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Thread ID: 19716 | Posts: 8 | Started: 2005-08-18
2005-08-18 16:10 | User Profile
[QUOTE][url]http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1731763,00.html[/url]
[SIZE=4]'Jack rolling' link to rape gang[/SIZE] By Ben Hoyle [I]Rapists who are terrorising a town may have brought their violent tactic from South Africa[/I]
A STRING of rapes in Northampton may mark the arrival in Britain of a notorious South African violent crime known as [I]jack rolling[/I].
Police have warned women not to go out alone at night after five attacks in nine days by a gang who cruise the town centre in two cars.
Jack rolling became notorious in South Africa during the 1990s, when gangs of youths in cars blocked off streets and raped every woman caught in their net.
Three women have been grabbed from the street and raped since July 31, while two more have escaped in a town where “stranger rape” is almost unknown. A climate of fear has taken hold since the latest rape, which came to light when the 30-year-old victim was found with head injuries near a housing estate in the early hours of Monday.
A blue BMW 7 Series with cream leather seats and a white or silver Fiat Punto were between them involved in three of the incidents.
On one occasion, when they appeared together, the driver of the BMW distracted the 18-year-old victim while a passenger from the Fiat bundled her into the back of the BMW. She was then driven to a remote spot on the outskirts of town and raped.
Northamptonshire Police said yesterday that this was a tactic familiar in South Africa and lent further credence to the victims’ reports that the three men involved in the attacks were black and spoke with South African accents.
Detective Chief Inspector John Jones, who is leading the investigation, said: “I may be getting in touch with colleagues in the South African police to see if there’s a trait here.”
Tracking down the cars remained the primary focus of the investigation rather than pinning down the rapists’ nationality, he said.
Thirty police officers are involved in the investigation, 20 of whom are deployed on the streets in and around Northampton.
Yesterday they were stopping and searching cars identified on closed-circuit television using numberplate recognition technology. Specialists from the National Crime and Operations Faculty have also joined the team to assist with forensic work and criminal profiling. Mr Jones said last night that he was very confident of solving the case, even though little useful CCTV footage had been recovered.
“The phone hasn’t stopped ringing with people giving us little nuggets and the odd golden nugget,” he said. “With all the information that we’ve got I’m quite happy to put CCTV on the backburner.”
He said that he was keeping an open mind as to whether the rapists were from Northampton or drove in from elsewhere.
Four of the five victims were initially approached in and around Northampton’s rowdy pub and club quarter. Drunk women can be seen drifting home on their own in the early hours of most mornings, according to Helen Grattan, the manager of The Auctioneer’s pub on Drapery.
“I wouldn’t walk around here on my own at night,” she said. “There’s a lot of dark alleyways that girls could be pulled down and a lot of shady people hanging around on street corners.
“A lot of the women here are really worried now. Last night was dead and it’s normally a really busy one for us.”
Michelle Felton, 27, walked home alone in the early hours the night after the most recent attack. “I went right past where the girl who was clubbed over the head was found but I didn’t know it then. I wouldn’t now — my Mum would kill me.” [/QUOTE]
......[I][B]lent further credence to the victims’ reports[/B] that the three men involved in the attacks were black and spoke with South African accents. [/I]
Amazing, innit? - that the assailant descriptions provided by the actual raped women would be treated as uncorroborated hearsay [U]because they identified their rapists as black Africans[/U].
Somebody remind me again of what it is exactly that blacks contribute to civilization - anywhere - that keeps the white world on Permanent Tenterhooks, lest they potentially give offense. Sure, they gave us the comb, the refrigerator and the microprocessor....but I mean [I]since [/I] 1850.
2005-08-18 16:14 | User Profile
I've never seen white people hate themselves with as much fervor as the Brits.
2005-08-18 16:19 | User Profile
[QUOTE=il ragno]......[I][B]lent further credence to the victimsââ¬â¢ reports[/B] that the three men involved in the attacks were black and spoke with South African accents. [/I]
Amazing, innit? - that the assailant descriptions provided by the actual raped women would be treated as uncorroborated hearsay [U]because they identified their rapists as black Africans[/U]. I guess some people find the idea of blacks committing crimes just too far-fetched.
2005-08-18 16:31 | User Profile
[quote=il ragno]Somebody remind me again of what it is exactly that blacks contribute to civilization - anywhere - that keeps the white world on Permanent Tenterhooks, lest they potentially give offense.
My opinion is that any race that proudly (with a few tiny exceptions) proclaims rap as a part of their culture cannot legitimately claim to be offended by anything.
Now as to why wiggers soak up the rap culture is a whole 'nother kettle of fish, but I surmise that it has something to do with...
white people hat[ing] themselves..
in addition to a relentless promotion 24/7 in the media that thug culture is the essence of coolness, while "acting white" (you know; learning, paying your bills, being responsible for your own children) is protrayed as the most backwards of reversions to Victorian repression and just plain goofy.
[quote=il ragno]Amazing, innit? - that the assailant descriptions provided by the actual raped women would be treated as uncorroborated hearsay because they identified their rapists as black Africans.
Well, naturally! I mean for every actual, incredibly rare rape by a black male, there are hundreds, nay, thousands of Susan Smiths out there ready to blame their own crimes and failings on the long-suffering black male, who, even if he did do it, is just reacting instinctively to the opression foisted on him by the inherent, institutionally racist system of free government cheese, affirmative action and section 8 housing. Fight the power!
I learned these salient facts by reading the New York Times.
2005-08-18 17:16 | User Profile
[QUOTE=il ragno]......[I][B]lent further credence to the victims’ reports[/B] that the three men involved in the attacks were black and spoke with South African accents. [/I][/QUOTE]Sloppy writing, no doubt. Of course the rapists were black, but could the victims correctly identify a South African accent?
At least The Times mentioned race. At lot of American newspapers won't do that, even when the criminals are still on the loose.
2005-08-18 17:29 | User Profile
Yes, in a time when nothing should shock, some things still do.
2005-08-18 17:32 | User Profile
That occurred to me, too, Stanley, but this is [I]The Times[/I]....
2005-08-18 17:54 | User Profile
[QUOTE=il ragno]Somebody remind me again of what it is exactly that blacks contribute to civilization[/QUOTE]It wouldn't be "Cool Britannia" without the blacks -- oops, I mean African-Britons. :blush: