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Witnesses Abbie Dosell
Kn i f ec r i meh a sb e c o meap a r to f mo d e r nd a ywe s t e r ns o c i e t y , mu r d e ri so c c u r i n gd a i l yo nt h es t r e e t so f Br i t a i na n da sas o c i e t ywe a r eb e c o mi n gd e s e n s i t i s e dt os u c hv i o l e n c e . Kn i f ec r i mei so nt h e i n c r e a s ei nt h eUKa n dma n yi n c i d e n t sa r eh a p p e n i n gal o tc l o s e rt o h o met h a nf i r s tr e a l i s e d . ‘ Wi t n e s s e s ’ e x a mi n e swh a th a p p e n sa f t e rt h ep o l i c et a p ei sg o n e ; wi t ha l l i ma g e st a k e na ts i t e so f f a t a l s t a b b i n g s , wes e eh o wl i f e c o n t i n u e sa sn o r ma l wi t hv e r yl i t t l er e c o l l e c t i o no f -o rt r i b u t et o t h eh o r r o r st h a th a v eo c c u r e do nt h eg r o u n dt h a tt h es u b j e c t st r e a d . Th i sb o o ki sas ma l l r e mi n d e ro f t h el i v e sl o s t , a n df o r g o t t e n , i na s o c i e t yt h a ta p p e a r st on ol o n g e rn o t i c e .
Union Passage, Birmingham - 11th January 2013, 6pm.
“It is believed there are potentially hundreds of people who may have seen the incident or the offender leave the scene following the incident and police are urging people to come forward as they may have vital information.��
China Red Nightclub, Birmingham - 23rd June 2013, 4am.
“Officers have cordoned off an area on Ladywell walk whilst the assault is investigated, early indications suggest that this was not a random attack.�
Liverpool Street, London - February 24th 2014, 2pm.
“He didn’t look too good. He was holding the left side of his stomach and there was a lot of blood everywhere.”
Oxford Street, London - 26th December 2011, 1.45pm.
“He died at the scene at around 1.45pm, the latest victim of London’s senseless gang violence. ”
Lower High St, Cheltenham - 19th April 2011, 2.35am.
“To bring it home to all of us, every week in England the equivalent of a whole school class, more than 20 children, turn up in hospital with stab wounds.Too many people, young and old, have become immune to the latest news of a knife murder. People aren’t shocked any more about the stabbing of a child and that’s not right.” – Brooke Kinsella
The Q Club, Birmingham - 17th August 2008, 6am.
“Desperate friends bundled Mr Sutherland into their car and drove him to Sandwell General Hospital but doctors were unable to save him.�
No. 9 Bus, Hagley Road, Birmingham - 7th March 2014, 8am.
“Christina, 16, screamed,‘I can’t breathe, I’ve been stabbed’ as she began losing blood. The knife punctured her lung and she died at the scene”
Wayne Busst, 32 Ian Watson Gladwish, 31 Mathew Sutherland, 29 Seydou Diarrassouba, 18 Christina Edkins, 16 Jay Whitson, 17 Sean Noctor, Nocto 24 Julian Knight, 16 Luke Walmsley, 14 Lucy Braham, 25 Anthony Walker, 18 Daniel Pollen, 20 Kriss Donald, 15 Kodjo Yenga, 16 Damian Muir, 34 David Maxwell, 18 Charlie Burns, 19 David Headlam, 18 James Hunter, 18 Jamil Palmer, 18 Alim Uddin, Uddin 17 Joshua Folkes, 17 Fico Dougan, 16 Ajmol Alom, 16 Champion Ganda, 17 Derek Boateng, 16 Peter Hagan, 16 Dogan Ismail, Ismail 17
Thomas James Overton, 18 Nathaniel Brown, 16 Danny O’Shea, 18 Leroy James, 14 Kelvin Chibueze, 17 Negus McClean, 15 Daniel Thompson, 18 Kasey Gordon, 15 Leighann Duffy, 26 Ikram Ullah Khan, 28 Adam Wilson, 25 Kirsty Wright, 21 Ben Kinsella, 16 Adrian Young, 24 Ad Francis Ntena, 31 Nicolas Pearton, 16 Aliza Mirza, 18 Wesley Stirling, 16 Godwin Nii Lawson, 17 Michael McCarthy, 19 Carl Asiedu, 19 Jahmal Mason-Blair, 17 Adaim Pervaiz, 18 Michael Wright, 17 Steven Lewis, 15 Craig Marshall, 19 Shaquille Smith, 14 Hendricks, 18 Charles Hend
“Words cant describe how I feel right now. Rest In Peace to one of my best friends. God gained an amazing angel tonight, you will be missed man.�
Our dead are never dead, until we have forgotten them.
Š Abbie Dosell 2014.