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New arrests in Stephen Lawrence case breaking news

casualsunited — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:18:47 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=37w7fzTuFyA

Youve been Suzy’d

YET more harassment of football fans what the hell has this guy done? Wheres the video?

casualsunited — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 21:42:02 +0000

Hate crime police probe ‘gesture’ at Liverpool-

Manchester tie

Police have released a picture of a man they would like to speak to

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Blackburn vicious racial attack on pregnant woman

casualsunited — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:39:01 +0000

Three jailed for Blackburn bowling alley brawl

1:08pm Friday 27th January 2012 in

By Sam Chadderton »Reporter

THREE men who started a brawl in a bowling alley before fleeing in a Lamborghini and a Rolls Royce have been jailed.

A pregnant woman was kicked in the stomach, her friend glassed and Good Samaritans were attacked as they tried to intervene.

Hassan Waqqar Malik, 26, from Pringle Street, Blackburn, Mohammed Danish Junaid, 22, of Taylor Street, Brierfield, and Shabaz Nawaz, 27, of Edith Street, Blackburn, are today beginning combined jail sentences of almost six years for violent disorder.

‘WILD ANIMAL’ Hassan Malik

Malik was also convicted of wounding 20-year-old Liam Aspin.

On December 12, 2010, the three men were at the Vue Cinema and Bowlplex complex in Blackburn when one of them approached Mr Aspin’s girlfriend Rebecca Maher, 18, and her pregnant friend Danielle Hulme, 20.

Mr Aspin was then shoved, kicked and punched.

Anthony Walsh, 42, and his partner Sharon McDermott, 43, who were also in the bar area, intervened, but the gang turned on them.

Mr Aspin was then glassed in the head leaving shards of pint glass embedded in his head.

In the melee, Miss Hulme was kicked in the stomach as the men, ‘acting like a pack of wild animals’ according to witnesses, used pool cues in the fight.

They then fled in a Lamborghini and Rolls Royce which police traced during their inquiries.

They had been hired for the men to attend a wedding.

At Preston Crown Court on Thursday, Malik was given four years six months.

Junaid was jailed for 36 weeks and Nawaz was sentenced to one year and two weeks imprisonment.

DC Steve Russell said: “This was a violent and unprovoked attack on a group of innocent people and it was lucky no one was seriously injured.

“Members of the public have the right to go out and enjoy themselves without being subjected to extreme violence and I hope these sentences act as warning to anyone who thinks serious violent crime is acceptable that it won’t be tolerated.

“I would like to reassure the people of Blackburn that incidents of this nature are very rare but where they do happen, we will carry out robust and thorough investigations to identify those responsible and bring them to justice.”

UAF and various Councillors show that they are willing to defend Paedophiles

casualsunited — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:50:32 +0000

Antifascists in Liverpool, backed by local councillors and trade unionists, have launched a statement against the fascist British National Party and the English Defence League.

The two organisations are seeking to exploit a serious court case to stir up racism and division. Local people are determined to show a unified community response to the BNP and EDL.

The problems in our society will not be solved by fascists and racists.

Statement: BNP and EDL not welcome in Liverpool

The British National Party and English Defence League have announced their intention to hold a protest at Liverpool Crown Court on Monday 6 February. They are exploiting a case of 11 Asian men from Rochdale who have been charged with child exploitation and sex offences, to bring their racist message to the streets of Liverpool.

We believe that this case is a matter for the police and courts. Furthermore, the BNP and EDL’s cynical exploitation of the case for its own ends, does nothing to help the suffering of victims of such abuse.

If the men involved were not Asian then it is clear that this protest would not be taking place. We believe that the BNP and EDL are using this case to attempt to whip up racism and foster division.

We call on everyone to join a dignified counter-protest at Liverpool Crown Courts. Let the racists and fascists of the EDL and BNP know that they are not welcome here.

