The dead lad allegedly stole a bicycle. It sounds like a 'punishment' gone wrong. This doesn't mitigate the crime in any way, but it presumably comes back to the fact that the police do not follow up on 'minor' crimes. Note the level of recorded crime has dropped massively recently, not I suspect because crimes are not being committed, but because people are looking at their own alternatives for resolving the matters.
I reported an incident 2 weeks ago and am still waiting for the police to interview me. I actually went to a police station and was not dealt with by a policeman, but a civilian desk minder pointed me to a 'phone in the reception. I picked it up and got through to a centralised crime recording service. The lady had never even heard of the town I live in and had to look on some electronic database to see if she could identify the street in question.
The lads who committed the killing would have had no hope whatsoever of recovering the bicycle had they relied on the police. Theft of people's hard earned money and possessions is low on the list of priorities. The lad who was killed is off white (Lord alone knows what words you are supposed to use to describe people these days) which would, had the crime been reported, have made it harder for the police to act. It might be that the killers are black as well, but the rights of the accused greatly exceed the rights of victims.
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