I live just down the road from where Kamel Bourgass murdered the police officer a couple of years back. Now that he’s been convicted, I must say that people here in Crumpsall seem remarkably indifferent to the Terror King Found In Their Midst. A little sturdy indifference is probably the best policy in the face of official incompetence.
Let’s see. A man with four aliases, whose identity hasn’t actually been properly confirmed, deals with the state fairly extensively as an asylum seeker, then gets nicked for shoplifting. He then vanishes and is discovered by surprise when the cops go looking for a different person altogether. Since that person wasn’t apparently considered dangerous, the cops weren’t armed or even, it seems, wearing the stab vests with which they usually go on routine patrol. Charlie the safety elephant has the solution:
Mr Clarke said the case highlighted the need for identity cards, along with stronger borders to deal with migration issues.
Well naturally. Giving someone the opportunity to operate under an officially confirmed alias would have made it so much easier to identify him. This is starting to amount to blackmail, effectively. We won’t protect you unless you give us what we want. Reward our incompetence with more power, or else.
Update: The Register takes Charlie into a basement with his ID cards and does terrible things to him.
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