The UK 2022.
1) A man has needed stitches after he was hit on the head by a 'group of guys' believed to be wearing knuckle dusters while on a night out in Chinatown on the weekend. The victim was attacked at around 3am on Saturday (25 June) in what is believed to be a random attack with "no motive", his friend wrote online.2) Tributes have poured in and flowers have been laid at the site of a Hounslow murder where a 31-year-old man was stabbed to death outside a Wetherspoons in West London in the early hours of the morning, June 25.3) Wimbledon’s first LGBT+ bar could be forced to close early every night after police were called to the venue at least 10 times in just over two months. On one night a bouncer was punched in the face and a man was beaten up outside by a group, while the Met Police are investigating multiple alleged sex attacks.4) Police have released CCTV images of two men they wish to speak to after a 31-year-old man was brutally attacked in broad daylight outside Victoria Coach Station. Kamil Sobala had arrived in London from Poland last week when he was savagely beaten.5) A man was left seriously injured after he and another victim were savagely attacked outside an Underground station in North London and CCTV images have now been released in the hunt for those involved. The two men were walking to the exit at Queensbury station in Barnet at around 12.10am on Sunday, April 17, when they were attacked by another passenger.6) A 31-year-old man who was stabbed to death outside a Wetherspoons in West London over the weekend has been named and pictured for the first time. Karamjeet Singh Reel, from Hounslow, was formally identified by police this morning (Monday, June 27) after he was knifed to death in the early hours of Saturday morning.7) London experienced a violent weekend of bloodshed after three people were stabbed inside a chicken shop and two more killed in brutal attacks. On top of this, an arson investigation has also been opened as a huge fire raged in South London, destroying wasteland and school playing fields.8) Three men have been rushed to hospital after they were stabbed inside an East London chicken shop. They were attacked in Tower Hamlets at the Wingz Chicken Shop, Chrisp Street, just after midnight (June 27). Two of the injured males approached police officers to try and get help for their injuries following the late night stabbing.9) A picture has been released of the man who launched a terrifying attack on an innocent stranger at a Camden casino. Abel Berhany, 23, had rammed a plastic broom handle down Abraham Haile’s throat and had “kicked, stamped or jumped” on his head 99 times during the violent episode on July 28, 2020.10) A woman brutally killed walking home in East London this weekend was murdered by a stranger without weapons, the Met Police. have revealed. Zara Aleena, 36, was left with "multiple serious injuries" near her home in Gants Hill early on Sunday morning (June 26). Paramedics rushed her to hospital with fatal head injuries around 2.45am, but she later died.11) A man extradited from France has been charged with the 2017 murder of a 20-year-old man in a Newham Park who had fled Afghanistan after five members of his family had been shot by the Taliban. Moosakhan Nasiri, 20, was stabbed in front of on-lookers in the park after being approached by a group of five men after playing football in Plashet park.12) A mum and her five-year-old son were found stabbed to death in their North London home yesterday afternoon. The shocking tragedy unfolded at a home in Brookside South in Barnet at around 1.35pm on Tuesday (June 21). 13) A teenage boy has been rushed to hospital in South London after being stabbed outside a bus station yesterday. Emergency services rushed to the scene at Addington Village Bus Station shortly after 5pm on June 21 following reports that a man had been seen with a knife.14) A 22-year-old man has been rushed to hospital in South London after being knifed on a busy street.Emergency services rushed to the scene in Beulah Road in Thornton Heath shortly after 2.30pm this afternoon (June 20) following reports of a stabbing.15) An eyewitness has described the bloody aftermath of an incident in which a man was left fatally bleeding from his head. Ivan Demian, 64, was allegedly knocked out cold after being punched and hit his head on the ground outside Nationwide Building Society on New Malden High Street around 12:05pm on June 1. On Wednesday (June 15) police confirmed his subsequent death, although it's unclear what day he died.16) Police are appealing for information after a teenager was stabbed when protecting his female friends at a pub. The man in his late teens was stabbed in the stomach after telling another group to stop harassing his friends. Police were called at 1:58am on Sunday, April 10, to High Road N22, at the junction with White Hart Lane where they found the man suffering stab injuries.17) A man in his 30s was stabbed outside Vauxhall station in South London yesterday evening (Friday, June 10). The incident, which took place just before 5.52pm, saw the man rushed to hospital.The British Transport Police today (June 11) confirmed the victim of the stabbing remains in hospital in a stable condition. A boy, aged 15, was arrested by Metropolitan Police officers, and remains in custody.A bit long, I know, but welcome to the UK 2022. And this is just the tip of a huge iceberg. What's gone so terribly wrong? The justice system, sentencing guide lines, politics, family life/parents or something else? I wonder how many of you would feel perfectly at ease walking back home from somewhere round about midnight?
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