8.30am Monday 6 February
Liverpool Crown Court
Derby Square
Liverpool L2 1XA

Signatories

Cllr Joe Anderson – Leader of Liverpool City Council
Cllr Louise Baldock – chair of equality and diversity, Liverpool City Council
Merseyside Unite Against Fascism
Liverpool Trade Union Council
Liverpool University UCU branch
Donna Davies, Unite regional officer (personal capacity)
Ian Seddon, secretary, Unite Merseyside Finance branch (personal capacity)
Merseyside Love Music Hate Racism

Paedophilia is thriving in London among “certain” communities – thank you Multiculturalism (“Taxi”)

casualsunited — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:29:08 +0000

Islington girls forced into marriage at the age of nine

TRIBUNE INVESTIGATION: Imam condemns ordeal of youngsters still in primary school amid alarming number of abuse cases

Published: January 27, 2012
by PAVAN AMARA

AN alarming number of under-age girls – some as young as nine – are being forced into marriage in Islington, according to a leading campaign group.

The Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation (IKWRO) claim that at least 30 girls in the borough were forced into marriage in 2010.

The practice was condemned by the Imam of Finsbury Park Mosque, who said such marriages were against Islam and “unacceptable”.

He pledged to invalidate any marriage which he said were carried out by “back-street Imams”.

IKWRO, which made headlines last month when they revealed there had been almost 3,000 “honour-based” violence cases in 2010, has shown the Tribune records which revealed at least three 11-year-old girls and two nine-year-olds had been forced into marriage with older men within Islington. The oldest girls involved were 16.

They have warned that hundreds of Islington girls could be suffering sexual, emotional and physical scars as a result of the child marriages every year and are calling for teachers, social workers and police to be better trained to spot and manage the abuse.

Information from the Ministry of Justice, following a Freedom of Information request, revealed that 32 Forced Marriage Protection Order applications were made for children under 16 in Britain last year.

Six of these were made for under-16s within Islington at the Royal Courts of Justice, although these were not necessarily made for Islington residents.

At the Islington court, “five or fewer” orders were made to protect children between the ages of 9-11.

The orders are a form of injunction that threaten legal punishment if marriage takes place due to emotional or physical force.

In most cases, the children fear they will be killed if they reveal the truth to anybody, while others believe they will be separated from their families and taken into social services’ care.

Dianna Nammi, director of IKWRO, explained that the girls are married in a mosque’s sharia court. This means they are not legally married according to British law, rendering the Home Office unable to recognise or prove the abuse.

“They are still expected to carry out their wifely duties, though, and that includes sleeping with their husband,” she said.

“They have to cook for them, wash their clothes, everything. They are still attending schools in Islington, struggling to do their primary school homework, and at the same time being practically raped by a middle-aged man regularly and being abused by their families. So they are a wife, but in a primary school uniform.

“The reason it doesn’t get out is because they are too terrified to speak out, and also the control their families have over them is impossible to imagine if you’re not going through it. The way it is covered up is so precise, almost unspeakable.”

Ms Nammi said that one 13-year-old had to sneak out of a maths lesson to contact the group, because she was being monitored so closely by her family.

“Her teacher didn’t notice because she said she’d gone to the toilet, but when she got home that day she was beaten,” she said.

“Her father knew she hadn’t been in maths because he had sent an uncle to spy on who she was talking to through the classroom window.”

Ms Nammi said that the girls are married off to family friends or family members to stop them from losing their virginity to anyone not chosen by their father.

However, the incentive is also often financial.

“The girl automatically becomes her husband’s property, so he takes financial responsibility for her,” said Ms Nammi.

“In fact, often the husband has to start contributing to the girl’s family, so it becomes a way of bringing in another salary.

“Who are girls going to tell? Often they feel like teachers at school won’t understand what their families are like. They will think they’re like Western families, and won’t understand that if they pass on anything at all that they’ve been told to the family, then the girl will be killed. So they just chose not to tell at all.”

IKWRO offers counselling and support to the children, but does not force them to take any action until they are ready. Often, that involves being placed in social services’ care.

Finsbury Park Mosque imam Ahmed Saad said he was glad the issue was being highlighted, and stressed that it was not an Islamic problem, but a cultural one.

“This is down to ignorance, and ignorant people who will use any excuse they can to do this to their children,” he said.

“It is the practice in their home countries and they don’t want to stop that here, so they will say it’s in the Koran, when it is not. According to Islam, it is entirely unacceptable.

“My own grandmother was married at the age of 11, but that was in 1907 in Egypt when lifespans were much shorter.

