Pensioner arrested on suspicion of murder after a suspected burglar was stabbed to death.

[GarveyLives]

"A man who was arrested in connection with a failed burglary where an intruder was killed will face no further action ..."

Hither Green burglary: 'Insufficient evidence' to charge man (click for more)

They were not paying attention to this forum?

"Former neighbours of Mr Osborne-Brooks, 78, remain angry at his plight and that no-one was ever charged with the raid on his home in Hither Green, South East London ..."

Richard Osborn-Brooks’ neighbours slam cops for failing to charge accomplice over deadly raid as OAP’s home STILL boarded up eight months on

 

[GarveyLives]

Meanwhile ...

Hither Green OAP ‘receives NEW death threats from traveller gang who want to even the score for dead burglar’

 

[GarveyLives]

Cops step up patrols in Hither Green as locals warn stabbed burglar’s family they will tear down vigil if they lay flowers on first anniversary

 

[Riklet]

Shame they're not being allowed to remember their relative, shit anyone dying and all that, but he does sounds like a nasty bit of work who sealed his own fate the moment he pulled out that screwdriver to threaten serious violence with.

 

[Treacle Toes]

Shame they're not being allowed to remember their relative, shit anyone dying and all that,

They are not being stopped remembering their relative. They just need to do it elsewhere.

 

[andysays]

Shame they're not being allowed to remember their relative, shit anyone dying and all that, but he does sounds like a nasty bit of work who sealed his own fate the moment he pulled out that screwdriver to threaten serious violence with.

They aren't being prevented from remembering though, just from laying flowers near the scene of his death which, given the previous story from Feb 12th, could well be viewed as intimidation.

 

[Riklet]

Ok sure I get that and it's undeniable that some of the family appear to be real shits so that could well be true.

And yeah, I normally support community action in situations like this, clearly people feel theyre doing more than laying a few flowers otherwise there wouldn't be such anger about it, right? Then again, the bloke died in the street, a public space, not that house. Obviously elsewhere would be better though, all things considered.

 

[andysays]

Inquest has decided it was lawful killing

 

[GarveyLives]

This appears to be the most detailed currently available account of the inquest proceedings:

Senior Coroner Andrew Harris rules that Henry Vincent was lawfully killed

 

[Sasaferrato]

Live by the sword, die by the sword.

I take no pleasure whatsoever in the man's death, no matter how much of a scumbag he was, he had relatives and friends who will be mourning his death.

Go armed into someone's house though, and really, you deserve what you get. Had he not entered the house armed with a screwdriver and intending to steal, he would likely have been still alive.

 

[likesfish]

This wasn't a case of the householder going death wish on some scrote this was an old man terrified for his life and the life of his wife.
The dead man at best can be described as a professional criminal.

 

[GarveyLives]

Some better news for the family of the Late Henry Vincent?:

Vincent family sell Hollingbourne farmhouse bought two years ago for £325.000 for £1.5m

 

[Doodler]

Some better news for the family of the Late Henry Vincent?:

Vincent family sell Hollingbourne farmhouse bought two years ago for £325.000 for £1.5m

The Vincents would become the new ruling class after a nuclear war. Other survivors would become their serfs.

 

[existentialist]

The Vincents would become the new ruling class after a nuclear war. Other survivors would become their serfs.

Not for long. They're not clever enough.

 

[Doodler]

Not for long. They're not clever enough.

They would get in there very quickly though. While most other survivors were still in shock the Vincents would be thinking "right then!"

 

[Gromit]

The Vincents would become the new ruling class after a nuclear war. Other survivors would become their serfs.

Nope.

There'd be no pensioners for them to prey on. They'd soon starve without weak old people to feed off.

 

[Doodler]

Nope.

There'd be no pensioners for them to prey on. They'd soon starve without weak old people to feed off.

Provided they survived London being MIRVed, the Vincents would find that most of their potential criminal rivals had been vaporised. Survivors would be weak and disoriented.

With London gone, the tribal fiefdom of Vincentia would have to expand eastwards towards north Kent and the Medway towns.

 

[existentialist]

Provided they survived London being MIRVed, the Vincents would find that most of their potential criminal rivals had been vaporised. Survivors would be weak and disoriented.

With London gone, the tribal fiefdom of Vincentia would have to expand eastwards towards north Kent and the Medway towns.

Remember, these aren't clever criminals. They're scammers, fraudsters, bullies, and thieves, the kind of people whose idea of a good crime is a bit of aggravated burglary. There are far better criminals out there who are a lot further up the food chain than that collection of pond life. They wouldn't stand a chance.

 

[Doodler]

Remember, these aren't clever criminals. They're scammers, fraudsters, bullies, and thieves, the kind of people whose idea of a good crime is a bit of aggravated burglary. There are far better criminals out there who are a lot further up the food chain than that collection of pond life. They wouldn't stand a chance.

Their low cunning and numbers would be sufficient to seize and defend the Hoo Peninsula. Slave labour and goods looted from the Bluewater shopping centre and the Gravesend branch of Wickes would construct a gaudy, ramshackle manor house for them. Raiding parties would be sent to the Isle of Sheppey but with their eyes on a greater long-term prize: Whitstable.

 

[Gromit]

Their low cunning and numbers would be sufficient to seize and defend the Hoo Peninsula, making it their redoubt from which they could send raiding parties to the Isle of Sheppey but with their eyes on a greater prize: Whitstable.

They'd be more likely to buy (with menaces) the Isle of Dogs for 2 goats and sell it on later for 6 cows (even though they've let the place go to the dogs).