed a tendency to violence. Although Howard has done much to restore my respect for him in recent years, I will never forgive him – or the numerous other ‘conservative’ policitians – who stabbed a large proportion of their constitutency in the back
—NickPosted by The Thin Man Returns on 2006 01 27 at 06:37 AM • permalink
- Geoff Schuberg, a former ASSISTANT comissioner and later ADVISER to former police minister Michael Costa, has CONTRADICTED Premier Morris Iemma’s claim THAT HIS GOV WAS NOT SOFT ON MIDDLE EASTERN crime.
Mr S told the Australian that POLICE COMMISIONER MORONEY HAD ALLOWED HIMSELF TO BECOME A POLITICAL PAWN,attending press conferences with Iemma to announce police initiatives to boost the Labor Governmen’t standing….Gawdammit, do you HAVE to WRITE like a stereotypical USENET KOOK? It really makes your posts a pain to go through, as interesting as they may be.
- #31. CAPS are much cheaper than bold.Posted by Dean McAskil on 2006 01 27 at 10:17 AM • permalink
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