“I have heard of this happening in Islington by back-street imams. They are imams who have little knowledge of Islam – they are not educated, and they simply lead prayers, and yes they will do this and it is very quietly kept a secret with no one admitting to it.

“Islam says both parties must truly consent in their hearts, and if the girl was forced into it in any way then she can invalidate her Sharia marriage with or without the husband’s permission.

“I will personally do that for anyone who comes to me. This is simply child abuse, as a child does not know what they are doing.

“My heart goes out to the girls.”

Imam Saad explained that Sharia law stated an individual can marry when they begin puberty, with the most important stipulation being that they are “rushd”, or mature enough to understand marriage.

A spokesman for the Forced Marriage Unit (FMU) said he was “unsure” whether the lack of legal status of the marriages affected whether the they could intervene or not, but directed the Tribune to government practice guidelines on dealing with forced marriage.

The spokesman added that due to the lack of legal status the marriages may be a “criminal matter that only the police can deal with”, but admitted to it being “”a very grey area”.

The FMU guidelines state: “It is probable that children’s social care will play a key role in protecting the interests of the child or young person. This can be achieved not only by arranging practical help such as accommodation and financial support, but also by co-operating and working with other agencies such as police, health and education professionals.”

Sibel Balci-Saner, a Turkish and Farsi speaking adviser at IKWRO, said while that the Islington Police’s domestic violence co-ordinators were “brilliant” at dealing with the cases, front-line officers “can make things worse by not being sensitive because they don’t really understand what’s going on”.

“When they try and speak to the child’s parents they often have a language barrier,” she said.

“Too often they don’t bother to call an interpreter so they don’t talk to the parents at all about what they’re doing, until it goes to court much later. A common complaint we have is that it depends on who you are, too – some women say that when they’re from poorer families the police don’t take them as seriously.”

Bride at 12 – ‘I have to be a wife to him…’

ROJIN – this is not her real name – told a Tribune reporter how she had been forcibly married at the age of 12 to a 32 year-old man. She said she grew up in Finsbury Park where she lived with her parents from the Middle East.

After her “marriage” she said she was placed in care and then allowed to live with friends.

“I was forced by my dad,” she said. “He didn’t beat me or anything, he told me I was useless, no one would ever accept me anyway so I’d better just marry while someone wanted me because it wouldn’t happen again.

“I thought that if I didn’t do it I would just be taken away and married anyway, so it was better to co-operate and at least get to stay in England.

“Also, if I co-operated then if my husband treated me badly at least my family would support me against him. But if I said no, they’d say I was bringing shame on the family and wouldn’t support me no matter what he did, because I would have made them angry.

“My parents sorted out an imam to marry us quite quickly. The first one they approached said no, the next one said yes, and this was in Islington. I met my husband three days before my wedding, which only my close family was invited to.

“We were married in my parents’ house.

“He was a 37-year-old man from Birmingham [the Tribune understands he had come from the Middle East]. I told my parents that I had fallen in love with him and I was doing it for myself because my mum felt bad about what they were doing to me. That night I had to go to his flat and sleep with him because that’s what marriage is.

“But I didn’t want to. After that I told my husband I didn’t want to look at him or talk to him. I didn’t want him sitting next to me, standing next to me, nothing. He got frustrated and said that I had to sleep with him because I was his wife, but I said if he forced himself on me then I would call the police and tell them everything.

“After my mum died I was taken into care. I told my social worker about everything, but I missed out the bit about sleeping with him.

“Social services have no understanding of Islam, and they don’t know that for me, as a Muslim, I am still his wife because we were married by an imam and we have not divorced. So I still text him and want to go to see him because I have to as a wife.

“This is more of a marriage to me than a legal one because it’s by Allah. In my mind I know I have to still be a wife to him till he finally divorces me or I feel something bad will happen to me, or my mum, who is now dead, will have shame on her name.

“He refuses to divorce me, though. Friends have said they’d be happy to come with me to the mosque for a divorce to say yes to it.

“I live with friends so I don’t have to sleep with him, cook for him, nothing like that. He can’t beat me, and no one can kill me here, but I am trapped as his wife.

“Even when I am an adult and leave, I’ll have to go back to him as his wife until one day he finally grants me a divorce.”

