[Mousey]

I just saw this on the news with my parents, god the UK is going absolutely bloody insane it's genuinely terrifying, i live in west yorkshire which is pretty far away from london but there's no reason to suspect this kinda stuff couldn't happen up here, there are gangs, and gangs with knives up here.
This is really starting to get out of hand, what the fuck is happening to this country?

Originally Posted by The Assosciated Press: Stabbing deaths of French Students shock London

The two young Frenchmen, promising research students at one of Britain's top universities, had been bound and stabbed repeatedly in the head, neck and torso before their bodies were doused in fuel and set alight. A senior Scotland Yard detective said their wounds were the worst he had ever seen.


Even for a city assailed almost daily by reports of knife crime, this was shocking — a seemingly senseless burst of brutality reminiscent of a Quentin Tarantino film. No one has been charged in the June 29 deaths that horrified people on both sides of the English Channel, and prompted some French journalists to depict London as a city of mean streets, rampant crime and "no-go" areas.


On Tuesday, bouquets of flowers lay behind police tape outside the brick townhouse where Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez, both 23, were killed. One note expressed hope that they had not died in vain: "Maybe something will be done," it said.
Detectives were questioning a 33-year-old man who surrendered Monday after police released a description of a man seen running from the area on the day of the killings. The suspect, who has not been named, was treated in hospital for burns after this arrest.


Detective Chief Inspector Mick Duthie of London's Metropolitan Police said the students were subjected to "a frenzied, horrible, horrific attack."
"I have never seen injuries like this throughout my career," he said.
Police have found no obvious motive for the killings. They say the two bioengineering students, who were on three-month research placements at London's Imperial College, were talented academics and had not been involved in criminal activity.


On June 29, Ferez visited Bonomo's apartment in the New Cross area of south London. That night, neighbors called police when they heard what sounded like an explosion and saw the ground-floor apartment ablaze. Police initially thought the men died in the fire, but autopsies showed they had been stabbed to death. Bonomo had almost 200 wounds, Ferez almost 50. Police believe some of the injuries were inflicted after they died.
One theory is that the men were victims of mistaken identity, or of a robbery gone wrong. Police are trying to trace two Sony PlayStation consoles they believe were taken from the apartment. They are also investigating possible links between the deaths and a robbery at the apartment a week earlier in which a laptop computer was stolen.


David Nias, a clinical psychologist who has studied criminals, said the level of violence was "way over the top for a burglary" and pointed to a sadistic killer who may have murdered before.


"A first offender would be more restrained or inhibited," he said. "These sort of incidents are very, very rare. That's what makes it difficult for the police.""

Jesus, poor guys. All that for 2 Playstations, the world's gone utterly insane

[MIG-31]

I seen that earlier this week,it is so sick to believe how sad things are getting in the uk..

Also within a 3 mile radius of my home,another youth was stabbed last night and later died from the wounds..

Its getting pretty scarry lately.

[BlueMak]

One reason I am glad I am (well, not right now obviously) in a beautiful remote town of Wales. This shit doesn't happen there.

London is completely fucked up lately as some of the major cities in the UK. Perhaps if murderers would get more than 6 months jail time it would help a bit. (I know it is not 6 months)

[IEMC]

Damn. I see more and more of this in the UK.

I'm lucky I live outside of Detroit, Michigan. Only 700 murders a year!

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[OmegaRED]

I hope the next GTA game goes back to London because it's quickly becoming the new murder capital and the entertainment industry needs to catch up.

Even Austin Powers would ask to be refrozen if he was woken up these days

[Falstaff]

London is relatively tame compared to my own town. It is a tragedy, but the UK is no different from any other country.

[Callandor]

When I was in school there was a guy in my class who knew how to use a butterfly knife like you and I know how to use a butter knife and this other guy stabbed some guy to death in the neck and he was arrested and last I heard has been a jail bird ever since and all sorts of other scary things did I experience/happened. But that's what you get at a government school sometimes so it was no wonder though it seems even private schools are becoming like government schools these days what with all the drugs and all.

[Callandor]

Originally Posted by IEMC

Damn. I see more and more of this in the UK.

I'm lucky I live outside of Detroit, Michigan. Only 700 murders a year!

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I've moved back to my native Saskatoon, but the crime rate here has gone up quite a bit in recent years, there was even this story about a 14 year old boy being killed by his friends at some abandoned cabin or something here in Saskatchewan. Just got to get your gun license and be vigilant if you're a young person these days if you ask me. Shoot them in the leg a couple of times first to avoid a possible law suite against you however lol.