LEYTONSTONE: '15 involved' in stabbing (From East London and West Essex Guardian Series)

What's the betting no-one witnessed this incident - allegedly?

please can somone tell me why all these stabbings are not making national news.ill give my thought maybe cause the games are coming very near leytonstone.are stabbings just becoming the norm.what about the stabbings we dont hear about.anyone else think the same

georgey wrote:
please can somone tell me why all these stabbings are not making national news.ill give my thought maybe cause the games are coming very near leytonstone.are stabbings just becoming the norm.what about the stabbings we dont hear about.anyone else think the same

They make the news sometines, but on the whole you seem to be right. What influence the Olympics has on anythig is hard to tell. Probably not all that much. I suppose people just think - 'its Waltham Forest, what can you expect?'

The whole situation is very dispiriting, not helped by all the lies and spin we've had to endure in the last few yeasr about how things were all getting better when the ordinary man and woman in the street can see it hasn't really.

It is probably not news any more that the police lost contol of the issue round here some time ago and that there now is an entrenched gang culture in parts of this borough (as in some other parts of London, it should be said). Now we also have the Ministry of Justice telling the world that law and porder doesn't matter round here and they are going to shut the magistrates' court. It seems as if no-one could care less. A pity really, but with a corrupted council which seems willing to tolerate criminality at its very own heart, I do not expect a lead to be taken on restoring the rule of law from that source or things to change very much any time soon. The authorities seem to be in denial.

Ordinary citizens round here are going to have to be brave enough to get together to insist on better local government and services which really believe in upholding the rule of law, or if things carry on as they are, in a few years time it will be 'sauve qui peut'.

Of course it was gang related what a load of claptrap. I have spoken to plenty of people hwo saw it and said it was awful. When is the police, council and government going to do something about it. I agree with the above comment what's going to happen when the olympics come. This place is fast becoming a ghetto!