The Tribune has been unable to authenticate what this girl told us.
We have seen a record kept by the Women’s Rights body (IKWRO) stating she had been placed in care but there did not appear to be independent evidence that this had taken place.
We stress this is the story of a 12-year-old girl as told to this newspaper.

Thttp://www.islingtontribune.com/news/2012/jan/islington-girls-forced-marriage-age-nine

Freedom of Information request reply regarding Leicestershire hospitals

casualsunited — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:52:24 +0000

Regarding Translators being needed for patients

How many times were translators needed in your hospitals during 2010?

I am advised that the Trust does not hold this information, as individual incidences of usage were previously reported through a number of different service suppliers with no central database maintained within UHL.

- How many times were translators needed in your hospitals during 2011?

A total of 5911 interpreters have been used in the 2011 calendar year.

- How much did your hospitals spend on translating costs in 2010?

I am advised that costs are not held for the 2010 calendar year, for the reasons outlined in response to your first query. For the financial year 1 April 2010 – 31 March 2011 interpreting costs were £327,690.

- How much did your hospitals spend on translating costs in 2011?

I am advised that interpreting costs for the 2011 calendar year were £274,006. Interpreting costs for the 2011-12 financial year starting 1 April 2011 to date are £212,544.

Bargain (not) This would pay for another hospital. If you go into a hospital and you cant speak English pay for your own interpreter or take the trouble to learn the lingo. Why do we have to pay?

No wonder the paedophiles get away with it when so many police officers are at it

casualsunited — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:06:01 +0000

A POLICE community support officer (PCSO) has been charged with a series of sex assaults on children.

Humberside Police PCSO Gary Hastings, 48, who works with Immingham Neighbourhood Policing team, has been suspended from the force while the court case proceeds.

ACCUSATIONS: PCSO Gary Hastings has been charged with a series of sex assaults on children.

He has been charged with seven counts of sexual activity with a child and two counts of causing or inciting child prostitution or pornography, contrary to the Sexual Offences Act 2003.

The offences are alleged to have taken place between November 2007 and August 2010.

A spokeswoman for Humberside Police confirmed Hastings has been suspended from his duties since August.

Hastings has appeared at York Crown Court and the case has been adjourned until March.

He has not entered any pleas to the charges.

Guidance issued by the Sentencing Guidelines Council says the maximum sentence for causing or inciting child prostitution or pornography is life imprisonment.

A conviction for sexual activity with a child can attract a prison sentence of up to 14 years.

The force spokeswoman said they could not comment further while court proceedings are ongoing.

Hastings, who lives in Hull, joined the force in June 2008.

As part of his role, Hastings helped organise an annual event providing people with safety advice.

PCSOs are usually full-time paid police staff.

They do not hold the same powers and responsibilities as fully fledged officers, but they do have the ability to issue fixed penalty notices, confiscate alcohol or tobacco, demand the name and address of a person acting in an antisocial manner, enter a property to save a life or prevent damage and remove abandoned vehicles.

PCSOs tend to carry out frontline policing, patrolling a beat and helping the police at crime scenes and major events.

http://www.thisisgrimsby.co.uk/PCSO-court-child-sex-assaults/story-15052400-detail/story.html

Bolton Jihadi jailed

casualsunited — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:32:05 +0000

Asim Kausar jailed over ricin recipe

Asim Kausar pleaded guilty to four charges under the Terrorism Act

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This moron thought he was going to get away with emailing a bomb threat to MI5 – EPIC FAIL

casualsunited — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:09:02 +0000

A hoaxer who emailed MI5 to claim he had planted a bomb at Ozzy Osbourne’s old junior school in Birmingham has been warned by a court to expect a substantial prison sentence.

Birmingham Magistrates heard that Ghulam Kibria was hunted down by anti-terrorism officers after informing the security services that a bomb had been hidden in rock star Osbourne’s former junior school in Aston.

The email to MI5, which was read to the court after Kibria pleaded guilty to communicating a bomb hoax, stated: “There is a bomb planted in Prince Albert Junior and Infant School in Aston.

“There is nothing you can do – we can strike any time, anywhere.”

Kibria, 33, will be sentenced at Birmingham Crown Court next month after a district judge decided that the six-month maximum sentence available to magistrates was insufficient.

Prosecutor David Devine told the court that Kibria, of Lidget Green, Bradford, sent the email on November 8 last year.

The message, which included the name of Kibria’s ex-wife, was taken as a “clear and immediate threat” by the police, said Mr Devine, and 700 pupils and 110 members of staff and parents were evacuated from Prince Albert School shortly after 2pm.

Kibria’s laptop was then seized by police and a copy of the email was found on the hard drive, Mr Devine added.

Defence solicitor Reyaz Ali told the court that his client suffered from mental health issues and had been accompanied to the court by a social worker.

The defendant was committed for sentence at Crown Court after District Judge Jack McGarva ruled that the maximum six-month sentence available to him was “clearly inadequate” for the offence.

Granting unconditional bail, Judge McGarva told Kibria: “This is a very serious matter. I bear in mind the effect of your actions on teachers at the school, the children of the school – who are aged between three and 11 – and the parents of those children.

“It’s hard to imagine the extent of the damage that you have caused by your actions.”

Nationalist Groups protest at Liverpool Crown Court – Feb 6th 2012

casualsunited — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:58:37 +0000

Nationalist Groups from around the UK will descend on Liverpool Crown Court on February 6th 2012. In which a MUSLIM PAEDOPHILE RING stands trial. Liverpool Antifascists and Occupy Liverpool have released statements and events detailing that they too wish to attend the same demonstration and counter demonstrate against those demonstrating for the safety, innocence and justice for the young girls effected which is a total disregard for your children’s safety.

In what Liverpool’s Matrix squad deem “one of the biggest paedophile rings of recent times, quelled” in which over 40 Muslim Males stand accused, charged or under caution of offences ranging from a variant of conspiracy to engage in sexual activities with minors, sexual exploitation of a minors, sex with minors, soliciting sex of minors and indecent assault on minors. These charges are only the tip of the Iceberg in a case that could prove evident in Nationalist claims that Islamists can not and will not adapt to the law of the land in this Country and they will continue until punished to hurt, manipulate, rape and kill our young. 40% of Prison detainees are Muslim and these two facts should wake a few people up to the dangers these people process to our Country and young.

There has been an unprecedented media black out for this court case. And 11 men start the proceedings and stand trial on the 6th of February 2012 at Liverpool Crown Court. Newspapers have been hit with orders from the Police NOT to report on the proceedings leading up to this sordid case and some have been hit with gagging orders. The Rochdale Observer blew the lid on this case last year and the rest is history.

These men stand accused of horrid charges of taking away the innocence of our children, taking away their childhood and their lives.

The Liverpool Antifascists and other AF groups of such UAF and SOLFED will aim to counter the demonstrations planned by Nationalist groups in defence of the PEADOPHILES that stand charged with these heinous crimes.

This is although not the first time Anti-Facist groups have stood at the side of Muslim Rapists and Killers. The Charlene Downes case is a prime example of what these anti British Communist Traitors stand for and if you’ve never heard of the Charlene Downes case here’s a very brief note. Charlene was a 14 year old girl who went missing in 2003 she was raped, killed and put into Kebabs by Muslim Pizza shop owners in Blackpool and fed to the travelling tourists, although the evidence was mammoth no one has ever seen jail for this and were even given £250,000 for their troubles. Please take a moment to google this horrible horrible case in which the same Anti-Facist groups protected these males and demonstrated against us.

These Anti British Traitors cannot go unchallenged for this and their support and protection of these truly dangerous people.

Were not racist individuals, we have a devotion to the interests or culture of our nation and its people. With the belief that our nation will benefit from acting independently rather than a collective union, emphasising national rather than international goals. We are those who love and defend our country and its people, who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea of nationalism. Our devotion is to the interests or culture of our nation including promoting the interests of one country over those of others. We have nationalist aspirations and minor nationalistic differences.

We will be at Liverpool Crown Court on February 6th 2012 to demonstrate our disgust at the 47 Muslim Paedophiles standing trial as part of one of the biggest paedophile rings discovered in recent times. Where will you be?

February 6th, Liverpool Crown Court.

Jojo